Hertzs installation, Fly, grants us the ability to virtually possess the body of a dead, preserved fly via web-based technology. As an off-site participant we "activate" the web server, located in the flys body, by clicking a computer mouse that correspondingly illuminates tiny LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes). The viewer of the installation bears witness to this possession.Fly sets up a "double blind" - both participant and viewer are unaware of each other except through the mindless blinking of LEDs. "It" is indeed alive- but what manner of life is pure speculation? Do the blinking LEDs indicate a transformation of perception; are we somehow made "larger" by our inhabitation of the flys body? Tele-theory seeks to dissolve time, space, and scale to create a feeling of "equidistance of everyone from everyone else, and from each of us to any world event."
http://www.conceptlab.com/fly/index.html
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