Harvard Time Capsule
Graphic by Meena Behringer
The “Harvard Time Capsule,” created by Andrew Zolty, who goes by his artist name BREAKFAST, in 2020, is an interactive kinetic art installation that captures video snippets of those who encounter and interact with it. The exhibition is located on the first floor of the Science & Engineering Complex and uses over 23,000 custom-engineered bi-directional Flip-Discs to record short videos of visitors as they approach it so it may replay their moving silhouettes on its surface. All interactions are stored within the Time Capsule, replayed across the surface over time, to show the collective memory of all who have engaged with it. Below are examples of such.
Meena Behringer ’27 (meenabehringer@college.harvard.edu) is the Arts Editor of the Independent.