A metaphor for the interaction with a human being, for getting into the world of this
person’s feelings—CAVE visitors can interact with the inner emotions and the outward
appearances of the space face. Their individual movements trigger changes of
feelings manifested as compositions of color and form.

I can change an artistic work in my imagination by going along with the emotions, reactions
and impulses that the work evokes within me. But the work itself does not change.
In life, I also interact with my communications partners by immediately implementing
their nonverbal emotional responses to my own part in the communications process
and modify it thereby. My partners subsequently become cognizant of the fact that I
have already perceived their emotional responses and reactions—and so forth.

Gesichtsraum is, accordingly, a wall and space painting that is designed to be changed
by the nonverbal, emotional responses of CAVE visitors. It constitutes the attempt
to achieve a communicative emotional sequence for CAVE visitors through the triggering
of emotions by means of compositions of color and form and via the possibility
of interaction.

Translated from the German by Mel Greenwald