June 23, 2025

Diana Vives and The Sky Beneath at the Iyatsiba Lab

The CHR was delighted to receive The Sky Beneath (2022) by artist and sculptor, Diana Vives, at the Iyatsiba Lab in June 2025. The Sky Beneath was originally exhibited at Everard Read in Cape Town, and is now mounted in the reception area of the Iyatsiba Lab. The title of this partially submerged sphere refers to the ancient Greek philosopher Anaximander, who in the 6th century BCE radically questioned prevailing worldviews, embracing uncertainty as a path to knowledge
June 18, 2025

Encounters Documentary Film Festival highlights: The Walk and The Shadow Scholars

The CHR, UWC and the UK-SA Bilateral Digital humanities chair in culture and technics will be hosting a number of Encounters Documentary Film Festival Events at the Iyatsiba Lab, including for the Encounters Infocus Industry Programme, Deeper Dialogues, Sharper Visions - One Story at a time (see the programme below). We are also pleased to announce the screening of two Digital humanities chair supported films: The Walk and The Shadow Scholars.
April 23, 2025

CUT faculty hosts the inaugural Research Centre on Human Technology interaction workshop to reimagine knowledge in a technological age

The Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment, and Information Technology (FEBIT) under the tutelage of  Prof. Wendy Setlalentoa, acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research Innovation and Engagement, recently kicked off its first workshop for the Research Centre on Human-Technology Interaction (CHTI).
March 27, 2025

‘Sensory Experiments, Sensory Orders, and Aesthetic Education’, by Premesh Lalu.

Erica Fretwell's Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (2020) raises crucial questions about the making of a concept of difference through marshaling the senses to the ends of a sensory order in postbellum United States.