Critique It™

Awardee: Michael Connors
Team Members: Dan LaValley, Catherine Stephens
Department: Art

Professor Connors moved his virtual critique environment from Croquet to Second Life. He designed and

implemented a design gallery where students could explore a fellow student's work's genesis from research to thumbnails to selected sketches and the final work.  This leads to the critique and the Critique_It™ environment.

Critique_It™ deconstructs the critique process and provides a framework for online social critical discourse. Students final artworks are on the exterior walls. 

In the central space, students move through the stages of the critique:  Protocol Review, Direct Observation / Spontaneous Response, Comparative Analysis, Formal Analysis, Artist's Statement, The Defense, and finally Revision if necessary.  Each stage has an alcove with instructions.  The student is generally directed to a wiki where he or she responds to an artwork within the context of that stage of the critique process.