Move a Dead Frog in Alberta

I just read this little interview with Garnet Hertz, “a Fulbright Scholar, Research Fellow at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and is a doctoral student at the University of California Irvine”. Whew, I’m tired just cutting and pasting that. Regardless, he’s something of a multimedia artist, for want of a better term.

One of his recent projects is entitled Experiments in Galvanism: Frog with Implanted Webserver:

Experiments in Galvanism is the culmination of studio and gallery experiments in which a miniature computer is implanted into the dead body of a frog specimen. Akin to Damien Hirst’s bodies in formaldehyde, the frog is suspended in clear liquid contained in a glass cube, with a blue ethernet cable leading into its splayed abdomen. The computer stores a website that enables users to trigger physical movement in the corpse: the resulting movement can be seen in gallery, and through a live streaming webcamera.

It’s decidedly creepy, but you can make the frog twitch yourself.