The project title, “The Queen and the Gnome,” references the queen ant of an Atta colony and the information encoded in the genome of the ant’s microbial flora.  The interactive film integrates footage of ants carrying disproportionate loads of leaf cuttings to their nest, information about the fungus grown by the ants, and social data about the ant colony.  The project ties creative and intellectual inquiries to audience interaction:  viewers’ coordinated movements, detected by sensors, determine the progression of the narrative.  Analogous to the collective efforts of the Atta, viewers must move in unison in order for the narrative to develop.