This piece is a study in emergent communal behavior. Three mobile, untethered machines communicate over a wireless network. Each machine is Linux host; their external environment being percieved through a directable digital camera and ultrasonic rangefinder. The machines, while sharing common means of communication and perception, must have different experiences. It is each other's idiosyncratic storytelling that drives the work.
The machines are free to wander the gallery analyzing their observations and reporting to each other "interesting" and "signifigant" phenomena. A codified history accumulates; This evolving history, it's behavioral effect and the current dialect of intercommunication, becomes a living, evolving culture.
A fourth computer running an http browser allows observers to explore the record, and present state, of machine society.