Poetic, immersive artist’s book blending narrative, technology, and resistance across time and space.

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.