visual literati

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Digital Media: New Learners of the 21st Century

New program from PBS - Digital Media: New Learners of the 21st Century

Watch the full episode. See more Digital Media - New Learners Of The 21st Century.

This is set to debut tonight, but if you're stuck with Mediacom (like me) your viewing options are 2:00 or 4:00 A.M. - grrrr! I'm hoping that they eventually stream it online. Keep your fingers crossed!

Media Literacy in the Art Classroom

THIS ASSIGNMENT IS FOR THE 8900 COURSE

View the video below as an introduction to this assignment:

Your technology topic this week focuses on the area of media literacy. Your assigned readings are as follows:

Rosen - Chapter 7 "Media Literacy Among 21st Century Kids"
Kuan Chung & Kirby - "Media Literacy Art Education: Logos, Culture Jamming, & Activism"

In addition to your assigned readings I would like you to watch two documentaries I have embedded here within our blog - Killing Us Softly and Consuming Kids.

Killing Us Softly can be viewed here.

Consuming Kids can be viewed here.

Once you have finished the readings and viewing the films I would like for you to address the following question:

What is the role of art education (or art educators) in teaching students to be media literate digital citizens?

Describe your personal position persuasively using references from the readings and films when applicable. Additionally consider the following dimension - how would you teach media literacy in the art classroom? (Kuan Chung & Kirby's article as well as these resources from PBS may be good jumping off points). This response will be in lieu of your read and react and should be at least 750 words (due to lengthy nature of the content and the broad scope of the topic).

When you have finished writing you will need to respond to at least one other student's post.

Consuming Kids Documentary

Consuming Kids throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food and violent video games to bogus educational products and the family car. Drawing on the insights of health care professionals, children's advocates, and industry insiders, the film focuses on the explosive growth of child marketing in the wake of deregulation, showing how youth marketers have used the latest advances in psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience to transform American children into one of the most powerful and profitable consumer demographics in the world. Consuming Kids pushes back against the wholesale commercialization of childhood, raising urgent questions about the ethics of children's marketing and its impact on the health and well-being of kids.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

google art project

think of the potential!!

click here to explore.

Monday, January 31, 2011

Copyright in fashion - an interesting conundrum!

The first time I saw Johanna Blakley's TED talk on the idea of copyright in fashion it absolutely blew my socks off. If you haven't seen it, you need to watch it now.

Then, as ideas so often do, I ran across this article in Jezebel which addresses the issue again - but states that some large brands do often sue (and win) cases involving copyright infringement.

Forever 21 knocks off smaller, less established labels — like Trovata, Alexander Wang, and Foley + Corinna, whose printed maxi dress is shown here next to its Forever 21 copy — because those brands are less likely to be able to mount a vigorous legal defense.

Read more: http://jezebel.com/5742029/forever-21s-bizarre-knockoff-empire#ixzz1CfTJ8FTk

And then, just today, this article was posted about Gap potentially stealing a flickr image (remind anyone of Shepard Fairey vs. the Associated Press)?