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. They will create an image that incorporates their self-portrait
photograph that explores their identities 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 personality 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. 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.
VTS
 Martin Grohs -VTS Vocabulary
Alice in Wonderland
Mixed media
Evolution
Innovation
Symmetry
Characteristics
Juxtaposition
Surrealism
Manipulation
Digital Art
Imaging
Mixed media
Electronic Media
Human
Woman
Face, head, girl
Roses
Butterfly
Violet, gold
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
 Key Concepts:
Electronic Art and New Media
have no limits
Digital revolution has
increasingly influenced artists
in their role as innovator of
materials
Environment has urged artists
to be involved in the
eccentrically rapid changed
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
Limitless Electronic Media can
create confusion among artists
Electronic new media is the
new means of mass
communication
 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
Examples of Electronic Art
(contd)
The End