By Takudzwa Makoni

The Durban University of Technology is proud to host the first ever Arts and Design Digital Festival!
From painting and poetry, to QR-Code exhibits.

Pop-up shops, pechakucha, music and dance…

As D.U.T. and JournalismIziko, we are always seeking to marry emerging technologies and practices, with traditional disciplines- to provide our students and our community with practicable, up-to-date instruction and opportunity.

Come and join Durban’s Arts community in celebrating this juxtaposition of Art, Design and Technology!

TIMES: Friday 12th September {5.P.M.-9.P.M.} and Saturday 13th September {12.P.M.- 10.P.M.}

*Shuttles to run every fifteen minutes between City Campus and Ritson Campus, parking available.

VENUE: D.U.T. City Campus, Dr. Pixley Kaseme Street { formerly West Street}.

Highlights:
Creative Code Fest {Lab 1}
Jenna-Leah Turpin, in association with Invotech, is running free workshops on Creative Coding- using programming as the medium for creating digital images.

Animations
: Watch stop-frame animations created by Fine Arts students under the tutelage of John Roome, using mobile phones! Join in and create your own!

Light-Paint Workshop {Studio 2}
Join Natasha Jacobs for a light painting workshop.

Experiment with glow sticks, torches and cellphones to create digital images that test the boundary between Fine Art and Photography.

Join in or just watch!

The Antidote {Arthur Smith Hall, 2P.M.-3.30P.M.}

The Antidote is centered on case histories of actual maximum security inmates’ serial killer crimes, and examines crime and punishment through the prism of prescribed morality- not for the squeamish!

Below are videos compiled by DUT’s journalism students highlighting life in South Africa twenty years into democracy

Video: Life in Bhambayi Settlement by Nhlanhlayethu Mthembu

Video: Life in Esikhaleni/Esikhawini by Sinenhlanhla Mthembu and Sihle Sikhakhane

Video: Tranformation of the youths in Chatworth by Michelle Harripersadth and Marcelle Naidoo

Video: Life in Umlazi by Gift Nyamapfene and Bliss Ndapasowa

Video: Life in Mariannridge by Khethukuthula Lembethe

Video: Life in Inanda by Neo Goba and Sphamandla Blose

Video: Life in the streets by Takudzwa Makoni and Raisa Nushera