Bedste Arts Research Africa-podcasts (2024)

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Stephen Hobbs: Negotiating the complexities of Johannesburg with art practices 58:21

1M ago58:21

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In this dialogue, Prof Christo Doherty, the Chair of Research in the Wits School of Arts, speaks to Stephen Hobbs, a South African artist whose work spans a wide range of media, exploring themes of urban transformation, architecture, and social dynamics. Known for his thought-provoking installations and public art projects, Stephen has a distinctiv…

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Physics and the artistic imagination: Ariane Koek and Arts at CERN 59:23

3M ago59:23

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In this dialogue, Prof Christo Doherty, the Chair of Research in the Wits School of Arts, speaks to Ariane Koek, a prominent British independent producer, curator, and writer, recognized globally for her pioneering work at the intersection of art and science. With a career spanning several decades Ariane is particularly noted for founding the Arts …

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Ale de la Puente: Bridging philosophy and science through artistic practice 47:32

5M ago47:32

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In this dialogue, Prof Christo Doherty, the Chair of Research in the Wits School of Arts, speaks Ale de la Puente, an independent artist-researcher from Mexico who is doing a residency in Johannesburg as part of the Goethe Institute’s international Studio Quantum programme. Ale has studied industrial design, goldsmithing, boatbuilding, navigation, …

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Man makes flute from own bone: Ralph Borland artist researcher activist 56:24

8M ago56:24

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In this dialogue, Prof Christo Doherty, the Chair of Research in the Wits School of Arts, speaks to Dr Ralph Borland, an independent artist-researcher and curator based in Cape Town. Ralph has a degree in Fine Art from the University of Cape Town, a Masters in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University and a PhD in Electrical Engineeri…

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Miranda Moss: artist, outsider-engineer, eco-geek and rogue educator 48:27

9M ago48:27

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In this dialogue Prof Christo Doherty, the Chair of Research in the Wits School of Arts, speaks to Miranda Moss, a South African artist, outsider-engineer, eco-geek, and rogue educator who is currently based in Sweden. Miranda’s transdisciplinary practice, which focuses on the problematics and hopeful possibilities of technology from a socio-ecolog…

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Nathaniel Stern: teaching everyone how to sustain their work with entrepreneurial thinking 52:29

1y ago52:29

52:29

In this dialogue Prof Christo Doherty speaks to Professor Nathaniel Stern, an artist, writer and teacher who holds a 50/50 dual appointment at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as a Professor in Art and Design and Mechanical Engineering where “he teaches artists how to engineer, engineers how to art, and everyone how to sustain their work with …

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Bruce Barton - Understanding Artistic Research in terms of methods, knowledge, and impact 56:37

1+ y ago56:37

56:37

In this dialogue Prof Christo Doherty speaks to Professor Bruce Barton the Director of the University of Calgary’s School of Creative and Performing Arts, and the Co-Artistic Director (with Pil Hansen) of Vertical City, an interdisciplinary performance hub they co-founded in Toronto in 2007. Bruce is a teacher and theorist of artistic research and …

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Tanja Sakota: Using Artistic Research to uncover traumatic memories 56:23

1+ y ago56:23

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In this dialogue Prof Christo Doherty, the Chair of Research in the Wits School of Arts, speaks to Prof Tanja Sakota, an artistic researcher, writer, and filmmaker in the Department of Film & Television in the Wits School of Arts. Tanja is the author of an important new book, just published by Wits University Press, called Uncovering Memory: Filmin…

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Feeling at home everywhere and nowhere: Doris Bloom at the Origins Centre 41:23

1+ y ago41:23

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In this dialogue, Prof Christo Doherty, the Chair of Research in the Wits School of Arts, speaks to Doris Bloom, a multidisciplinary South African artist who has been based in Denmark since 1976. She currently has a major exhibition called Bird Bone Whistler at the Origins Centre Museum in Johannesburg until 02 July 2023. Doris was born on a farm o…

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Sela Adjei - the power of authentically African artistic research 51:50

1+ y ago51:50

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In this dialogue, Prof Christo Doherty, the Chair of Research in the Wits School of Arts, speaks to Dr Sela Adjei, a multidisciplinary artist, researcher and curator from Ghana and a leading proponent of a distinctly African approach to artistic research. Sela has degrees in communication design and African art and culture from the Kwame Nkrumah Un…

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Jayne Batzofin & RETAGS - the challenges of archiving performance-as-research 53:29

1+ y ago53:29

53:29

In this dialogue Prof Christo Doherty of ARA speaks to Jayne Batzofin, the digital archivist on the Reimagining Tragedy from African and the Global South (RETAGS) project. This performance-as-research project is being led by Prof. Mark Fleishman with Mandla Mbothwe in the Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies at University of Cape Town.…

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The artist's sensibility in research and pedagogy: David Andrew at Wits 44:58

1+ y ago44:58

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In this dialogue Prof Christo Doherty of ARA speaks to Prof David Andrew, from the Department of Fine Arts in the Wits School of Arts. We focus on the relationship between arts pedagogies and artistic research looking at his background as an arts teacher, the formative influence of his education in both South Africa and Swaziland during apartheid, …

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The Arts Research Africa project after five years of Mellon funding 50:38

2y ago50:38

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In this concluding podcast of the Mellon funding cycle, the ARA podcast's technical producer (and journalist) Elna Schutz hosts a discussion with the key members of the ARA project about what was achieved, what was learnt, and what opportunities were missed during the 5 + 1 years of the Mellon grant. Prof Brett Pyper, the ARA principle investigator…

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From visual identities to bioart: Leora Farber and the VIAD Research Centre 51:20

2y ago51:20

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In this dialogue Prof Christo Doherty of ARA speaks to Leora Farber Associate Professor and Director of the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre, in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Johannesburg . Under Leora’s leadership the Centre has become a vibrant hub where an international community of visiting profes…

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Creative Research & the artists' books of Schäpers, Silverberg & Chen 34:28

2y ago34:28

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In this special episode in the ARA podcast series, Prof Christo Doherty of ARA speaks to three internationally acclaimed and award-winning artists about their creative research into the possibilities of the book as an artwork. Veronica Schapers, Robbin Amy Silverberg, and Julie Chen are showing a range of their artists books in a spell-binding new …

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Brett Pyper: From Jazz Cosmologies to the Cosmopolitan Collective 55:33

2y ago55:33

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In this dialogue Prof Christo Doherty of ARA speaks to Prof Brett Pyper, the Principal Investigator on the ARA project and the leader of a major interdisciplinary research project based on popular manifestations of jazz culture in South Africa. Currently called the Cosmopolitan Collective, the project has evolved over the last 17 years from an init…

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Ways-of-Remembering-Existing: donna Kukama rewrites history & writes performance 50:24

2y ago50:24

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In this dialogue Prof Christo Doherty of ARA speaks to donna Kukama, a South African born interdisciplinary artist who works with performance, works on canvas, sculptural objects, video, and site-specific installation. The underlying topic of this conversation is how donna uses performance art and other practices as tools for artistic research, ela…

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Shooting Down Babylon (The Art of War): The performance art of Tracey Rose 46:41

2+ y ago46:41

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In this dialogue Prof Christo Doherty of ARA speaks to Tracey Rose, currently Senior Lecturer in the Fine Arts department in the Wits School of Arts, and internationally renowned as an artist who works across a range of practices, but most notably as a performance artist using her body. Tracey’s work has recently been featured in a major retrospect…

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Art, Research, and Innovation: Hannelie Coetzee's ecological public art 51:00

2+ y ago51:00

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In this dialogue Prof Christo Doherty of ARA speaks to Hannelie Coetzee, a Johannesburg-based ecological artist who has been working across the boundaries of art, science and activist engagement. Hannelie describes herself as a visual artist, researcher and innovator. Through her ecological art practice, she aims to grow audiences that appreciate a…

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Invisibility and hyper-visibility: Portia Malatjie and Nontobeko Ntombela on curating When Rain Clouds Gather 59:19

2+ y ago59:19

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In this dialogue, Prof Christo Doherty of ARA speaks to Dr Portia Malatjie and Nontobeko Ntombela, the curators of When Rain Clouds Gather, an important new exhibition at the Norval Foundation in Cape Town. The exhibition is a reflection on the influential and often unacknowledged contribution of Black Women to South African art history in the 20th…

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Avril Joffe: Engaging Arts Policy with Creative Methodologies 1:00:20

2+ y ago1:00:20

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In this dialogue, Prof Christo Doherty of ARA speaks to Avril Joffe, currently the postgraduate programme coordinator and previously the Head of the Department of Cultural Policy and Management in the Wits School of Arts. Under Avril’s headship the department was renamed to focus on cultural policy and management, and has developed a range of produ…

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Interlocutor/halfie: Dr George Mahashe on being a Molobedu, an artist and an academic 1:04:57

2+ y ago1:04:57

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In this dialogue, Prof Christo Doherty of ARA speaks to Dr George Mahashe, a lecturer in Fine Arts at the University of Cape Town, who was recently based at the Geneva Observatory as part of the Swiss Artists-in-Labs programme. George talks about his work at the Observatory and his perspective on the experience as a black African who has a acute aw…

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Exploring the spaces between - Marcus Neustetter's playful interventions into art, science, and public engagement 1:01:59

2+ y ago1:01:59

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In this dialogue Prof Christo Doherty of ARA speaks to Marcus Neustetter, the South African artist, cultural activist, and producer who has been working at the intersection of art, science, technology and public engagement for the last two decades since his graduation with an MAFA from Wits in 2001. They discuss some of the collaborative projects t…

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Irène Hediger & Artists-in_Labs: exploring the unknown across diverse disciplines 56:20

3y ago56:20

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In this dialogue, I speak to Irène Hediger, the director of the Artists-in -Labs programme based at the Zurich University of the Arts in Switzerland. The programme, which has now been running continuously for the last nineteen years, is one of the most successful Arts-Science initiatives in the world and has initiated and managed over 50 creative e…

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Art-Science engagements: Karel Nel's brilliant darkness 58:54

3y ago58:54

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In this dialogue, I explore the challenging and increasingly important concept of Art~Science creative collaboration with one of the leading International practitioners in this field, the South African artist, Karel Nel. Until 2017, Karel was an Associate Professor in the department of Fine Arts at Wits, and is an internationally regarded artist as…

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Re-centering Africa through artistic research and decolonial pedagogy: a conversation with Prof Samuel Ravengai 57:02

3y ago57:02

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In this dialogue, I speak to Prof Samuel Ravengai, a leading exponent of artistic research into African modes of performance and theatre making, a multi faceted mode of enquiry that he theorises as Afroscenology. Samuel is a Zimbabwean born, South African based, scholar and theatre director with a doctorate in Theatre and Performance from the Unive…

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Taking contemporary art practice into the forensic lab: a conversation with Dr Kathryn Smith 1:06:32

3y ago1:06:32

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Dr Kathryn Smith is an interdisciplinary visual artist and curator who has moved from an initial education in Fine Arts (with a BAFA and MAFA from Wits) to actively explore applied sciences at the University of Dundee where she earned an MSc in Forensic Art, and a PhD from the Liverpool John Moores University. It is a journey that has taken her fro…

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ARA Podcast - A ludic approach to artistic research - a conversion with Prof Margarete Jahrmann 44:15

3+ y ago44:15

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In this dialogue I speak to Professor Margarete Jahrmann, the internationally renowned media artist, artistic researcher and games theorist who has just been appointed head of the new department of Experimental Game Cultures at the Vienna University of Applied Arts. Margarete was previously a Professor in Artistic Research at the Vienna University …

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At the centre of the Centre for the Less Good Idea - a conversation with Bronwyn Lace 55:50

3+ y ago55:50

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In this dialogue I speak to Bronwyn Lace, perhaps best known as the animateur, and now co-director, of the Centre for the Less Good Idea in Johannesburg, but who is also a visual artist with specificity, responsiveness and performativity as central concerns in her practice. We explore all these aspects of her rich engagement with performance and vi…

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ARA Podcast - The aesthetic as a research modality - a conversation with Dr Alex Arteaga 47:57

3+ y ago47:57

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In this dialogue I speak to Dr Alex Arteaga, a leading European artist-researcher who works with text, sound, video, photography, essays and installations according to the nature of his projects and their specific research issues. Alex has received professional degrees in piano and theory of music, has a Masters degree in electro-accoustic music. H…

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ARA Podcast - Artistic Research in Africa - a conversation with Berhanu Ashagrie Deribew 55:54

3+ y ago55:54

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In this ARA dialogue I speak with the Ethiopian artist-researcher who gave the closing address at our ARA2020 Conference. Berhanu is currently a lecturer in the Alle School of Fine Arts and Design at Addis Ababa University and is a doctoral candidate in the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Alle Scho…

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ARA Podcast - Transversing the Rural - a conversation with Dr Same Mdluli 41:35

4y ago41:35

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In this dialogue I speak to Dr Same Mdluli, who was the recipient of a 2020 ARA grant for her book project: Transversing the Rural: Revisiting the works of South African artist Johannes Mashego Segogela. Dr Mdluli is the Manager and Chief Curator of the Standard Bank Gallery in Johannesburg and an Associate Researcher in the Wits School of Arts. Sh…

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ARA Podcast - Researching the Arts of Movement - a conversation with Prof Jane Taylor 56:39

4+ y ago56:39

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In this dialogue I speak to Professor Jane Taylor, who, together with Nhlanhla Mahlangu, gave the opening performance and dialogue, at the ARA2020 Conference, which was held here at Wits University in January. Jane currently holds the Andrew W. Mellon Chair of Aesthetic Theory and Material Performance at the Centre for Humanities Research, Universi…

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ARA Podcast - The Journal for Artistic Research: a conversation with Dr Michael Schwab 52:19

4+ y ago52:19

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In this dialogue I speak to Dr Michael Schwab, the co-initiator and inaugural Editor-in-Chief of JAR, the Journal for Artistic Research. Michael was most recently a keynote speaker at the ARA2020 Conference, on the theme of artistic research in Africa, which was held here at Wits University in January. As a JAR editor and a leading exponent of the …

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ARA Podcast - The Hybrid model of Performance-Research: A conversation with Mark Fleishman 48:11

4+ y ago48:11

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In this ARA dialogue I speak with Mark Fleishman, Professor and Head of the Centre for Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, University of Cape Town and artistic director (together with Jennie Reznik and Mandla Mbothwe) of Magnet Theatre, an independent theatre company he established in Cape Town in 1987. Mark has been a leading figure in the de…

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ARA Podcast - Performance and Research: a discussion with Annette Arlander. 35:46

5y ago35:46

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In this ARA dialogue I speak with the first ARA artist-in-residence of 2020, Annette Arlander. Professor Arlander is an artist, researcher and a teacher, and one of the pioneers of Finnish performance art, as well as being a trailblazer of artistic research in Scandinavia. As an ARA artisti-in-residence- she will be based in the Theatre and Perform…

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ARA Podcast - Bones and Dinosaurs: Art/Science collaborations 56:44

5y ago56:44

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In this ARA dialogue I speak to three Wits academics who have creatively engaged, in both their research and teaching, with the interface between Scientific and Artistic research. My guests are Dr Justine Wintjes and Joni Brenner who were both members of the History of Art department in the Wits School of Arts at the time of this collaborative proj…

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ARA Podcast - Creativity, agency, and African feminisms 46:25

5y ago46:25

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In this ARA dialogue I speak to Professor Sharlene Khan and Fouad Asfour about the recent African Feminisms (Afems) Conference which was held at the Wits School of Arts from 5 to 7th September. Sharlene and Fouad were both organizers of the conference together with Lynda Gichanda Spencer. Sharlene is an associate professor in the department of Fine…

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ARA Podcast - New developments in Artistic Research in Europe 40:22

5y ago40:22

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In this ARA dialogue, I discuss new developments in the European space of Artistic Research with Professor Stefan Winter, Head of the Institute of Artistic Research at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in Potsdam, Germany. Prof Winter also represents Germany in a new institutional development: the European Forum for Advanced Practices, an …

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ARA Podcast - the innovative new PhD programme in Drama for Life 42:59

5y ago42:59

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In this ARA dialogue, we discuss the new PhD programme at Drama for Life in the Wits School of Arts. This programme, launched in 2017, has just won the 2019 Wits Faculty of Humanities Individual Teaching and Learning Award for Postgraduate Teaching. The designer of the programme, Dr Petro Janse van Vuuren, and the head and founder of Drama For Life…

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ARA Podcast - Ethnographies and Art Practices as Research in Africa 48:11

5+ y ago48:11

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In this ARA dialogue, we look at the changing relationship between ethnographies and art practice as research in Africa. The dialogue was prompted by the recent workshop on African ethnographies which was organised by Dr Jung Ran Annachiara Forte and Prof Sakhumzi Mfecane from the Department of Anthropolog and Sociology at the University of the Wes…

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ARA Podcast - The Challenge of publishing artistic research on a digital platform 44:39

5+ y ago44:39

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In this ARA dialogue, we explore the thinking behind Ellipses the innovative online publishing platform for creative research that has been just issued a submission call for its third issue. [www.ellipses.org.za] The editor-in-chief/digital editor of Ellipses, Dr Tegan Bristow, and the editor of issue 3, Dr Mareli Stolp, are in discussion with Prof…

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ARA Podcast - Denise Nicholson: Open Access, APCs, and Predatory Publishing Practices 1:03:16

6y ago1:03:16

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Open Access is an international movement that aims to “make the products of research freely accessible to all.” Here in the global South, the movement is becoming increasingly influential across many universities, with Wits adopting Open Access as official policy in June 2018. In this ARA podcast, Denise Nicholson, the Scholarly Communications Libr…

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ARA Podcast - Did Watershed bridge the Art-Science divide? 50:52

6y ago50:52

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Did the Watershed Conference bridge the Art-Science chasm? A dialogue between Prof Lenore Manderson and Christo Doherty. This is the 7th dialogue in the Arts Research Africa, Creative Work Supervision series in The Wits School of Arts and was held on Wed 17 October. Lenore Manderson conceptualised and directed the historic, Watershed: Art, science …

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ARA Podcast - Where do you look for lost water? 40:13

6y ago40:13

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Where do you look for lost water? - Artistic research, arts pedagogy, and environmental politics in the Global South. A dialogue between Prof Atul Bhalla and Prof David Andrew. Held on Wed 10 October CNS Smart Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Solomon Mahlangu House. The recent ARA Artist in Residence in The Wits School of Arts, Athul Bhalla, is in dialogue…

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ARA Podcast - Beyond the Ready Made 35:53

6y ago35:53

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This is a podcast of the 5th dialogue in the Arts Research Africa, Creative Work Supervision series in The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Entitled “Can we go beyond the Readymade? - the creation of new artistic works and the art of collaboration (within an academic environment)”, this was a dialogue between ARA …

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Digital Media Aesthetics in the time of Climate Crisis 46:11

6y ago46:11

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In this podcast of the 4th dialogue in the Arts Research Africa series, Christo Doherty and Thomas Pringle explore the question of how computer models, and forms of digital visualisation, have evolved a new digital media aesthetics that has a complex relationship with the understanding of climate crisis in the 21st century. Thomas Pringle is a Brow…

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Why the Creative Work PhD at Wits? 42:17

6+ y ago42:17

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Why the Creative Work PhD at Wits? A dialogue with Prof Gerrit Olivier. This dialogue introduces the Creative Work PhD supervision seminar series in the Wits School of Arts, University of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. The series is part of the Arts Research Africa project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The seminar/dia…

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