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GR1: Analysis

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

    • [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)

The Filmmaker 

  • A technical artist at an Academy Award-winning special effects studio.
  • Attended art school for film technique and film theory.
  • He received the majority of his feedback/critique from an assigned mentor.
    • Sometimes had peer reviews, but they were brief.
    • Would seek out friends and teaching assistants opinions as they were closer in age / understood his perspective
    • Felt that intermediate feedback was easy to come by, but lacked breadth
  • Worked more towards universal appeal than personal expression
    • It's hard to know what people are going to like. 
    • Often wanted to gauge a more general response from his intended audience, and not just people within his artistic community
  • He found that getting critique from within your art school can have a negative effect sometimes
    • A lot of internal competition that clouds people's judgement. 
    • A lot of pressure to do good work by a set of known standards, and there is less room to experiment. 
  • 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.The Professor

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

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

The Painter

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

Needs & Goals

  • 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)
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