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The modern study of galvanic effects is called '' into action'. Many Victorian scientists believed that if the right amount of electricity was charged into the brain, the corpse would come back to life. The concept of galvanism was recently explored in contemporary art by Canadian artist Garnet Hertz, with his piece ''Experiments in Galvanism''. A miniature web server was implanted in the body of a frog specimen, which was suspended in a clear glass container. Through an ethernet cable connected to the embedded web server, remote viewers could trigger movement in either the right or left leg of the frog, thereby updating Luigi Galvani's original 1786 experiment causing the legs of a dead frog to twitch simply by touching muscles and nerves with metal. Although, some may say from viewing the artist's website it is debatable that any true galvanic action is taking place. It appears to simply be two small motors/actuators that physically move the frog's legs. REFERENCES SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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