In this rare footage from 2007, the legendary Swiss art collective Etoy presents their iconic Mission Eternity Sarcophagus — a mobile high-tech container that explores death, digital immortality, and memory in the information age.

Mission Eternity is Etoy’s ongoing art project about life after death in the digital world. When people die, their memories, stories, and data shouldn’t just disappear. Etoy wants to help “send” them into the future forever using technology and art. They create small digital capsules with a person’s important info (photos, messages, life data — only 32MB each). These files are copied again and again by thousands of volunteers (called Angels) who share space on their computers. Physical remains can also be stored in a special moving container (the Sarcophagus) that travels like a high-tech tomb. The goal is to mix real life, death, computers, and art to create a new kind of “eternal memory” that keeps traveling through time and the internet. It’s like a digital graveyard and time machine run as an art experiment since 2005.

Founded in 1994, Etoy is an award-winning European artist group known for net art, corporate satire, and groundbreaking projects like TOYWAR. They operate as etoy.CORPORATION — a real Swiss company that creates art beyond traditional boundaries.

Tweakfest 2007 was a pioneering festival for digital culture, media art, and technology in Zurich, Switzerland. It brought together artists, hackers, and tech visionaries for talks, performances, and installations.

This the 97th episode in our VTV Classics (r3) series. VTV Classics (r3) highlights the treasures of VernissageTV’s huge archive. Back then published in Standard Definition, these classics are now re-mastered, re-edited and reissued in Ultra High Definition.

VTV Classics (r3): Etoy Corporation: Mission Eternity Sarcophagus at Tweakfest (2007). Zürich (Switzerland), May 25, 2007. First published May 30, 2007. r3 Series, No. 97 / July 3, 2026.