“The tables of The Brotherhood, with their automated parts, moving mechanisms, image screens of war, and insistence on viewer interaction, are also about exposing the narrative of artificial intelligence. On the one hand, Woody is lovingly crafting machines that intrigue, demand, and perform; on the other hand, he is actively working against a simple notion of machine intelligence, whether it be the concept of a "smart" weapon or a "thinking" computer. Yet, these tables are also exquisite tributes to the intricacies of the machine itself, in the pleasures of their mechanisms, and in their bridging of the optical, the electronic, and the mechanical.”