MISSION ETERNITY, DIGITAL AND MORTAL REMAINS OF TIMOTHY LEARY

ETOY.CORPORATION

Mission Eternity is a bridge that connects human memory space with electric impulses and mortal remains, life with death and art with technology. The goal is to collect, store and process information of human beings before and after they pass away and to suggest sculptural objects reflecting/extending this infosphere: visual information, the voices of the dead, statistics and ascii text collected from governmental databases, family records and online sources. Mission Eternity Pilots cross the ultimate boundary to investigate afterlife, the most virtual of all worlds and explore the artistic portrait for the information society. The work plays with light, fragile colours, focus, distance, loss and the human brain’s very special capacity to compensate missing parts of human faces. Pilot Timothy Leary (1920-1996) left etoy a large collection of documents and 32g of mortal remains that were integrated into the system on May 26, 2007.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

etoy.Corporation is art and invests all resources in the production of art beyond traditional dimensions. Their aim is to take the resources and legal framework of our time to create a corporate sculpture - a private held shareholder company registered in Zug/Switzerland. The company issues etoy. SHARES to compensate its artists, investors, collectors and supporters. etoy - founded in 1994 - is known for its pioneering role in internet art.