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This piece, 'Dialogue', used autonomous drawing machines, created from children’s toys, to explore areas within specified boundaries.  I programmed one machine with a set of basic rules to determine it's behaviour - this machine initially made a mark across the paper and then communicated it to the next machine using Bluetooth technology.  This second machine attempted to copy this mark and sent it onto the third machine, which in turn interpreted the mark and completed the chain by sending it back to the first machine. This continuous exchange should have resulted in similar drawings, however, by adopting, in part, a ‘Heath Robinson’ approach in their assembly, I could challenge the notion of the infallibility of machines and add an element of play and humour to the work. 

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'Dialogue', 2009, Motors, NXT programmable bricks, wire, plastic, ink, paper, dimensions: variable