[2][3] Hertz is known for robotic artworks that are a synthesis of living insects and electronic machinery.

[10][11] His work OutRun turned an arcade video game cabinet into a street-driveable vehicle.

[20] He is also author of the academic monograph titled Art + DIY Electronics by MIT Press in the Leonardo series in 2023.

[21] The project is described by curator Tina Rivers Ryan as follows: "In this groundbreaking study, Hertz argues that the DIY electronic artists who 'kludge' their own technologies constitute an important artistic countercultural practice that is an urgent response to the escalating failures of our technological infrastructures.

[25] In 2003, Hertz won a Canada-U.S. Fulbright Award to pursue graduate studies at the University of California Irvine in an interdisciplinary program in art, computer science and engineering.