For some multimedia artists and poets, the landfill and its contents are urban pastorals that define communities and shape urban real estates. The aestheticization of electronic waste, trash, and the landfill can also confront the narratives of progress and consumption practices that transform biodiverse ecologies and leave people vulnerable to toxic traces of civilization. This project explores the landfill as an environmental archive of material cultures in order to apprehend its site-specific, aesthetic, and rhetorical afterlives in new media art and poetry.⁠ To this end, this project asks: Do trash geologies provide an afterlife for new media art? What kind of persistent media is the landfill? How does new media art and poetry attend to the persistent toxicity of its materiality?