CTX (Week 15)

This week, progressing our final project, we interviewed a few international students, one being a junior Korean boy in FID. We will need to put subtitles, of course, for everyone to understand. Which reminds me, I will have to speak in arabic when I am interviewed. Yay..

These are the questions for the interview. Lengthy, but we'll pick the best.

I will need to prepare.

Start offs:

Tell me abit about yourself

I am ____ I grew up in _____ I’ve been in Malaysia for ______ I like/dislike the ______in Malaysia. How different is your country from Malaysia When i was a kid i used to ______ Growing up my life was _____

Talk a bit about your childhood and what you’re like as a kid, your hobby, who do you look up to

QUESTIONS

What in your personal life has influenced you to take on an artistic path

Explain your style in 3 words

What/who inspires you.

Why do you think art is important and needed in society?

What do you think life without art would be like?

Why is art important to you?

What effect (if any) do you think your childhood has had on the creativity you display as an adult? What are your earliest memories involving your own creative expression?

What was your childhood like? Do you think your experiences in childhood have influenced your present creative endeavors?

Has your style of art changed as you have matured? If so,how?

Think back to your childhood. What did you hope to become as an adult?

How have the life events you have experienced influenced your creative style ?

When was the first time that you remember realizing that you are a creative person?

When did you know that this was what you wanted to do with your life? How did you get started?

What moves you most in life, either to inspire or upset you?

What do you think life without art would be like

What is the best thing about studying art and design?

Is there any other way to express yourself?

Do you think being a design student can take away from the passion that you have for art or does it enhances your passion?

What role do you think the culture that you live in plays in your creative efforts?

People usually find design and art courses insignificant and often look down upon. What are your thoughts on it?

What are the challenges you have faced throughout your journey as a design student?

What do you do to keep yourself motivated and interested in your work?

What do you do to get into your creative zone?

Do you believe that it is important to be accepted by others as being creative or is just doing what you love to do enough to justify your work?

Are you ever afraid or concerned about being judged by others or worried about how your creativity is perceived?

Do you think there should be a censorship to art?

Do the opinions of other people influence or change what you create?

Many have these perceptions that people who take art are academically challenged or that they dont do well in school. Tell us if you’ve experienced this sort of prejudiced against creative people.

Why pursue a creative field if you know there’s so many artists who struggle to make a living off it?

Has rejection ever affected your creative process?

If your creative work were edible, what would it taste like?

If you were a colour in a box of crayons, what colour would you be and why?

What’s your least favorite colour and why?

If you could live during another artistic movement what would it be and why?

If you had the opportunity, what creative person (living or dead) would you like to work with? Why?

If you could interview and spend a day with a creative person (past or present), who would that person be? Why?

Do you think traditional art still has a place in the creative industry or is it time we move on to a more modern approach?

What are your thoughts on modern art, do you think art exhibitions nowadays where they show things splattered on the walls as “art” pretentious?

Do you think that art has lost its meaning when nowadays people buy and bid on it for such a high price? Or do you think art should hold a high price to appreciate them.

What are your thoughts on street art such as graffiti, is it art or vandalism?

What kind of art is unappealing to you? And why

What art movement or artist would you say influences your work most?

If you knew that you had only one last opportunity to express yourself creatively, what message would you want to convey to others?