• Conservation science education online (CSEO) – a heritage science resource 

  Murray, Alison; Biggs, Kyna; Shugar, Aaron; Ploeger, Rebecca; Uffelman, Erich; Stols-Witlox, Maartje; Gonzales, Patricia; Smith, Gregory D.; Loubser, Maggi; Lopez, Laura Fuster; Di Pietro, Giovanna; Sah, Anupam; Nevin, Austin; Sardarli, Arzu; Wei, Shuya; Casanova-Gonzalez, Edgar (De Gruyter, 2023-09-23)

  Conservation Science Education Online (CSEO) is a new online resource that shares strategies for teaching science in art conservation and related cultural heritage fields. An overview will be given of how undergraduate ...
• Unmasking the dictator : how digital technologies expose authoritarianism in Belarus and Zimbabwe 

  Mututwa, Wishes Tendayi; Akpojivi, Ufuoma (Intellect, 2023-07)

  Authoritarian governments seem to use the same methods of coercion the world over. Recent developments in Belarus and Zimbabwe resonate with this observation. President Alexander Lukashenko prevailed in a deeply flawed and ...
• Where to look? Sustaining presence while directing attention in virtual reality stories 

  Walter, Michael (AIM, 2023)

  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 ...
• What blind people can teach sighted viewers about art 

  Lauwrens, Jennifer (Routledge, 2024)

  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 ...
• Illustrating for the common good : South African illustrator perceptions of book creation initiatives and open licensing 

  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 ...
• Chapter 6 : The typographic sensorium : a cross-modal reading of letterforms 

  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 ...
• The rhetoric of Covid-19 : numbers and stats and maps – oh my 

  Rath, Kyle (Routledge, 2022)

  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. ...
• African vernacular symbols of black intersex children in Sinethemba Ngubane's installations (2007-2016) 

  James, Sule Ameh (MIT Press, 2023-06-01)

  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 ...
• People with intellectual disability at the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum : humanizing photographs, stories and narratives from the casebooks, 1890–1920 

  Du Plessis, Rory (Routledge, 2023)

  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 ...
• Spiderly sympoiesis : tensegral tentacularity and speculative clews 

  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 ...
• "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 ...
• Multisensory narratives of home and belonging : investigating virtual representations of physical places in Towards Telepathy (2017) and Home Museum (2020) 

  Lauwrens, Jennifer (Routledge, 2022)

  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 ...
• Potential pesticide contamination in repatriated artifacts in African museums : the need for the adoption of safety protocols for access and use of hazardous artifacts 

  Chiwara, Davison; O'Connell, Siona; Loubser, Maggi (Routledge, 2023)

  This article discusses the issue of potential pesticide contaminants in artifacts that are being repatriated by museums from the global north to Africa. It highlights that the issue of scientific testing of artifacts for ...
• 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 ...

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