Humans have been fascinated with the notion of submerging themselves
in other spaces since antiquity, or even before. As the contemporary media landscape
seeks to employ newer immersive practices, particularly in today’s ...
While sight and hearing have been privileged in the philosophical formulation of aesthetics, the significance of touch to the experience of art has not enjoyed much attention at all. In order to displace sight and reinstate ...
Haese, Adrie(Common Ground Research Networks, 2024-06)
The demand for children’s reading materials that are representative of the diverse population of South Africa and that address language and affordability issues has given rise to several book creation initiatives by local ...
Rath, Kyle A.(Pretoria University Law Press, 2022)
Anyone living in a post-industrial society consumes and interacts with
typography daily, albeit often unconsciously. For many of us, typography
primarily is a linguistic or lexical tool; a vehicle by which we can ...
From February 2020, media coverage surrounding the spread of Covid-19
(acronym for the coronavirus disease of 2019) accelerated to the point where it
has become the most exhaustively covered pandemic in recent times. ...
Sinethemba Ngubane is an artist who works predominantly in the medium of ceramics but includes sculptures in large installations. She was born in 1991 in Durban, South Africa, and completed a national diploma in Fine Art ...
In the medical literature of South Africa in the early twentieth century, Dr Thomas Duncan Greenlees published a dehumanized portrayal of people with intellectual disability (PWID) who were institutionalized at the Grahamstown ...
Price, Erin Kindlund; Van Eeden-Wharton, Adrienne(Sage, 2023-01)
With Spider(s) as our guide, we tentatively prod and turn felt concepts of situatedness and entanglement; stickiness and attachment; plasticity and pliability; precarity, uncertainty, and leaps of vulnerability. Inspired ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In 2017, while living in two geographically distant locations, South African artist Katherine Bull and French artist Emmanuel de Montbron collaborated on a project in which they used mobile phones and an online blog to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...