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The bizarre things people do in the name of art. Like, for example, jamming a functioning computer into the carcass of a frog, then suspending said frog in clear liquid. We've decided to spare you the more graphic pictures. Of course, stuffing dead animals with inappropriate objects and displaying them is old hat. The trick to making an art installation truly unwholesome is to add interactivity.
As we said, that computer stuffed in there isn't just for show -- it's a working Web server. PCs set up at the installation can visit a page hosted from inside the frog's abdomen where users can control the frog's legs, and watch on a Web cam while the dead animal twitches.
The exhibit is an experiment in Galvanism, which refers to Luigi Galvani, who way back in 1786 made the legs of a dead frog jolt just by touching muscles and nerves with metal.
We call it an experiment in necro-masochism.
From Gizmo Watch
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Subscribe to commentslincoln yacoAug 11th 2007 4:08PM
This is art. You may not like it but that has nothing to do with the issue at hand. This is art. It might be BAD art. It might be GOOD art. It might be middlebrow art. But it's art, alright. As for some of these e-mails, are they valid criticisms? Well, they might be good crits, they might be bad crits, bad at the very least, can we at least qualify them as valid crits? Do you think some of these e-mails are more about the me-me-me of the people who wrote them than about the art? Cast your vote!
LejaOct 14th 2007 2:20PM
THIS is hardly Art. I'm sorry. I think it's disgusting how people do crap like this and then go under the guise of it being "Art" to get away with such vile displays. Gives TRUE artists a bad rap.