Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 09-12 - Media Arts

AE17.MED.PRO.17

Demonstrate and explain how media arts productions and ideas relate to various contexts, purposes, and values, including social trends, power, equality, and personal/cultural identity.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Media artworks and ideas are better understood and produced by relating them to their purposes, values, and various contexts.
EQ: How does media arts relate to its various contexts, purposes, and values? How does investigating these relationships inform and deepen the media artist's understanding and work?

Skills Examples

  • Research for a media arts project by reflecting, interviewing family and friends, and reading scholarly sources and create an annotated bibliography that includes an evaluation of the sources.
  • Create an annotated bibliography of media arts products that inform an audience about various cultural values and perspectives. Choose one and share with the class, demonstrating the effective presentation of a single point of view.
  • Create an annotated bibliography of media arts products that inform an audience about the cause and effect of a current social trend. Choose one product and share with the class, demonstrating the trend's effect on cultural identity.
  • Research the legal, technological, systemic, and vocational implication of music sampling in the music industry and create a media arts project that evaluates the court decisions regarding sampling and the effects on media artworks and artists.

Vocabulary

Resources
  • Internal
  • External
Communication
  • Inform
Creativity
  • Synthesize
  • Integrate
Contexts
  • Legal
  • Technological
  • Systemic
  • Vocational
Message
  • Purpose
  • Meaning
  • Values
Culture
  • Trends
  • Power
  • Equality
  • Identity
Identity
  • Personal
  • Social
  • Cultural
Evaluate
  • Critical eye
    • Vet

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
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