A Re-enactment of The Battle of the Nile

Eyebeam resident artist: Adrianne Wortzel Team: Soyoung Park, Saki Sato, Mike Gazes A Re-enactment of The Battle of the Nile is a performance installation of reconfigured robotic toys performing seemingly military maneuvers in rigid choreographed formations. This art project explores and uses sensor and wireless communication to create clusters of entities moving in exact synchronization in response to a call to arms. The toys will consist of a quantity of 40+ Elmo TMXs stripped of their red furry coats (please see materials for images) and performing military maneuvers emulating the rigid and postured fighting strategies of the French Army under Napoleon in the 19th century. "French Egypt and American Iraq can be considered bookends on the history of modern imperialism in the Middle East. . . Excerpt: "Bush: In the Footsteps of Napoleon" By Juan Cole in Online Asia Times, August 25, 2007 URL: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IH25Ak05.html