Unit: Visual Culture and Design
Visual Power is an exploration of visual culture nowadays. It guides students to read messages that are released by mass media, such as advertisements, posters, conceptual performances, videos, and films. It discusses how mass media heavily influenced modern people’s every daily lives, consumer behaviors, and other decision-making processes. The special strategy, culture jamming, will be introduced for students to create 3 images that criticize how mass media/social norms controls and creates some unhealthy perceptions. The images will all be created based upon existing commercial advertisement or artworks. Carefully chosen advertisements, posters, and relevant artworks would be discussed before students create their posters.
Adbusters 2011
Art Activism: The Entire World is Your Showroom is a discovery of combining printmaking with digital video editing. Chosen street art pieces, social posters, contemporary art, and alternative printmaking materials will be discussed to help students further explore how artists probe people to think some social concerns differently and critically by means of the visual power through making social posters. The lesson also guides students to make meaning connections between the social posters they make and the places where they want to post the posters in the process of video filming and video editing (stitch their posters in the video). Relevant technology will be introduced to support students to create their final social video “showroom.”
JR- Use art to turn the world inside out
Art and Peace explores how visual art creates peaceful power between human beings through collaborative works. It guides students to work as small groups to investigate and research how to make or work with an art piece/project co-operatively. Each group of students will create an art piece to bring kind and peaceful message for a chosen local community tht they want to see it changes. Many community-based projects would be introduced. To support students’ creative process, alternative materials, such as sewing, collage, photomontage, installation, documentary filming, printing, painting, and writing will be provided and instructed. students to create their final social video “showroom.”