TIME CAPSULE

Unless otherwise noticed, all photographs were taken duringthe event, on November 11, 1997.

All photographs © Eduardo Kac.

Time Capsule included a webcast (above) and a live televisionbroadcast (below).
The webcast was produced by Casa das Rosas. The broadcast was producedby Canal 21.

More pictures of the live broadcast can be seen here.

The moment of the implant. Photos: Carlos Fadon.

During the event two vans were parked outside Casa das Rosas:one, an emergency ambulance (left);
the other, a mobile broadcasting unit of the TV station Canal 21. Photos:Carlos Fadon.

After the implant, Eduardo Kac explains live what is about tohappen:
webscanning of the artist's ankle from Chicago and subsequent registration,
via the Web, of himself in an animal identification database. Photo: YugoTanaka.

Detail of the webscanning apparatus, showing the teleroboticfinger ready to push the scanner's button.
The empty area on the lower left corner of the picture is the place whereEduardo Kac placed his ankle during the event. Photo: Yugo Tanaka.

These pictures show the moment when Kac's ankle was webscanned.

Photos: Yugo Tanaka (top) and Carlos Fadon.

Detail of the Web interface of the database in which the artistregistered himself, live on television,
immediately after his microchip implant was read via the Internet fromChicago.

X-ray of Eduardo Kac's left leg made the morning after the implant.
The microchip is seen on the upper left corner of the picture.

Please click here to see a close-upof the microchip.

The gallery space where the event took place, shown here themorning after.
On the left we see the seven sepia-toned photographs.
On the right, the X-ray and an enlargement of the identification and recoverydatabase interface.
Next to the back wall we see a computer wired to the Net and hooked upto the telerobotic finger, which was left pressing the scanner. The scanner'sLCD display was left showing the number retrieved from the artist's ankle.

Photo: Carlos Fadon.