Sunjammer 6

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 Kepler Redux, a NASA engineer building a solar array off-world power station and running up against the remnants of the carbon fuel industry. 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…