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Self-representations and Facebook: an aesthetic of disappearance? by Prof Amanda du Preez
Visual Arts
Posted on 15 Feb 2013

Prof Amanda du Preez explores the relationship between traditional self portraits and Facebook profile pictures.

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Prof Leoni Schmidt of the Dunedin School of Arts presents a double seminar on 5 November
Visual Arts
Posted on 02 Nov 2012

Prof Schmidt's seminar will be on the "Dunedin School of Art and its International Initiatives"; and "Commensality and Contemporary Visual Arts Practices."

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Past[ssed?] encounters, visual(ised) and digital(ised): on archiving colonial knowledge
Visual Arts
Posted on 26 Sep 2012

A workshop presented by the Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria in collaboration with the UNISA Archives and the Institute for African Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin.

University of Pretoria, 1-2 October 2012.

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Thrilling! Contemporary Extremity
Visual Arts
Posted on 22 Feb 2012

On 6 February 2012, Prof Amanda du Preez presented a lecture at the Theological Day presented by the Faculty of Theology, University of Stellenbosch.

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Why does Marilyn Monroe remain immortal?
Visual Arts
Posted on 22 Feb 2012

Following shortly after the release of the film My week with Marilyn (2011, director Simon Curtis) the magazine SARIE interviewed experts on the topic of Marilyn’s undying fame.

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Special lecture on media archaeology
Visual Arts
Posted on 24 Oct 2011

The Department of Visual Arts presents: "Media archaeology and the impact of media technologies on culture. Some preliminary remarks on the study of media archaeology for the future of the humanities" by Dr Annie van den Oever.

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Gendered bodies and new technologies: Rethinking embodiment in a cyber-era
Visual Arts
Posted on 20 Jun 2011

Prof Amanda du Preez authors this timely volume on embodiment in an increasingly technology-driven society.

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The Department of Visual Arts presents: 'Art of the Diaspora, USA to SA and back' by Prof Amy Kirschke
Departement of Visual Arts
Posted on 26 May 2011

Join us for a lecture by visiting scholar Prof Amy Kirschke from the University of North Carolina Wilmington's Department of Art and Art History. Tuesday 31 May at 12:30, Visual Arts 3-1.

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Prof Jeanne van Eeden delivered her inaugural address
Visual Arts
Posted on 10 Jan 2011

Prof Jeanne van Eeden, Head of the Department Visual Arts at the University of Pretoria, delivered her inaugural address on 4 November 2010, titled "Figuring (out) the landscape: gazing at the land in selected South African postcards".

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Taking a Hard Look: Gender and Visual Culture edited by Amanda du Preez
Posted on 13 Jan 2010

It is the aim of this edited volume to take a hard look at gender and visual culture. Gender and visual culture traverse in quite unique and often fascinating ways.

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