Technoculture
Time Capsule
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Buried at The Goat Farm Arts Center 2024
Somewhere beneath the earth at @thegoatfarm, with the help of a few good friends (thx @alliebashuk & @markfielddinatale ), I buried a time capsule to mark this moment in time. The capsule consists of three chambers, two intersecting tesseracts, one of which houses the third chamber. In the first chamber, a digital archive of my personal work, some personal artifacts and all of the collective works of @theyoungneversleep studio friends and collaborators across more than a decade or so of imagining, creation and world building.
The smallest chamber, which doubles as a camera obscura, contains water, one of the most significant mediums in the story of technological evolution. In addition to being a carrier of information about a given time or place via microorganisms and through its molecular structure and chemical composition, water has been studied and applied as a source and a medium for computation. There are many historical and modern day examples of this kind of “elemental computing”, one notable example from MIT in 2018.
The capsule was 3D printed by @ellex_swavoni The material choice was intentional as a ln acknowledgement of the current Anthropocene where human activity will leave an indelible impression in geologic time marked by materials like plastics. Considering how the longevity of plastics in the environment could be used in somewhat positive ways, by archiving the human experience. Subsequent versions of this capsule will use other materials. It’s sort of an experiment, the results of which I will likely not live to see.