“The computer is a more effective anti-narrative tool for Woody than the camera. Ironically, his move to understand electronic redefinitions of space and to be completely rid of narrative structure has allowed for other kinds of engagements with the past. The move toward machine systems is an investigation into the ancient sciences of navigation and calibration. In both Theater of Hybrid Automata (1990) and The Brotherhood (1994-96), the military applications of these sciences are primary subtexts of the act of mapping and the designation of territory. Both works pose another register of questions about the agency of the machine and the relationship of the electronic machine to the mechanical.”