Toni Dove on 'Sunjammer 6: A Tale Blown by a Solar Breeze'
Join innovating artist Toni Dove to explore Sunjammer 6, her immersive work, and the augmented-reality 3D book that brings its world into unexpected dimensions.
In this talk, she presents her AR pages live, blending age-old book arts practices with AR, VR and digital tools and blurring the line between fine art and performing arts.
Sunjammer 6: A Tale Blown by a Solar Breeze is a love story, a conversation between two virtual characters connecting across time, each pushing back against an encroaching dark age. Hypatia, a mathematician and astronomer assassinated in 415 CE returns as a furious ghost and encounters Kepler Redux, a NASA engineer in the future building an off-world power station for sustainable energy.
The book is a poetic and visual journey through a story first designed as both an installation and a performance. Sunjammer 6: A Tale Blown by a Solar Breeze is published by Scala Arts Publishers, Inc. It is 8 1/4" X 9 3/4", 112 pages, hardback with a foil-printed cover and augmented reality on 10 pages. The pages come to life in three dimensions with immersive sound when viewed through iPhone, iPad or Android devices.
Funded in part by the Roesch Family Fund in Support of the Hopkins Center's Visiting Performing Artists Program.
Toni Dove is an instrument builder. She creates human-operated machines that tell stories. An early innovator in interactive narrative, she is known for genre mashing stories that employ interactivity as metaphor to create visceral experiences and examine the implications of technological change. Her disruptive practice, developed over years, has created media machines that blur the boundaries between performance and installation and fuse film, game, experimental theater and artificial intelligence-based interaction. Her work has been presented in the US, Europe and Canada, including the Banff Center for the Arts, The Rotterdam Film festival, The Wexner Center, Redcat, The Kitchen, and ZKM. Dove received the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts from M.I.T. and a lifetime achievement award from I.D.M.A.a. The Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida presented a retrospective of Dove's interactive work "Embodied Machines" in 2018. Dove's current project "Sunjammer 6: A Tale Blown by a Solar Breeze" is supported by NYSCA, NEA, Duke PATL, Residencies at Bell Labs E.A.T., Pioneer Works, and previewed Jan. 2026, The Schwarzman Center for the Arts at Yale. It will go to the McNay Museum of Contemporary Art, San Antonio, 2026/27. An augmented reality book on the project published by Scala will be released Fall 2026. Dove is a fellow at C.C.A.M., Yale University and Artist in Residence 2026-2027 at The Yale Quantum Institute.
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