User:Garnethertz
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[edit] Most Recent Claim to Fame
As of this moment, you might now me as "the guy who built the cockroach controlled mobile robot".
[edit] Bio
Here's my standard official blurbage: Garnet Hertz is 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. He holds an MFA from the Arts Computation Engineering program at UCI and has completed UCI's Critical Theory Emphasis. My current interests include the history, theory and practice of electro/mechanical art, computing, media theory, digital/internet art and robotics. He has shown his work at several notable international venues including Ars Electronica and SIGGRAPH and is also founder of Dorkbot-Socal, a monthly Los Angeles-based lecture series on electronic art. Popular press about his work is widespread, disseminating through 25 countries including The New York Times, Wired News, I.D. Magazine, The Washington Post, Slashdot, NPR, USA Today, NBC, CBS, TV Tokyo, ZDTV and CNN Headline News.
[edit] Wikipedia and I
I don't frequently make contributions or edits to Wikipedia: I'm more likely to be updating my webpage or wasting time in brainless forms of social networking.
I'm referenced in a few Wikipedia pages, including Galvanism, Dead Media Project and fly - and I used to be on cockroach but I think that was deleted by someone a while ago.
[edit] Previous Research Interests
- Human-made semi-living / synthetic (simulated) beings: golem, zombie, galvanism, automata, robot, cyborg, simulacra, animats, GMOs. The history of this human Promethean pursuit, viewed as an ancient (and contemporary) creative endeavour.
- Luigi Galvani, Animal Electricity, Theology of Electricity, Victorian Science
- Server-as-object, Miniature/Pervasive/Wearable Computing
- Internet Activity as a Collective Energy/Mass, Potential Physical Energy
- Datastreams, Invisible Signals, Actualizing Network Activity + Visualizing the Network
- Telepresence, Telematics
- Technological Subversions: Misuse, Analog / Digital Hacks, DIY, Inefficiency/Malfunction, Lateral Thinking
- Moist media, Biomimetics, Cybernetics, Micromechanics, Muscle-as-actuator, Biorobotics
- Cross-disciplinary research policy, ethology
- History of Art and Technology
