Garnet Hertz is a Canadian media artist, Fulbright Scholar, and Research
Fellow at the California Institute for Telecommunications and
Information Technology. Hertz is currently developing his work under the
auspices of the interdisciplinary Arts/Computation/Engineering Graduate
Program at the University of California Irvine, supervised by Simon
Penny.

Garnet Hertz's works are formulations in hybridity: his current projects
involve the development of technology/life systems, incorporating embedded
webservers, miniature cameras, robotics and living organisms into uncanny,
chimeric experiments. Current theoretical interests include science, 
technology and society and the congruous historical/contemporary narrative 
of hybridity, life and embodiment.

His background includes interviews with Billy Kluver (Experiments in Art
and Technology), Mark Pauline (Survival Research Labs) and his early
experiments in DIY web-based telerobotics (1996) earned him a place in
the writings of Eduardo Kac, Edward A. Shanken and Thomas J. Campanella.
Hertz was also an active member of the 7-11 mailing list (1997), and
participated in seminal online net art projects like Homework (Bookchin)
and Desktop IS (Shulgin).

Critical responses include Artforum, CIAC Electronic Art Magazine, The
Toronto Star, The London Times and the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation. Popular press about his work is widespread, disseminating
through 25 countries including The New York Times, I.D. Magazine, The
Washington Post, USA Today, NBC, CBS, ZDTV and CNN Headline News. Garnet
Hertz can be contacted at garnet@conceptlab.com.