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.
Gerhard Funk´s work „Eccentric Circles“ was inspired by 1960s Op Art artist Marina Apollonio. When players enter the eccentric circles on the floor projection, each of them sets a new centre around, which makes the circles move. The circle animation suddenly transforms into a psychedelic black and white mandala, appearing almost like a 3-dimensional object, a symbol for the cosmos in which each action we take has an impact on the whole system.
