Current Students:
MA History of Art
Stephanie Keyter
Preliminary title, Visuele kunste en geslagsgebaseerde geweld: ’n vigilante feministiese benadering tot trauma en genesing
Vigilante Feminism, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Gender-Based Violence
Danél Boshoff
Preliminary title, Homomasculine performativity and the legitimisation of hegemonic Afrikaner ideals in Oliver Hermanus's Skoonheid (2011) and Etienne Kallos's Die Stropers (2019)
Gender studies; South African Film; Afrikaans Cinema; Performativity; Homomasculinity; Hegemonic Masculinity
Héniel Fourie
Preliminary title, Time and disillusionment in Christiaan Olwagen's Johnny is nie dood nie (2017)
Visuele kunste en geslagsgebaseerde geweld: ’n vigilante feministiese benadering tot trauma en genesing
Film & Video Directing; Production Design; Sound Design & CinematographyVigilante Feminism, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Gender-Based Violence
MA Graphic Design
Tian Nigrini
Preliminary title, Narrative spatial architecture as a vehicle for the creation of non-linear narrative spaces in a carnivalesque storyworld
Carnivalesque, Narrative clues, Narrative space, Narrative spatial architecture, Non-linear narrative, Interactive space design.
Ricardo Liut
Preliminary title, ʼn Fotografiese verkenning van neo-argetipiese karakters in “The Simpsons”
Research interests include, Photography; Multimedia Design & Graphic Design
PhD History of Art
Andrew Swanepoel
Preliminary title, Confessional Testimony and Performance: Exposing the Rituals of Gender as Experienced by Former Conscripts in the South African Defence Force Through Embodied Storytelling
Research interests include, Performance Art; Gender; Gendered Institutions; Activism
Graduated 2021
PhD History of Art
Colette Lotz
Thesis Title: Storyworlds in The Household by the “Blackheart Gang”
Research interests include, Transmedia Narratology; Storyworlds; Postcolonialism; Illustration Art & Fine Arts, Painting (oil)
Willem Venter
Thesis Title: Dissensus within dissensus: Odd Nerdrum’s Kitsch movement and the aesthetic regime of Jacques Rancière
Research interests include, Representative Figurative and Landscape Painting; Kitsch & Dissensus
MA History of Art
Rina de Klerk
Dissertation Title: Aan die waterkant: heterochronotopie en verganklikheid in Guy du Toit se strandtonele / On the water’s edge: heterochronotopy and transience in Guy du Toit’s beach scenes
Research interests include, Ecocriticism; Memory Studies & Materiality and Temporality in Contemporary South African Art
MA Graphic Design
Kunashe Manyame
Dissertation Title: Design for maternal health: collaborating with medical staff to facilitate community-centred and continuous maternity care
Research interests include, Action Research, Human-Centred Design, Social Design, Public Health
Evan Reyneke
Dissertation Title: Developing characters and narrative by means of narrative identification through the Value Systems Theory and the Rashomon Effect
Research interests include, Characterisation; Character Development & Design; Narratology; Values & Animation
Graduated 2020
MA History of Art
Suanné Mulder
Dissertation Title: An interpretation of death and religion in Judith Mason's Inferno (2006) and Purgatory (2007)
Research interests include, Art therapy and Psychology, Religiosity, Political Commentary
MA Graphic Design
Gustaf Tempelhoff
Dissertation Title, Koppelvlakontwerp om plekspesifieke digitale literatuur toeganklik te maak vir gebruikers met siggestremdheid
Research interests include, Accessibility; Interface Design; Human-Centred Design; Universal Design; Interaction Design & Electronic Literature
Graduated 2019
MA History of Art
Mariette Sorgdrager
Dissertation Title: Die potensiële problematiek van kulturele toeëiening in Hosh Tokolosh
Research interests include, Culture; Cultural Appropriation; Cultural Politics; Intercultural Management
Mariette.Sorgdrager@edu.fh-kaernten.ac.at
Ellynette Lartz
Dissertation Title: Moontlike wêrelde in Steven Cohen se Put your heart under your feet ... and walk!
Research interests include, Metamodernism; Performativity; Postclassical Visual Narratology; Narrativity; Possible Worlds Theory & Queer Studies
ellynette.van.rensburg@gmail.com
Graduated 2018
MA History of Art
Mart Gey van Pittius
Dissertation Title: Narratiewe identiteit en -herinneringe as paratekste in gekose werke deur Mary Sibande en Nandipha Mntambo
Research interests include, Narratives, Identity, Art Education
Graduated 2017
MA Graphic Design
Jo-Ann Chan
Dissertation Title, Dissensus within dissensus: Visualising the voices of Redan an experimental application of forensic anthropology and narrative identity to a disappearing landscape
Research interests include, Design Pedagogy; Book Arts; Illustration; Interdisciplinary Arts & Narrative Identity