AE17.MED.PRO.17

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

Anchor Standards

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