Toni Dove is an instrument builder. She creates human operated machines that tell stories. An early innovator of responsive narrative, she is known for genre mashing stories that use interactivity as metaphor to create visceral experience 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, Fla., presented a retrospective of Dove's interactive work "Embodied Machines", 2018. Her current project "Sunjammer 6: A Tale Blown by a Solar Breeze" is supported by NYSCA, NEA, The Doris Duke Foundation, residencies with Bell Labs E.

A.T., and Pioneer Works and opens to the public Jan. 2026, The Schwarzman Center for the Arts at Yale. Dove is a fellow at C.C.A.M.

, Yale University.