Image/text, a seminar and exhibition hosted by the Department of Visual Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of the University of Pretoria

Posted on September 15, 2015

This colloquium Image/text took its cue from WJT Mitchell’s concept imagetext which addresses the complex, intermedial, multimodal exchange between image/text and text/image.

Professor Audrey Bennett (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) opens Department of Visual Arts’ Fine Art staff exhibition at Van Wouw House

Posted on September 08, 2015

Fine Art staff at the Department of Visual Arts exhibited recent work at Van Wouw House from the 27th of August until the 4th of September.

Rory du Plessis, lecturer in Visual Studies, receives Art Cluster Researcher of the Year Award

Posted on September 08, 2015

On 4 September 2015, Rory received the award for ‘Researcher of the year’ in the Arts Cluster of the Faculty of Humanities. At the very prestigious event, he gave a fascinating presentation on his research which focuses on the photographs taken at the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum, South...

Visual Studies Field Trip to Freedom Park

Posted on September 07, 2015

On Saturday 29 August, a group of third year students from the Department of Visual Arts visited Freedom Park, a heritage and legacy site situated on Salvokop in Pretoria. Mr Graham Young, a senior lecturer at the Department of Architecture at UP, and a landscape architect involved in the design...

Faculty Research Theme, Visual Technologies: Critical Encounters, launches interdisciplinary and inter-medial project

Posted on August 31, 2015

Wednesday 5 August 2015 saw the momentous launching of an interdisciplinary and inter-medial project presented by the Faculty Research Theme, Visual Technologies: Critical Encounters. Ethnography from the Mission Field: The Hoffmann Collection of Cultural Knowledge by Annekie Joubert (Humboldt...

UP Visual Studies professor delivers keynote address. Digitising “Old Sotho Custom”: more visible and accessible?

Posted on July 30, 2015

In May 2015 Prof Lize Kriel, current Acting Head of the Visual Arts Department, delivered a keynote address at the Colloquium on ‘Print Culture and Colonisation in Africa’. Jointly hosted by the University of Pretoria and the University of Cape Town, in collaboration with Oxford...

UP Visual Studies Professor appointed in two key research-related capacities

Posted on July 29, 2015

Jeanne van Eeden, a Professor in the Department of Visual Arts, has recently been appointed in two key research-related capacities.

Visual Studies Prize Giving

Posted on March 27, 2015

The Visual Studies division at the Department of Visual Arts honoured their top performing students in 2014 at a small ceremony held on 23 March.