On a biotechnological intervention by Eduardo Kac Steve Tomasula Part installation, part memory, part spectacle, Time Capsule was realized on Brazilian television and over the Internet in 1997 by the living artist Eduardo Kac and by the dead, living before 1939 in Poland.
Nazi troops invade Poland.
November 11, 1997. These sepia-toned photos are some of the few possessions she managed to escape with, passed on to Kac. He calls them time capsules for the memories they hold. Viewers at home see Kac before the photos, sitting on a medical examination table, his bare leg waiting to receive a bio-implant that will allow him to be registered with an American company as the owner of himself. TV cameras crowd in, their lights bright as the halogen noon above an operating table.