Toni Dove is an artist who works primarily with electronic media, including virtual reality and
interactive video laser disk installations that engage viewers in responsive and immersive narrative
environments. Spectropia is a hybrid of sci-fi and film noir, with elements of time travel and telepathy. The
story opens in the future where Spectropia, a young woman in her twenties, lives in the salvage
district of an urban center known as the Informal Sector. It’s a black market subculture of
salvage and barter where knowledge spans only a person’s experience and recorded history is
forbidden. This culture of consumption floats on islands of garbage; saving anything is
punishable by law. Spectropia is addicted to the illegal activity of collecting artifacts from the
past. Her companion, a cyborg creature called the Duck, (part human and part wireless robot)
runs a black market business in retro objects—their livelihood. The Duck is a babysitter bot, in
loco parentis, programmed by Spectropia’s father, who disappeared in time while searching for
a lost inheritance. Using a machine of her own invention to search the past for her father, she
discovers William, a man from 1931 New York City after the Great Crash. Spectropia is
accidentally transported to NYC in 1931 when her machine short circuits and she finds herself in
the body of another woman, Verna de Mott, an amateur sleuth. A mystery and a romantic
triangle unfold across centuries as two women in one body drive one man crazy.
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