| Author/Contributor(s): | Dove, Toni |
| Publisher: | Scala |
| Date: | 10/20/2026 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
Contemporary artist Toni Dove creates media machines that blur the boundaries between performance and installation and fuse film, game, experimental theater and artificial intelligence-based interaction. This extraordinary artist’s book is a love story, a conversation between two characters connecting across time, each pushing back against an encroaching dark age. Hypatia, a Hellenistic astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher assassinated in 415 CE returns 10 years in our future as a furious ghost. As she navigates her new environment, she absorbs what has happened over time and encounters a NASA engineer building a solar array off-world power station.
The book, part of a project that includes an installation and a performance, is a poetic and dream-like experience about resistance and the consequences of the fear of knowledge. Augmented Reality adds a magical third dimension, bringing characters and scenes off the page with sound and image using a phone or tablet.