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  • 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

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  • Process is non-linear: involves many drafts and versions** Sometimes wished he had shown more intermediate stages in case something was lost along the way
  • Really enjoyed contextual feedback (i.e. "oh this is a lot like <some other film maker>")** Especially helpful when such comparisons inspired collaboration.**  Would have liked a forum in which people could post videos of related work.

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  • Since graduating, she feels disconnected from her community of artistic critique, and it is difficult when making new work
    • Uses social media such as facebook Facebook to post intermediate work, concepts, and finished products
    • Also maintains a separate, polished, online portfolio 
    • Interested in richer, more visually-directed feedback from these media

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  • Efficient feedback
    • Artists don't want to spend a lot of time getting feedback (e.g. at gallery critiques)
    • Artists would like to get feedback online
    • Artists would like to get feedback frequently
  • Constructive feedback
    • Commenters should be able to include references (e.g. "this work reminds me of...", "try to make this work more like...")
    • Commenters should be able to provide graphical examples (e.g. sketches) and annotations (similar to pen/paper or sticky notes in traditional critique sessions)
  • Variety of feedback
    • Artists would like to reach a wide variety of commenters (e.g. friends, professors, professionals)
    • Artists may be interested in collaborating with others
  • Organized feedback
    • Artists would like to organize feedback by type (e.g. emotional, like/dislike, technical)
    • Artists would like to set privacy/viewing settings between groups (e.g. professors should not be able to see comments from artist's friends)