Lightdark.space is a website created to explore human activities during twilight. It is configured from the horizon to -18 degrees, to the point of astronomical twilight. The website is an explorative device, and also highlights technologies used to harness and exploit light and dark around the globe. The transitional colours for the page scroll have been identified using a tool developed by Martin Krzywinski at the British Columbia Genome Sciences Center. The colours were parsed as separators with the ‘degrees’, using differential to blend them into transitional split.
The website is an evolving resource and place of ideas, information and considerations on human interactions in the transition of light to dark. The experience of the content is mediated by the gradual and in some places, uncompromising cacophony of various forms of street lighting found in both urban and rural locations. From the perspective of the reader, the website structure allows an experience of the concise pattern of thought behind the suggested relation or correlation to light and dark, whether it comes in speculative form or statement of fact. The aim of the website is to visualise the relationship between light, dark and artificial light in the perspective of the Anthropocene, exploring the material and the immaterial - the unembodied and that which has matter. An opening statement sets up the conceptual structure, degree steps to -18.
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