Wade writes, "A Shifting City is a generative HD video work constructed, edited and subtitled by custom software written in Python. Each day the software visits public Internet forums where members discuss their dreams and pairs relevant excerpts with parsed sentences taken from Samuel R. Delany’s 1975 novel "Dhalgren". The book describes a physically recombining city burning in the heartland of America, shrouded in smoke and inhabited with refugees both strange and familiar. Together a narrative begins to aggregate and emerges, folding the networked dreamers telematicly back into Delany’s liminal city of shifting time, place, space and identity."
