• "What will happen to me if I fail your test?" : an exploration of femininity as a tool in Ex Machina (2015) and Westworld (2016) 

  Rengger, Riley (University of Pretoria, 2023-03)

  The representation of femininity on screen is a frequently explored topic, particularly in the science fiction genre, and has often been referred to as reflecting broader social ideas pertaining to femininity and technology. ...
• Exploring the development of formal and conceptual skills of Grade 10 Visual Art learners within an online environment 

  Fourie, Clinton (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  Visual Arts, a specialist school subject, is taught in a limited amount of schools in South Africa and contain both practical and theoretical lessons. The lessons and curriculum for this secondary school subject are ...
• Decentralise everything : a critical analysis of crypto art and non-fungible tokens as Egalitarian artefacts 

  Gawaya, Timothy (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  This study surveys the emergent artistic phenomenon identified as Crypto Art in relation to a perceived artistic decentralisation immanent to the orientation. Crypto Art delineates an artistic orientation predicated on the ...
• Exploring illusion in the work of Robin Rhode and Lauren Moffatt through the investigation of truth, reality, and perception 

  Brown, Claudia (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  The research aims to prove that illusion is more than just a trick of the eye, but rather a multifaceted tool that can impact meaning and conceptual thought and practice. In this research illusion is understood and defined ...
• Visualising Southern African late iron age settlements in the digital age 

  Siyotula, Sikho (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  VISUALISING SOUTHERN AFRICAN LATE IRON AGE SETTLEMENTS IN THE DIGITAL AGE studies the visualisation of Southern African Late Iron Age Settlements (LIAS) (c. 900–1800) across the late nineteenth, twentieth, and early ...
• Placed, displaced, and replaced : an exploration into a hybrid South African identity 

  Greyling, Viola (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  This study explores my experiences as a displaced person through processes of immigration that contributed to my hybrid identity. I narrate my experiences as a white, South African, Afrikaans-speaking woman who was affected ...
• A foundational approach towards the relationship between mark-making, freedom, and meaning in selected works by David Koloane and Dylan Graham 

  Graham, Dylan T. (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  The artistic phenomenon referred to as ‘mark-making' is a foundational artistic process in creative practice. In this practice based artistic research project, I will explore the relationship between mark-making, freedom ...
• An autoethnographic practice-based study : exploring the use of Generative Adversarial Networks within the working processes of printmaking 

  Van den Bergh, Amy Jane (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  This research explores the creative effects of including Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in the printmaking working process. A GAN is an artificially intelligent computer model trained to mimic the abstract properties ...
• Introducing play in design higher education : a South African case study 

  Van der Merwe, Marguerite (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  From a design education lens, this study aims to understand how play could be included as part of the student design process. Hence, the study is situated at the intersection of three key areas, namely play, design higher ...
• An exploration of human-centered design as a means to improve radiology environments in public hospitals In South Africa 

  Spangenberg, Lizette (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  This thesis explores the landscape of human-centered design as found in South African healthcare. It then applies this framework in the context of radiology departments and environments in public hospitals in South Africa. ...
• A visual analysis of 2019's #AmINext? movement 

  Mpontshane, Nhlosenhle (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  As a result of Uyinene Mrwetyana’s murder in 2019, protest action under the banner of #AmINext? manifested itself near the steps of Parliament in Cape Town. When masses of predominantly female marchers assembled wielding ...
• An exploration of a hermeneutic of empathy for epistemological approaches to design thinking 

  Kok, Wynand André (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  This study turns to Heideggerian phenomenology as a counter to reductive and cognitivist conceptions of empathy and as a response to a provocation towards adding rigour to the concept of empathy within design discourse. ...
• A critical reading of the myths in Oliver Hermanus’s Moffie (2019) and Christiaan Olwagen’s Kanarie (2018) 

  Maas, Hendrik Christiaan (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  The study focuses on two contemporary LGBTQI films that were periodised during the South African Border War: Kanarie (Olwagen 2018) and Moffie (Hermanus 2019) with the aim to identify myths prevalent in their visual ...
• New materialism and gender - (re) configuring human and robotic embodiment 

  Kock, Michelle (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  Dominant understandings of sex, gender and sexuality align with patriarchal ideology that maintains misogyny, sexism and male supremacy. A critical feature of the aforementioned gender paradigm is strict mutually exclusive ...
• Weefkuns in Suider-Afrika met besondere verwysing na tapyte en tapisseriee 

  Van der Walt, Maria Catharina (University of Pretoria, 1979)

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• Resisting the sacramental : an analysis of contemporary Afrikaner culture’s embrace of kitsch 

  Van den Heever, Hesta (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  This study explores the phenomenon of kitsch as found and embraced within contemporary Afrikaner culture. The two spheres that this study specifically looks at is that of popular mega church, Christian Revival Church (CRC), ...
• An artistic exploration of sand sites in Waterberg, Namibia, as palimpsests of eco-geo-cultural history and identity 

  Cowley, Kerstin (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  In this study I explore the Waterberg plateau, Namibia, through identified sand sites in the area, looking into their ecology, geology, culture, and history. I use sand as an artistic medium, not only for its aesthetic ...
• #SCANDAL : an exploration of social media in light of René Girard’s mimetic theory 

  Chetty, Denél (University of Pretoria, 2020)

  Social media can be perceived as forging one’s relationships and influencing one’s world view, but has it always allowed individuals to connect meaningfully? It mesmerises and grips the mind of its users. It fascinates, ...
• Creating Convenience : How Virtual Reality allows for Augmented Relationships 

  Giebler, Martin Eberhard (University of Pretoria, 2020)

  This dissertation uses Heidegger’s critique of technology and its essence in an attempt to understand how Virtual Reality technology can change how we interact with the world and each other. The history of VR devices is ...
• Towards Creative Astonishment : A Metaxological Approach to Design 

  Nel, Gideon Phillipus (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  This study offers a philosophical hermeneutic of design. It aims to achieve this by exploring William Desmond’s metaphysics, specifically his fourfold sense of being, and how it relates to design. Desmond’s fourfold sense ...

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