Thursday, 22 May 2014

Rephrasing the Project Question

So, today I've had a tutorial with a supervisor for feedback on the presentation I did a few weeks ago, which summarised my project development. Fair points were made about the focus and context of my project being a bit cloudy and weak, which I don't find disagreeable at all. It's true that I've been feeling a bit lost with it and where to go next, especially in terms of organising a 'grand design' of the project realisation. So, the question of the project itself has been revised and addressed.

I was previously working with this question, which was discovered to be the weakness of my project from day 1, mainly because of its ambiguity:
How do you provide intrinsic clues for the audience and facilitate accordingly in order to improve the engagement with interactive art, and overall the quality of a seamless experience in a gallery or museum space as opposed to traditional settings?

This is now my current question:
How do you facilitate for an effective and engaging experience for the audience at a multi-disciplinary exhibition, which includes both interactive and traditional art forms in the gallery space?

I've broken this new question down to bullet points in my Learning Agreement:
  • Facilitate – this involves the variety of technical tasks, logistic set up and health & safety. Of course, I need the idea for such an experience first, in order to apply the necessary steps and organisation to accommodate for it. Facilitation and idea go hand in hand. 
  • Effective and engaging experience – this point boils down to presentation, I think. When organising an exhibition or other such creative events, once the logistics are in place, there is presentation to consider. I was largely focused on interactive art for this point as well as the first, but have recently found first-hand that this also extends to non-digital mediums and depends more on how it applies to the gallery space. 
  • Multi-disciplinary exhibition, which includes both interactive and traditional art forms – whilst emphasising the inclusive nature of this type of event, this raises a curatorial perspective on the presentation of both interactive and traditional artwork in the same room. It may sound easy in writing, but having a certain art form compliment another medium that is completely different from it relies on the previous points as well as the last, beyond their individual aesthetics. 
  • Gallery space – I use this these words loosely, because it does not necessarily have to be a gallery per se, but could be an industrial or studio space. It is, nonetheless, an important point to make, because of the influence it can have on the facilitative, organisational and curatorial aspects of experiencing an interactive, visual communication. 
It was agreed in this tutorial that the revised question is more solid and focused, and comes back round to link my interests in digital and interactive art as well as address the significance of understanding the audience of the art world.

Now, apart from revising every other part like the rationales and objectives that surround this question, it occurs to me that I have not yet branded the project. So, now to contemplate a catchy title.

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