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Dotje PenPlotter contact/imprint about more images and movies programming and construction In cooperation with Christien Meindertsma, a designer from Rotterdam, I've developed an installation for her exhibition at the MU in Eindhoven (Netherlands), an exhibition hall for contemporary art and design. The exhibition was called "Makers & Spectators" and was about the human perception and the way we look at things.

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. While the visitor is looking at one of these images an eye-tracker within the viewing box records the movement of the eyes.

The second part is the robot, hanging on three ropes from the ceiling on top of a large pile of paper sheets. It reproduces each point the visitor has looked at with a thick marker on the Paper by moving the same way as the eyes did.
During six weeks the robot has produced a big amount of large scale images showing how objects were 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 it's also used as a pet name for little boys. So it's a quite adequate name as during programming and building up the whole thing it truly did behave a bit stubborn from time to time.