The installation consists out of two parts. A viewing box with replaceable Images of a range of different objects like a chicken, a slice of bread and much more. The visitor can choose an object and while he's looking at it an eye-tracker within the viewing box records the movement of the eyes.
The second part is the robot I've built mainly out of Lego parts. It hangs on three ropes from the ceiling on top of a large pile of paper sheets. It reproduces each point the visitor has just looked at with a thick marker on the Paper by moving the same way as the eyes did.
The exhibition is open until 14/06/09. During these six weeks the robot produces a big collection of large scale images showing how objects are perceived by different people.
Monique, working for the MU, came up with "Dotje" as a nickname during the last days of building up the exhibition. It's Dutch and simply means dot but is also used as a pet name for little boys. It's quite an adequate name as during programming and building up the whole thing it truly did behave a bit stubborn from time to time.
