Helló art! I

New Icelandic art. On man, reality & image.
12. 11. 2004 – 16. 01. 2005

Results of students questionnaire

About 200 students from seven schools took part in the project.
Project manager introduced the project in schools, the students borrowed phones and were asked to call the artworks numbers without seeing them.

After obtaining the informations about the artworks and hearing from the artists, mostly all of them were interested in visiting the museum, to see the exhibition, with no diffirent between student’s which visited the museum regulary as with student’s which had never been at the museum.

They claimed that is was unlikely that they would call for the informations numbers without having the artworks in front of them, and in that case, the description of the works would have to contain more details as forms, sizes and colours to help their imagination.

Students also came to see the exhibition, they called to obtain information about the artists and their works and answered a questionnaire about their experience.

They found it an educational and modern way of viewing art, which helped them quickly to understand the artworks and the artist’s views.
They found the presentation modern, which made it easier for visitors to obtain guidance through the museum whenever and from everywhere.

They did not generally find that the information influenced their view, experience and understanding of the artworks, and found it useful, instructive, funny and even a necessary option adding more life to the artworks.

Even though the students’ reactions were mostly positive, there were a small number of negative comments, mostly about the cost of making the phone calls and about the information influencing the visitor’s view and leaving insufficient scope for people’s own imagination.

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Contact:

Rakel Pétursdóttir
Deildarstjóri fræðsludeildar
Listasafni Íslands
Laufásvegi 12, 101 Reykjavík, Iceland
Tel: +354 515 9612, Fax:+354 515 9601

rakel@listasafn.is
www.listasafn.is