Based on the concept of Cooperative Aesthetics, developed by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerhard Funk, students of Time-based and Interactive Media Art at the University of Arts and Design Linz and Prof. Funk have created 30 artworks for the Deep Space of the Ars Electronica Center since 2015. These projects will now be presented weekly until July 2021 in the course of an Ars Electronica Home Delivery series. Using the lasertracking system of the Deep Space the artworks enable visitors to have a collective, audiovisual, aesthetic experience.
If two “free” users in Bar Trace by Gerhard Funk come close to each other, a color bar is drawn inside a circle between them. As long as the two do not exceed the maximum distance indicated by the circle, they form a pair whose movements in space are represented by a growing three-dimensional trace in the color of the bar on the wall projection.
