MEET THE TEAM
Prof Amanda du Preez
Amanda du Preez is Professor in the School of the Arts at the University of Pretoria,
where she teaches Visual Culture and Digital Culture and Media. Her book
publications include Gendered Bodies and New Technologies: Rethinking
Embodiment in a Cyber-era (2009), Voices from the South. Digital Arts and
Humanities (2018) and Art, the Sublime and Movement: Spaced Out (2022). She
served as assistant editor of two accredited journals, Image & Text, and De Arte.
She has also served on the Advisory Board of the international journal Persona
Studies, and the Governing Board of the International Association for Visual Culture
(IAVC). Currently she serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the Digital
Humanities Association of Southern Africa, as well the managing committee of the
Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa’s (DHASA). She is also the Chair
of the Arts Commission of the South African Academy for the Sciences.
Dr Karli Brittz
Karli Brittz is a scholar in digital culture and media studies. She is a postdoctoral
candidate in the School of the Arts at the University of Pretoria, where she teaches
Visual Culture Studies and Digital Culture and Media. Karli obtained a PhD in Visual
Studies from the School of the Arts at the University of Pretoria and received the
NIHSS award for best digital humanities visualisation project in 2021. Her main
research and teaching interests are the complexities of being human in the digital
age, as well as critically considering digital culture in relation to teaching and
learning.
HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE
This guide has been designed to be used in a variety of ways:
You can start at the beginning and work your way through the various themes
and completing the activities. Using the guide in this way, you will be exposed to
various themes in digital humanities and image scholarship, as well as practice
various digital skills to work with images.
Or, alternatively, you can select various sections of the guides which cover
issues that are relevant to you at the moment. For example, if you are working
on a video essay project you can look at the section “postdigital selves” as well
as the “digital toolkit” for practical advise and applications.
There are also various examples included throughout the guide to illustrate
ideas, tools and critical reflection essays. All of the examples are taken from
student work in the unit VKK756: Visual and Digital Scholarship.
Student Team
The VKK756 Honours students at the University of
Pretoria 2023 contributed their work and ideas to
this project. They include:
Denise Siima, Emma Schipholt, Janka Meyer,
Jaudynn Denton, Megan Kimber, Phenyo
Masenya, Rebecca Martin, Viljoen Swanepoel and
Xander Conradie
