Twitching frog server gets called “art”

July 26th, 2007 | Category: Gadgets

Similar to the previously seen Text-o-possum, someone’s not good art project has spread, virus-like, to the Web, where we have to be subjected to its heavy-handed proclamations on the role of technology in contemporary society. that day it’s “Experiments in Galvanism”, a tiny server embedded in a dead frog, submerged in mineral oil, which is remotely made to twitch via Galvanism (the contraction of a muscle when stimulated by electric current). Of course, the piece’s creator Garnet Hertz has

a little increasingly going for him than the Text-o-possum’s architect. Firstly, besides the fact that the frog is dead, it actually does have a kind of server inside of it, and secondly, Garnet has managed to convince other society that he’s put together something legitimately special — which is half the trick of art, really. whether you had really been looking for something to wax philosophical by, hit the read link.

[Via Wired]