In 1985 he was awarded a research grant from the Mellon Foundation as a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies in Art and Technology at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he was working on his MFA degree. In 1994 with a host of other artists and engineers he collaborated with Muntadas in creating the Fileroom, one of the first on-line artworks. As a visiting artist at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, in 1996, he exhibited his suite of digital images "Deadpan, or the Holy Toast" and chaired a panel on "The Colonization of Cyberspace," a topic explored by seven artists in "The Homestead/La Finca," a WWW installation he designed and curated. He has exhibited his work in Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Center, in ISEA95, ISEA97, and SIGGRAPH99, where he was also a panelist for "Algorithmics and Patterns from Life." For Chicago's Project Millennium he curated a show of new media art, "Second Nature," at the Ukrainian Museum of Modern Art. His essay on the poetics of intermedia, "Synesthetic Art, an Imaginary Number?" was published in the "Synesthesia and Intersense" section of Leonardo, v32-5, 1999. Currently he is working on a multimedia performance work, "Fool's Paradise," a collaborative effort funded by a grant from the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts at Northwestern University. Email: paul-hertz@northwestern.edu.