Acclaimed scholar, Prof Gillian Rose, from the Open University, UK, recently visited the Department of Visual Arts at UP. The highlight of her visit was her Faculty Seminar entitled Seeing the digital city: interface, flow and friction. Prof Rose argued that because digital technologies are the means through which many cities are now made visible and their spatialities negotiated, the various implications of that digitisation for the cultural politics of representation require serious attention. She thus addressed questions such as: What and who is being made visible in these digitally mediated cities and how? What forms of urban materiality, spatiality and sociality are pictured and performed? And how should that picturing be theorised? This eye-opening and illuminating presentation was well attended by lecturers and students both in the Faculty of Humanities and further afield. Prof Rose’s visit to the Department was sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.