(The following people are listed as collaborators on one or more of The Brotherhood installations: Russ Gritzo, Bruce Hamilton, Don Buchla, Tom Joyce, Aaron Davidson, Thomas Ashcraft, Roderick Peyketewa, Steina, Susan Hamilton, Jamie Hamilton, Van Baer, Tom Demeyer, Rutt/Etra)

“For a long, long time I took asylum in formalist preoccupation, in the phenomenology of video and electronic sound. But, of course, it all had to come back at me. And now I have to deal with my own background: its conscious/unconscious, planned/unplanned. But it is the only thing I find worthwhile, and it is at this time linked to what I call “The Brotherhood,” where it manifests most critically and clearly in a complex of male conspiracy that is very hard to define … In the surplus technology graveyards, where I scout for stuff, I come across whole systems, or at least subsystems, that become the physical platforms for my installations: celestial navigators for airplanes, targeting tables used by the navy, a bombing rack. These devices have some kind of past, usually the sinister mythology of what might be called the intelligence of the machine.”

“What I do as a machinist is to integrate or include all cultural coding systems: text, sound, camera view, physical motion, choreographic gesture, interactive strategies. My work is about ideal, abstract transformations from one code to another. Unlike the industrial or engineering approach, which has a fundamentally defined task to solve, I am not solving anything, I am interpreting. I am trying to look at all this as a product of culture within the dimensions of art. It is the proximity of my investigation or construction to art that is the relation I prefer. In fact, what I have been doing all my life has been labeled “art.” I have no particular claim to that being true, yet I do like the asylum of art. In my heart, art is the only thing I’m interested in.”