Spring 2023 ︎︎︎ SUNY Purchase College ︎︎︎ (DES4100) Community Design 

What is Community? Video Series: Disney Channel’s theme


Introduction

This is a bit of a different video and is not part of the linear trajectory that it may have felt like we were construction with the other videos. It is explicitly about someone trying to find the author of the Disney Channel theme, but it is implicitly about more which has a lot to do with what we talk about in Graphic Design: 

    • Does being an artist “online” somehow invalidate what you do? That is to say online vs. print, film, live performance and the like. 
    • What is “content” and what is “art”?
    • What does authorship mean? Is it important to be known for the things you do? Would you want to be know for everything you do or have done?
    • What kind of history can exist with the “churn” of cultural production?
    • How does anonymity change your appreciation and understanding of media? 

The Required Viewing



Other Things to Consider Looking At

You may find this tangential to explicitly being about Graphic Design. Here’s some things to re-center you:


Be ready to discuss this and upload notes by 04/11