Toxi•City

Toxi•City is a combinatory piece in which narrative segments and a chorus of historical anecdotes chronicling deaths from Hurricane Sandy are drawn from a data-based of materials. The database contains over one hour of materials and the clips are combined based on keywords. In Toxi•City, 6 characters describe conditions living in a future shaped by global warming and climate change. The film takes place in the industrial river setting on the US east coast. (Source: Author's description)

Research Collection that references this work:

Title
Electronic Literature, Chapter 7: Divergent Streams

Critical writing that references this work:

Title	Author	Year
Addressing Significant Societal Challenges Through Critical Digital Media	Scott Rettberg, Roderick Coover	2020
Electronic Literature	Scott Rettberg	2018
Electronic Literature's Past and Future	Scott Rettberg	2019
Electronic Literature: Archiving, History, and Potentiality	Scott Rettberg, Nicola Piras, Elisa Gorgaini	2019
Something there badly not wrong: the life and death of literary form in databases	Joseph Tabbi	2020
The Metainterface: The art of platforms, cities and clouds	Søren Bro Pold, Christian Ulrik Andersen	2018

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12mins Toxicity Sample

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Alvaro Seica