I’ve decided on a website; Illuminatemelbourne.weebly.com. Hopefully by the time you are reading this, that link will actually be active…
I went with a completely black design on the website, I didn’t want any distractions from the videos themselves. This also had a secondary, and honestly unintentional, creative outcome for the website. On the main decision page, the videos themselves act as lights in the space and reflect the experiment, which i think works well. It isn’t entirely clear at first that these are links so even the experience of choosing the first video is an experiment into wondering and light.
The layout of the website lead me to continuing to explore how I could facilitate the audience into interaction. The entire goal of the experiment is to explore the effect that light sources have on noticing, so I think that this interactive element encourages the audience to contemplate the effect further. If they are choosing what they are watching, they will, perhaps, wonder about why they are choosing the videos they are watching. The website lends itself perfectly to this experience. Each link to a video invites the audience to navigate the spaces freely in whatever order they are drawn towards, I hope that this will enable them to contemplate why they are making the choices rather than just sitting in front of a screen and watching videos play.
All that’s left now is the exhibition.