All things digital at DUT for DigiFest
DURBAN University of Technology’s annual DigiFest is set for September 9 and 10.
The University’s City Campus will open its doors to the public for a series of live art activations, exhibitions, innovations, panel discussions, workshops, music, theatre, poetry, comedy, dance, food and more.
The opening night includes a DUT Alumni fundraising event for the “Missing Middle” campaign – a funding support initiative for students. It also features a performance by the award-winning a-capella trio The Soil, and includes the launch of the 24th International Symposium on Electronic Art (#ISEA2018), which takes place in Durban in 2018 – the first time in Africa. Several DUT academic programmes will participate in this year’s Digifest, alongside external partners and organisations working with digital technologies.
Interior design students present an exhibition of flatpack lazer-cut chair prototypes, designed and manufactured in conjunction with Durban Art Deco Society and Makerspace Durban.
Fine art students research, map, manufacture and present a series of objects entitled no-tech to lo-tech.
Bending Blackboards, an eLearning collection, includes work from practitioners interfacing with art, science and technology
The journalism programme will present photo essays and short documentaries. Written, video and audio coverage of the DigiFest will be streamed on the Journalismiziko online publication and online radio.
Graphic design students will exhibit portfolios that embrace a wide range of digital media for print or online publications, websites, online apps and other forms of visual communication.
DigiFest takes place at the DUT City Campus, corner of Dr Pixley Ka Seme (West) Street and Julius Nyerere (Warwick) Avenue on September 9 from noon to 10pm, and on September 10 from 10am to 10pm. All are welcome and entrance is free. The full programme will be released online on August 30.
This year's theme, “We are such stuff ”, is taken from William Shakespeare's The Tempest, to commemorate the 400-year anniversary of his death.
Visit www.digifest.dut.ac.za.