When empathy for electronics meets melancholic snooping, the upshot bound to be truly artistic. Garnet Hertz’s Experiments in Galvanism is the zenith of studio and gallery tests in which a tiny computer is implanted into the dead body of a frog specimen. The frog is hovering in clear liquid inside a glass cube, with a blue Ethernet cable attached to its open abdomen.
Technically speaking, Garnet Hertz has affixed a miniature web server in the body of a frog specimen and a website allows users to generate physical movement in the corpse of the frog. The frog can be seen on the internet and on the computer screen placed in the room, thanks to a webcam placed on the wall of the gallery.
The remote viewers can set off movement in either the right or left leg of the frog. Back in 1786, Luigi Galvani made the legs of a dead frog to jolt just by touching muscles and nerves with metal. Experiments in Galvanism are both a reference to the origins of electricity and bio (tech) art.
Via: Conceptlab
