Event DMA Lecture: Toni Dove

I attended an arts and science lecture put on by Toni Dove a few weeks ago and in it she really opened my eyes to all the different forms that art can take. Coinciding with the course theme of science and art, as well as the theme of the week, robotics and art, it really emphasized the role that technology has in progressing art forward. Technology can open so many doors for art and she is on the cutting edge of bridging that gap and producing forward thinking art. 

She is involved in a wide breadth of art projects, however during her lecture she focused on the robotic pieces and how they are triggered and trained to move. I thought that most of her work had a dark and ominous theme to it, which I think is what she was trying to go for. I found it insane the kind of technology she had developed in one of her pieces, "The Dress that Eats Souls." This dress is fourteen feet long and is supposed to mirror the movements of a person standing in front of it and essentially can think and move for itself.

Here is the picture of Toni and I after her lecture. Her lecture really demonstrated that art can come in all shapes and sizes, and what might be appealing art to some may not be to others. Art can mean something completely different things to different people and I have a lot of respect and admiration for Toni for being in such a niche area of the art community but making it work for her career for such a long time.