GR1: Analysis

Observations & Interviews

- Most feedback comes from gallery critiques or mentor meetings

- Galleries are short and often more social

- Mentor meetings give a limited perspective

- The artistic process is very personal and some artists are hesitant to over-share

- The artist wants to gauge the emotional response, but it's hard to measure

- Varieties of sources are useful, but you your review audiences to be organized meaningfully (i.e. professor's do not see your friends reviews, etc.)

- The process involves many drafts and versions, and you sometimes want to show all of the stages in case you lost something along the way

- Feedback is directed at many different categories: Conceptual (What is the intention?), Contextual (How does this fit in with what we have seen before?), Technical (The actual skill).

-  The artist often wants to know which work relates to yours or what your work brings to your audience's mind in a semantic sense

- Sometimes the artist wants their work to reflect a sense of collaboration of viewer input

- Sometimes the work is more phenomenological, so visual feedback can be difficult

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User Classes

• Roles
  • Arts professors
  • Arts students
  • Professional artists
  • Non-artists
• Types
  • Host
    • wants feedback
    • roles: arts professors, arts students, pro artists
  • Commenters
    • givers of feedback
    • all roles

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