Time Machines, Quantum Temporal Deformations and Escaping Linear Chronology Across Media Arts

Guest Editors:
Michael Goddard, James Burton, Aleena Chia
Vol. 6 | No. 1 | 2025

ISSN 2691-1566

INTRODUCTION

Time Machines, Quantum Temporal Deformations, and Escaping Linear Chronology Across Media Arts
Michael Goddard, James Burton, Aleena Chia

Articles

What Is a (Sonic) Time Machine? From Dark and Black Quantum Futurism to Coil’s Time Machines Project and La Dispute’s “King Park”
Michael Goddard

Bill & Ted’s Retcon Adventures: The Do-it-Later Retroactive Solution
Leiya Lee

Hito Steyerl: In Search of a Future Garden
Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė

The Network in Fairyland: Temporal Spatialization in Digital Media and Pinterest
Camille Coy

Practice-based studies

Ouroboros Time Machine: AI & Lost Films from Hollywood’s Golden Age(s)
Emma Piper-Burket

The Time-Loop: Cycles of Play and Inequality
Daniel O’Brien

“Tell me what you mean by being new?”: Exploring the Deleuzian Sense of Aion and the Unthought in the Topological Space of an Ozu-esque Film
Masayuki Iwase

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Cover Image: Emma Piper-Burket
Cover design: Mani Mehrvarz
Copyediting: Nancy Davis

Acknowledgment: MAST wishes to thank all the anonymous reviewers for their careful reading of the manuscripts and their many insightful comments and suggestions.