Surfaces that See

Subjective Vision and Imagination in Gaze-Based Interaction (2004)

The project explored perceptual experiments with eye-tracking that enables feedback of the direction of the gaze to an image. The gaze is used as selective and creative input to dynamic images and figures that are made apparent in fluid media, such as random surfaces, noisy textures, and chance images. The choice of experiments was informed by art history and theory. The project explored experimentally 'gazing' as sending, and observing as active participation in the process of making the invisible visible.

This project was funded by an AHRC Innovation Award, won by the head of the project, former CCS Lecturer, Axel Roch. Other project team members were Research Assistant, Madoka Takashiro, and Research Associate, Rudolf Kaehr. For further information about the project please see the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) website.