Posted on December 06, 2023
The art of storytelling is much like constructing & writing a play. In illustrating, drawing, painting, sculpting, compositing, designing, photographing & editing imagery on the page, screen or space, the storyteller acts out, visually, a play of rhetorical signs.
Posted on July 18, 2022
On 28 April 2023, Deneesher Pather, Assistant Lecturer in Visual Studies and Doctoral Student in Digital Media & Culture, took part in the Four Corners Feminism, Photography & Resistance Symposium. This research event brings together an international group of artists, writers and...
Posted on July 18, 2022
During the week of 10 - 16 April staff and postgraduate students from the division of Fine Art at the University of Pretoria were joined in South Africa by their counterparts from the Academy of Fine Art Vienna for a week-long workshop in art-based methodologies. This workshop formed part of two...
Posted on February 26, 2021
Deneesher Pather to participate in discussion forum with the University of Gothenburg
Posted on September 01, 2020
Community and connection are concepts that many of us have missed out on during the Covid-19 pandemic. The creative sector of the economy, especially, depends on gathering, communicating and communal engagement. The artistic industry has therefore experienced an exceptional loss, not only...
Posted on June 09, 2020
In 2007, the United Nations were requested to create an International Archives Day and so 9 June 1948 marks the day that the International Council on Archives (ICA) was created under the auspices of UNESCO. The University of Pretoria (UP) Museums are promoting the International Archive Day...
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.
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.
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