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Reflection

The piece was exhibited at Royal College of Art in February 2001. The feedback from the people was very positive. I was very positively surprised to see numerous occassions, when mesmerised with the imagery, people totally ignored the inconsistencies between their real posture and the images being displayed. They genuinely thought that the images would be from their own bodies. Some people even tried to stand on the device together to scan two at one!

Of those, who acknowledged it technologically impossible that the device would do genuine reading, many still "scanned" their hip area very quickly not to expose themselves to the surrounding viewers. A group of tourists, I heard, were loudly comparing the differences they found in their brains when they scanned themselves after one another.

The biggest fear I had for the installation was that it would be too simple. After one second one would understand what it does, and would loose interest. To my delight, that did not happen, and people did explore enthusiastically the iinside view to human body being made accessible through the awareness of their own body.