artlink,

Sounds like an interresting set of installations you've put together over there. Lots of people contributing ideas. Organizing the funding must have been a full time job!

Anyway, about the website.

Main Navigation
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I agree with 3PRIMATES about the main navigation. It would appear you have the space available to move the content to have the brush "hanging" out at the top of the page throughout the site.

When you enter a particular section of the site, "groups" for example. If you wander through the pages, then click on the "menu" button, and then try to click on the link to the section you're currently in, it doesn't take you back to the front of that section.

If you decide after clicking on the menu button to continue to peruse the "groups" section, the brush remains at the top of the page and doesn't move until you select a different section...this would be taken care of if the link to the section your in reloads that particular section...not sure if that make sense typed out, but it makes sense in my head.

I really like the little security camera you've got attached to the brush, is it possible to work on an x-axis rotation as well, so when the mouse is to the left of the camera it flips over and points to the left, or would that make the item over animated?

Groups Section
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When I was inside the "groups" section, the navigation wasn't exactly intuitive.

It took a while for me to realize that to get back to the list of groups from a particular group, I had to click on the name of the group or the blue bar with the back down arrow in it...

It would seem that the blue box with the arrow indicates that there was more content to be revealed. A better solution might be to have an blue box and arrow to the left of the name of the group, and have an arrow pointing to the left.

I didn't realize until a bit further on that you could click on the orange boxes next to the main graphic and pull up new pictures by clicking them...might be a good idea to put a call to action (like an orange box with a back down arrow) over that space. Personally, I'm not a big fan of the disappearing cursor, but I like the way the mouseover brings up a bigger picture...

Actions
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Pretty much identical to the groups critique.


People
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Core Team - looks good, works great.

Participants - Considering these people are part of the group, but aren't going to get their names at the top of the page like the folks in the Core team, would it be possible to keep the graphics from flipping by time...possibly have the graphic behind a mask, and let the user move the graphic up and down...would give a better feel to how many people were involved.

Residnecies - I'm not sure why the top picture is part of the artecheri project, and the bottom is part of the polystyrene tv project...I couldn't get a good feel for what either project really was. It would seem this particular part of the people section would benefit from being handled more like the groups section, where a description of each of the projects could fill the right hand side, and pictures of them could be on the left...

Installation
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I whiped up a similar map style project a while ago, and one of the things I finally ended up adding was a set of mouseovers on the map itself. That way the user could either mouse over the name or the map and get more info about it. I found that it was more intuitive and the users could get a better idea of what each part of the building was.

Take all these with a grain of salt, I know how much work you have put into this, but I think the site could benefit from some of the changes.

Lincoln