AE17.MED.AC.18

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

AE17.MED.AC.18
Critically investigate and ethically interact with legal, technological, systemic, and vocational contexts of media arts, considering ethics, media literacy, digital identity, and artist/audience interactivity.

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 modify an existing media arts work by interjecting research to strengthen or challenge the message of the work.
Create an annotated bibliography of media arts products that inform an audience about a cultural tradition. Choose one product and share with the class, expanding their knowledge of a tradition through a media arts experience.
Create an annotated bibliography of media arts products that inform an audience about the cause and effect of a current social trends. Choose one and share with the class, demonstrating how the message varies within different contexts.
Research the legal, technological, system, 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
Introspection
External
Connections
Research

Creativity

Synthesize

Message

Purpose
Persuasion
Values
Contexts

Contexts

Legal
Technological
Systemic
Vocational

Ethics

Responsibility

Digital Citizenship

Literacy
Fair Use
Copyright
Ownership

Anchor Standards

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