Toni Dove (Video)

Toni Dove is a video artist who lives and works in New York since the early 1990s. While studying Dove's work, i noticed that she only casts women in her work. She wanted all the emphasis to be on female characters and the roles each of them play in the different times of their lives. In the video that I have displayed above, Dove describes how she creates her work in her videos. The work that she is describing is one of her most famous pieces, "Ghosts". The name came about due to the ghostly qualities that the characters displayed, in the way that the characters are somewhat see through and can walk through anything.

In the picture that I have displayed above is from Dove's piece Artificial Changelings, produced in 1998. The photo was composed of interactive laser disk and sound installation while using video motion sensing. Each of Dove's works tell a story and our ongoing from one piece of work to the next. In Artificial Changelings, Dove deals with the emergence of compulsive consumerism. Spectoria is the next video that Dove produces and this one deals with the capitalist society of the early 20th century. I feel that throughout Dove's work, she likes to create a series of images that creates one big narrative. Bunt in order to get the big picture which is the narrative, you must study the images and put them all together. It is like a math problem that needs to be solved.