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  • UPROOTED: End of Year Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

    Posted on November 11, 2019

    UPROOTED features works that are built around diverse and varying theoretical frameworks, as well as a wide variety of different mediums that include video, installation, printmaking, mixed media, painting and conceptual art.

  • China-Africa Design Summit, Tongji Design Week 2019

    Posted on November 08, 2019

    Dr Fatima Cassim, from the Information Design division, was invited by Tongji University’s College of Design and Innovation to present at the inaugural China-Africa Design Summit. The Summit was held on 15 October in Shanghai, China, as part of the Tongji Design Week 2019.

  • MediaArtHistories conference

    Posted on September 26, 2019

    Jenni Lauwrens presented a paper at the MediaArtHistories conference which was held in Aalborg, Denmark from 19-23 August 2019. The theme of the conference was RE:SOUND and the title of her paper was Engineering Empathy Through the Power of Voice.

  • Community engagement at Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital

    Posted on September 03, 2019

    The Honours students in Visual Studies were tasked to cultivate a positive environment for the patients and staff by producing Photo Essays to adorn the walls of the ward.

  • Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi at the University of Pretoria

    Posted on August 20, 2019

    Mmakgabo Sebidi is on a 3-month Residency at the University of Pretoria that is funded by the Mellon Foundation. The residency includes working with Fine Art students at the Tshwane University of Technology and the University of Pretoria. She will deliver a Master Class at the Student Gallery,...

  • UP student, Dian Labuschagne, wins HOMEMAKERS design Expo competition

    Posted on July 21, 2019

    HOMEMAKERS Expo has collaborated with the University of Pretoria (UP) in the creation of the theme for next year’s show. UP's third-year Information Design students were required to create a visual design concept that would become the theme for HOMEMAKERS Expo 2020. This year's winner, Dian...

  • A German repository of African knowledge, and a translator in the waiting room

    Posted on June 12, 2019

    On 18 April Prof Lize Kriel from UP and Ms Margrit Schulze from the University of Limpopo presented a paper at the joint Conference of the Association for German Studies in Southern Africa and the GAS (Germanistik in Afrika Subsahara), hosted by the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein.

  • Launch of Voices from the South: Digital Arts and Humanities (2018) edited by Prof Amanda du Preez

    Posted on May 21, 2019

    Prof Amanda du Preez’s edited volume Voices from the South: Digital Arts and Humanities was recently launched at an event organised by the Visual Studies Programme in the School of the Arts. The following authors contributed chapters: Prof Amanda du Preez, Prof Charles Travis, Dr Chris...

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