GreyZ13215216: Seminar Presentation Evaluation

I did my Seminar Presentation on the artist Yayoi Kusama because of her clear connection between mine and her work. I'm going to evaluate my presentation and the things I did well and can improve on and then create a new and improved presentation.

Original Presentation

Feedback Forms

These are the feedback forms that I received about my presentation.

Analysing the feedback

I have just grouped together all the information that was included on the feedback sheets to make it easier to understand and evaluate.

From the feedback forms I found that I did these things well:

· I had a good use of videos from different sources and also a variety of images.
· The presentation is well laid out and organised.
· I showed a good relationship between my work and the artists.
· clear presentation
· good presentation length about 10minutes

Issues that I bought up and discussed:

· The artist doesn't mind making bad work, she's in isolation she doesn't know what other artists are making
· shapes and marks that are made
· how she doesn't know how to explain her work
· Her mental health/ state
· Explained why the work was important
· Explained why female artists weren't well known
· Use of space and vanishing points
· How the artist uses her work as a platform for people to understand her work.

Artists that where suggested to me:

· Damien Hirst- Spot Paintings

· Jackson Pollock

· Colour Blind tests

· Andy Warhol

Improvements that I was suggested to make:

· Talk louder and more clearly
· Ask more questions about her process in depth
· How does it relate to other artists
· Could talk more about childhood influence.

What I thought of the presentation

I thought the presentation went well, but I may have rushed and skimmed over some points that I planned to go in more depth. I felt that my voice was and ok volume, but obviously it didn't project to the back of the room as well as I thought and obviously if I was to do it again or in my future Art History Seminar presentation I will make sure that I speak louder and project my voice more; maybe I should have practiced a little more in my room beforehand to see how my voice was projecting. I felt I conveyed many ideas about the artist and her work, and also gave enough basic information to understand the artist's influences and why Kusama creates the work that she does. However it was suggested that I should have conducted more research into her process's to make it clearer how the work is created which I do agree with this and when I make my new and improved presentation this will defiantly be one of the improvements.

I touched on her childhood briefly, but I didn't want to bog everyone down with information so I kept the information about the artists early life to a minimum, but it has been suggested that maybe I need to include more to help people put the work into context better; this is something that I will again include more about on the new presentation.

I felt that I agreed with the points that people thought that I did well as they were the ones that I was hoping to achieve when doing my presentation. I thought that my presentation was professionally constructed and it wasn't too overloaded by text as I only put a very few key points on the slide and I expanded them when taking about the artist. I tried to make links between the relationship of mine and her work whenever I could so people could see how she was influencing my work both visually and through her concepts. I didn't want the presentation to drag on and on so I made sure that it only lasted about ten minutes by practising it before and by looking at the feedback people seemed to pick up on this.

I wanted to bring up a good amount off issues and controversial statements to get people talking about the work after the presentation and I'm really glad that people picked up on so many throughout the presentation and it lead to a interesting discussion after, particularly the issue of her being in isolation and the fact that she never really sees any other forms of art anymore; people where discussing how it effects her work without any other key influences other than her home and studio. It was decided as her work came from inspiration from her hallucinations the fact that she didn't see any other work didn't really make any difference as she wasn't trying to conform to any style she was doing the work for her own benefit. Which lead onto another interesting discussion that she uses her work as a platform to try and get people to understand how she sees things, she is trying to educate people with her work and get them to see the world from her point of view. It's like trying to persuade us that she's not mentally ill.