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Observations & Interviews
The Architect
- An architecture student doing graduate-level training for professional architecture work
- She feels that one of her biggest challenges as an arts student is the subjective nature of feedback
- Hard to determine which feedback to listen to
- Some art is MEANT to invoke a negative response -- how do you consider such feedback?
- Most of the feedback she gets comes from gallery critiques, shows or critique sessions
- Galleries are short and often more social than feedback-oriented
- Critique sessions involve getting a number of people into a room where they may make comments, or take a pen and leave annotations/sketches on copies of the art in question
- All of these sessions have time limits, so it's hard to get sufficient feedback
- Success/feedback in such sessions often depends on how well you sell/present the work
Wiki Markup *\[ArtBark group\] This is very interesting, since it indicates that traditional feedback methods are frequently inefficient, and feedback from these sessions is typically hard to organize/interpret.*
- She normally receives a wide variety of feedback** Type of feedback depends on reviewer
- Emotional reactions are common
- It's often very useful to hear simply whether people like/dislike your work
- Structure/technique
- Sometimes people like to sketch to illustrate a point
- Such feedback often results in professors arguing/discussing with each other
- A lot of people like giving references e.g. your work reminds me of..., your work should be more like...
- Not a lot of students may utilize feedback since they're often on a tight schedule and don't have time for many iterations** More frequent feedback would be helpful
- Online feedback would be helpful
- Undergrad students may want to be able to keep variations/previous versions of their work for use in portfolios
- Wants review audiences to have limited visibility of each other (e.g professors shouldn't be able to see what her friends think of her art)
- Most feedback comes from gallery critiques or mentor meetings
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