Participents who attended my last workshop said it was good, but there are still some areas that could be improved. So in this intervention, I’ve adjusted some parts and tried to make my workshop more productive.

1. Shorten the length of time. The last workshop was originally planned to start at 20:00 and end at 1am. This workshop started from 3-5pm. At the same time, I limited everyone’s working hours to 1 hour. Even if someone didn’t have work you plan to accomplish, they had to stop. With the 1-hour limit, participants are made aware of the speed of their work and the importance of time management.

2. Increase the background diversity of participants. Last time, the participants were all students of our major, and everyone knew each other well. Some of the participants at this time work in different fields. Compared with the relaxed and a little loose atmosphere of the last time, the atmosphere of this time was a little tense and too quiet. How to liven up the atmosphere is what I need to improve next.

3. Prevent participants from interfering with each other. In the last workshop, participants reported that they would be disturbed by people around them when they were working. People sometimes start chatting. So in this workshop, I set a game rule: let everyone supervises each other by giving the ‘annoying person’ a red card. This rule worked very well, no one was chatting, and everyone was focused on learning. But the atmosphere is too quiet, making people feel pressured. How to balance the relaxed atmosphere and the tense working state is what I will research next.

On the live streaming page of Bilibili, the video website with the most GenZ users in China, there is a column called Learning Accompany. Many people are preparing for tests and making themselves more self-disciplined and more motivated to learn.

At the same time, many viewers will enter the live-streaming room to study with the anchor. So I thought about whether, for artists, it is possible to use live streaming to focus on their work rather than procrastinate. 

A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled across two artists studying at the Goldsmith MA Computational Art course, that were live streaming on Instagram. So I interviewed Long, the promoter of the live streaming.

• Q: Why did you decide to start live?
• A: Because I work at home, I have the habit of keeping video calls with artist friends, like working together. So I thought why not to start a live.
• Q: Do you think live streaming makes you more productive?
• A: Not at all. I was very inefficient that day. The reason was not that other artist’s working affected me but that tourists trying to connect with us were too noisy, which affected my efficiency.
• Q: Why did you choose live instead of video meeting?
• A: First of all, it is really novel, and I’d like to have a try. Besides, You can let people in your social circle know what you have been doing recently。
• Q: Do you think friends in your live can supervise you?
• A: No. We are very familiar to each other.

As can be seen from the interview, there is a big difference between studying for an exam and working as an artist. Because the work of the artist is often creative, not a repetitive practice of the exercises. Therefore, the live of the accompanying learning mode cannot be directly tried on the artist.