Electronic Art New Media Performance Art Big Idea: Identity Julia Kropinova Liana Foxx

Lesson Title: Exploration of Self Big Idea: Identity Grade: 8th Lesson Overview: Our lesson involves Electronic Art and New Media with integration of performance art. The students will perform a VTS session of a new media image, which will help them brainstorm ideas for their hands on activity. The students will create an image that incorporates their self-portrait photograph which explores identity using collage elements from magazines while altering their final product electronically through computer, phone, or other applications.

Lesson Objectives Visual Art: The students will be able to identify and describe verbally who they are as an artist, student, or future teacher through exploration of VTS activity. Students will use Martin Grohs as inspiration for the verbal identification of their final work. Visual Art: The students will be able to visualize and create a unique self-portrait using personal photographs, mixed media materials, and electronic programs in order to express themselves. Multicultural: The students will be able to explore the prior information they have learned about the history of their culture in order to incorporate it into their final self-portrait.

Summative Assessment Strategy of studio investigations Visual art will be assessed though students ability to verbalize what type of materials they decided to use and why. Description of words, adjectives, and intelligent explanation of their work will be important in order for students to relate their identity to this project. Visual art will be assessed through students’ ability to create the imagery while using mixed media materials and electronic programs to create their portraits. They will be able to relate and assemble imagery available to their personal experiences, culture, and race. Multicultural will be assessed through students relating their cultural history to this project by incorporating imagery, words, and the knowledge of their background into this project.

Lesson Procedures The teachers will motivate students with a video of (The Alchemy of Light) performance Art by DandyPunk artist who incorporates digital media into his performance, inspiring many to create and learn more about new media and performance art. The video supports the key concepts related to digital media, new media and performance art. Teachers will introduce the big idea of the lesson through a creative power point that uses Martin Grohs imagery to create interest in the subject, while inspiring students to appropriate the techniques used by the artist. Teachers will make sure to link the lesson plan to students’ prior knowledge by identifying specific vocabulary words shown in the power point and the think sheet provided to students in order to focus on the objectives for this project. Students will preform a VTS session with Martin Grohs’ portrait images to identify vocabulary and help brainstorm the ideas for their own projects.

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Martin Grohs -VTS Vocabulary Mixed media Contemporary Manipulation Innovation Symmetry Characteristics Juxtaposition Surrealism Connection Digital Art Imaging Electronic Media Identity New Media Perspective Culture Fractal

Martin Grohs has been creating digital art for the last four years, specializing in photo manipulation and the use of Photoshop, illustration, and Cinema 4D. Grohs likes to think outside of the box, commenting on his portfolio that his 'passion is to create art that inspires the viewer to think about and deal with the topic. He is a 29 year old self-taught graphic designer, illustrator, artist, creative thinker, world inventor, dream shaper, and problem solver. He is currently based in Germany and specializes in illustration, graphic design, and image manipulation. www.martingrohs.de http://grohsartig.deviantart.com http://youtu.be/PU8HWM2hqoQ

Key Concepts: Electronic Art and New Media have no limits. Digital revolution has increasingly influenced artists in their role as innovator of materials. Media uses representations-image, words, and characters or personae-to convey specific ideas and values related to culture and identity in society. Environment has urged artists to be involved in the eccentrically rapid change taking place in society. Transformation is the altering of a form or image that creates curiosity towards the subject matter. Multimedia equipment has been used increasingly among visual artists and performance art. Electronic new media is the new means of mass communication. Identity is a socially and historically constructed concept.

Essential Questions: How can something that has no limits such as electronic art, be narrowed down in the classroom so the students are able to explore new media in small increments? In what ways does digital revolution strengthen the role of innovator in our society? How can the rapid change in our society help create meaningful artwork? How can appropriation of images contribute to the students’ exploration of self-portrait? In what ways does multimedia equipment contributes to variation of new media artwork? What responsibilities come with freedom of Electronic media art? In what ways can new media contribute to the exploration of self?

Objectives: Prior to creating the project, explore the information you have learned from Martin Grohs and his work in order to integrate the ideas into your work. Curate a small-scale self-portrait from mixed media materials and photographs you brought as home work assignment while incorporating electronic applications available to you. Identify your culture and other unique information about you related to this self-portrait. Visualize the artwork using personal photographs and other mixed media materials in order to celebrate your culture, personality and race. Take a photo of your final artwork. Create a digital filter through electronic applications available to you through computer and phone.

Examples of Electronic Art

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