Toni Dove is an artist whose work consists of electronic and interactive media. She is considered to be one of the creators of interactive cinema. One of Dove’s works is “The Blessed Abyss - A Tale of Unmanageable Ecstasies.” The piece uses fifteen computer programmed slide projectors, video projection and eight tracks of prerecorded sound.
The message of this work is that society governs us. Since society governs us, society also contains our drives and passions. The installation shows that desire is laid out neatly and contained. However desire bursts out and creates excess past its containers. This piece is meant to show the excess and how humans want to break out from containment. I think the message of this work is really meaningful. Humans are contained and are not able to express themselves, as they would like to. We greatly desire to break out from the confinements of society and publicly act out on our desires and I think this piece really exemplifies that.
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