Time Capsules is a miniature infrastructure for connection and disconnection. It is both a media-archeological recovery of the raree and a ⅛”=1’ scale model of an anti-antenna for the city of Chicago. An anti-antenna is an imaginary technology used to make place possible in the 21st century. If a regular antenna connects a point in space to multiple other points in space through the reception of electromagnetic waves, an anti-antenna reconnects a point in space to its point in space by resisting those waves, the onslaught of digital distraction they sponsor, and the claim they make on time. The raree is a form of peep show that emerged in Europe in the 15th century, later spreading across the world. Most rarees were some form of ornamented wooden cabinet with one or multiple peep holes to view the inside. Peering within, the viewer found immersive tiny worlds—little vivariums composed of puppets, maquettes, pictures, and paintings. Often displayed on city streets or in carnivals, rarees were public forms of media consumption. Time Capsules is composed of six vertically stacked 2'x2’x2' frame units assembled from ½”-diameter aluminum tubes with custom black rubberized fittings at the corners of the units. Inside the frame are multiple volumes composed of faraday fabric, a composite textile that has been woven with copper thread in order to block the transmission of electromagnetic waves. Within are tiny interior worlds, cut off from the pervasiveness of digitally-regulated time. By viewing through lensed apertures in each capsule, visitors are invited to experience a different vantage of the surrounding Yates Gallery at the Chicago Cultural Center. In these views, the gallery has also been covered in faraday fabric, blurring the distinction between the inside of the capsule and the outside of the gallery. In each scene, an ill-defined reflective sphere floats in and out of the frame. Somewhat amorphous, answering to alternative physics, the slow-motion of the sphere seems to exist out of time, in order to return viewers to their time and space. Visitors are invited to engage the installation in the round—to view through peepholes in various surfaces and negotiate one another in space, as they engage the enclosed worlds within through slow and durational examination. Invited participant for SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change, the sixth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial. Exhibited in the Yates Gallery at the Chicago Cultural Center. Team: McLain Clutter, Cyrus Peñarroyo, Martin Rodriguez Jr., Nancy Lynch Year: 2025