DigiFest’20 – Synergy
Promoting interdisciplinary collaborations across art, design and technology

The 7th edition of the DUT’s Faculty of Arts and Design Digital Festival (DigiFest’20) is calling for submission of creative works to be featured/exhibited in this year’s event themed “synergy.” The event aims to showcase synergy arising from interdisciplinary practices and responses to COVID-19 disruptions. Creative/innovative work can be submitted in two categories:

Category 1- Synergy: This category accepts creative works that reflects synergy from interdisciplinary, creative and innovative perspectives across art, design and technology

Category II- Response to COVID-19 and Beyond: This category accepts submission of creative work that captures one of the coronavirus key messages in form of awareness campaign or a social innovation that solves a specific problem/issue associated with the outbreak.

Deliverables:

Creative work: illustration & graphic design, product design (CAD Model/prototype), artwork images/ digital photograph, multimedia/ video (animation, drama/skit), game design, magazine article/poem, audio/visual (comedy, or music).

Details of work: Title; Year created and Technique

Description (150-300 words): Brief description of the creative/innovative work

Author(s) details: (Name & affiliation)

Submission: Kindly send all submissions via email to digifest@dut.ac.za on or before the closing date

For further enquiries, kindly contact:

Email: digifest@dut.ac.za

Tel: +27(0)31 373 645