Posted on April 21, 2016
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.
Posted on April 21, 2016
The Visual Studies division at the Department of Visual Arts, UP, recently celebrated the success of the 2015 top-achievers in BA (Visual Studies).
Posted on April 13, 2016
The Fine Arts division in the Department of Visual Arts are having their annual staff exhibition.
Posted on April 12, 2016
On Saturday 9 April a workshop was held in the Department of Visual Arts for postgraduate students and staff in the Arts Cluster. More than 50 people attended.
Posted on March 17, 2016
The Faculty of Humanities is embarking on a project to put Digital Humanities on the research agenda by means of a digital platform entitled DIGITatUP.
Posted on February 01, 2016
The Department of Visual Art’s associated lecturer in Fine Arts Guy du Toit, is participating in a group exhibition, Making Africa – A continent of contemporary design at the Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain.
Posted on November 16, 2015
The Department of Visual Arts at the University of Pretoria invites you to the BA (Fine Arts) graduate exhibition.
Posted on November 02, 2015
At the 2015 annual South African Communication Association conference, hosted by AFDA, Cape Town, Prof Amanda du Preez presented a paper on the intersection between selfies and Doppelgängers.
Posted on September 24, 2015
Prof Jeanne van Eeden from the Department of Visual Arts recently presented a paper at the 30th annual conference of the South African Visual Arts Historians in Pietermaritzburg. The topic of the conference was power and visual culture and she delivered a paper entitled Postcards of Pretoria:...
Posted on September 22, 2015
The Barclays L’Atelier had their 30th opening and award ceromony on the 15th of July this year where Nina Kruger was awarded as merit prize winner.
Posted on September 16, 2015
Amanda du Preez is Professor in the Department of Visual Arts, where she has been teaching Visual Culture Studies since 2001. Some of the topics she teaches include Postmodernism; Visual Hermeneutics; Gender and Feminism; Critical Visual Culture Studies and importantly Virtual and Digital...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
Posted on March 22, 2015
Dr Johan Thom a senior Fine Arts lecturer from the University of Pretoria is currently exhibiting at the Goodman Gallery Johannesburg. Thom’s work is a mixture of irony, dark humour and light tragedy. His work comments on the self as arbiter of knowledge and source of agency.
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