The New River

Journal of Electronic Literature and Digital Art

“Anti-Temporal Letters”

By Andrew W. Smith

Please view this piece on a desktop / laptop sized screen using Google Chrome here.

Anti-Temporal Letters emerges from a line in the opening sequence of Janelle Monae’s music video for “Q.U.E.E.N.”. The line refers to a “Time Council and Living Museum”, a fictional organization dedicated to the capture and exhibition of time-traveling rebels. Anti-Temporal Letters riffs on this concept, imagining what those rebels may have communicated to each other across space and time. This work is interactive and not each experience is the same.

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Expansions and interconnected works to this project are on the temporal horizon. More of Andrew’s work can be found at https://awwsmith.com