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Artwork: Time Capsule

1 page in this Web Site

Eduardo Kac
Kac began his artistic career as a traditional performance artist but eventually moved on to investigate technology artistically through an exploration of poetry.

1 audiovisual document

Eduardo Kac, Time Capsule, 1997

Eduardo Kac, Time Capsule, 1997.

Event in which a microchip (identification transponder tag) was implanted in the artist's left ankle. Tuesday, November 11, 1997, at 10:00 PM, São Paulo, Brazil. Live television broadcast of the performance produced by Canal 21 (Brazil).

Courtesy of the artist.

3 web sites

Part of Web site
Tomasula, Steve. – «Time capsule : self capsule : on a biotechnological intervention by Eduardo Kac». – Eduardo Kac. – Oak Park : E. Kac. – Originally published in 1999. {{www.ekac.org}}

Text in periodical
Tomasula, Steve. – «Time capsule : self-capsule». – Circa [on line]. – No. 89 (Fall 1999). – P. 23-25. Also available on the Internet. {{www.recirca.com}}

Text in periodical
Paul, Christiane. – «Time capsule». – Intelligent Agent. – Vol. 2, no. 2 (1998). – P. 4-13. Also available on the Internet. {{www.intelligentagent.com}}

12 documents in the collection

Book
Dixon, Steve ; Smith, Barry. – Digital performance : a history of new media in theatre, dance, performance art, and installation. – Cambridge : MIT Press, 2007. – 809 p. – (Leonardo book series).

Book
Paul, Christiane. – Digital art. – London : Thames and Hudson, 2003. – 224 p. – (World of art).

Book
Wilson, Stephen. – Information arts : intersections of art, science, and technology. – Cambridge : MIT Press, 2002. – 945 p.

1 event

Group exhibition
Electronic Maple : Human Language and Digital Culture in Contemporary Art, NY Center for Media Arts, Long Island City, N. Y., United States, May 2001.