Peer review
Duan:Your blog is very comprehensive. You have considered your personal curatorial theme from various aspects. You have already considered the complete curatorial theme and the artists. I’m also glad to see that you have learned knowledge from offline activities and thought about the project.
However, there might be a lack of some resources in your blog. Have you read some relevant literature? Or attended lectures related to artificial intelligence? I believe that sufficient theoretical knowledge will make your project more valuable.
In terms of blog design, it would be better if you could add more pictures for display. This will help me better understand your content. Overall, it is an excellent blog!
Cong:Your curatorial project is highly innovative and forward-looking in its conception of AI-generated art and audience interaction. However, in further development, in-depth consideration needs to be given to the way in which AI, as an ‘artist’, interacts with the audience so as to avoid limiting it to a demonstration of technology. In terms of interaction design, you can clarify how to involve the audience in the creative process rather than just passively watching. In addition, attention needs to be paid to how to balance artistic experimentation with the audience’s ethical sensibilities. The immersive nature of the exhibition format and the stability of the technology are also crucial to ensuring the smooth progress of high-quality real-time creation. Overall, the project is creative, but the design needs to be further optimised in terms of detail to ensure that the audience has a deep experience of the fusion of technology and art.
BLOG FEEDBACK
You have been posting frequently and it is good to see you developing a consistent practice of using your blog. The toolkit does suggest that you should focus on quality over quantity – suggesting 200-300 word post lengths. However, some of your blog posts are very short at around 100 words or less and as such there is a lack of depth in your engagement with your research materials.
For example, in your Artist blog post you discuss Xanthe Dobbie’s work in two sentences, stating that it explores “the potential and ethics of AI technology”. You reference the work with Cate Blanchett as an example but more detail on this would be beneficial to articulate the particular ethical issues that this work engages.
I’d also encourage you to make explicit the connection between your wider research and the project proposal you are developing. For example, it would be beneficial to include some reflection on how this artist research is informing the development of your individual curatorial project.
Similarly, whilst it is good to see that you are visiting exhibitions and great that you had an opportunity to see the Refik Anadol work, there is no information on what this work was or any reflection on the experience.
PEER FEEDBACK
I think you have posted the feedback you have received on your own project to your blog rather than the feedback you have written for your two peers. It is the latter that you should include as a post on your blog as this allows me to see what you have written and provide feedback to support the Summative Peer Review you will complete.
CURATORIAL PITCH FEEDBACK
Your presentation articulates both the form and focus of your curatorial project proposal and evidences independent research to support the development of your curatorial proposal.
Remember the Toolkit states that your project must be pitched at your level as an emerging curator. I think the complexity of the technological elements discussed in your exhibition format and experience slide are beyond this. What you are outlining would require a significant team of people to design and produce.
It’s also important to consider how exhibition design elements work with the exhibited artworks. You want to allow the audience to engage with the artists’ works without being overwhelmed by the exhibition design. The themes that you are exploring should emerge from the artists’ works themselves. More detailed information on your chosen artists and the rational for their selection is needed.
For the two reasons above, I would suggest focusing in on one of the ideas in the Exhibition Format & Experience section. Given that you have expressed an interest in AI’s use in curatorial processes specifically, I’d suggest that the consideration of AI to shape visitor pathways through the exhibition which you discussed in your presentation may be the most relevant to your project aims but you will need to think about how this could work in practice.
The emerging curator parameter is also something to consider re. venue selection. As an emerging curator, a smaller venue is likely to be much more feasible. The Power Station of Art does have an Emerging Curators competition so you could which supports an emerging curator to develop a project but even this suggests that the proposal should speak to the curator’s previous exhibitions or work.
Thanks for your suggestions！