Toni Dove (New York, NY), originally from Boston, began her career as a painter. In the 1980s she started to work with electronic media—visual and audio. Her credits include one-person exhibits in San Francisco and Brookline, Massachusetts; group exhibits at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, and the David Adamson Gallery in Washington, D.C. Her first major radio work, Mesmer was originally presented in 1990 as an installation in Brooklyn, New York, commissioned by Creative Time, Inc. for Art in the Anchorage.