“The eulogy to the cinematic image in Art of Memory operates to finally contain the question of cinema for Woody. Since its completion in 1987, he has moved into a completely new arena of investigation, beyond the question of the code and the meanings of the image object to a concern with machine systems and their capacity to reconfigure space. In this move from cinematic space (light, shadow, and projection) to video space (the waveform and the signal) to computer-generated space (mathematical coordinates and the virtual), Woody has undertaken a systematic project of mapping. His attempts to understand machine protocol – how machine systems speak and interact with each other – have also pushed his explorations of machine agency into new territory.”