Visual/forensic artist & pracademic; PhD (Forensic Art). Senior lecturer Visual Arts, Stellenbosch University; VIZ.Lab
Joined September 2011
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16 Jul 2022
Latest episode of How to Die, featuring yours truly howtodie.co.za/episodes/18-t… 💀🖌👩🏽💻@DeathRef do you know this resource? Great content for #deathlings everywhere, listen back & subscribe! #deathpositive #forensicart #postmortem #humanidentification #restitutiin #justice
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31 May 2023
Full paper published in PlosOne is now available @serialworks @UCT_news news.uct.ac.za/article/-2023…
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26 May 2023
Face Lab impact in South Africa @serialworks news.uct.ac.za/article/-2023…
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30 Jul 2022
In this second day of conference, Dr Kathryn Smith (@serialworks) from Stellenbosch University, is presenting the Sutherland Restitution Initiative which is an ongoing process on facial depiction.
#IACI2022
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29 Jul 2022
During the #IACI2022 Dr. Kathryn Smith's exhibition "Speaking Likeness: perspectives on forensic facial imaging" will be open to all delegates.
Find out more at speakinglikeness.online
@serialworks
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29 Jul 2022
Our first keynote speaker of the day, Dr Kathryn Smith @serialworks from the University of Stellenbosch 🇿🇦 is giving a talk on forensic art and promoting visual and pracademic post-mortem facial identification.
#IACI2020
#forensicart
#humanidentification
#craniofacialID
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11 May 2022
Research workshop! Forensic Knowledge and Mediation: Visual Methodologies. Forensic anthropology, forensic art, media and journalism studies, and medical humanities. @UniversityofExeter @UofE_ArtHistory #forensic @serialworks Sign up at eventbrite.co.uk/e/forensic-…
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7 Apr 2022
LJMU student looking for summer work?
Face Lab is Hiring! Staring on the 30th May, 2022, 15hr a week for 2 months. We are looking for a research assistant to work on project: The affordances of 3D imaging modalities for forensic facial identification. portal.unitemps.com/Search/J…
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17 Mar 2022
If you missed our @StanfordGlobal talk last week on Cape Slavery, Digital Humanities & Forensic Facial Imaging, it's available on the YouTubes! Watch, like, share, ta! youtube.com/watch?v=Ivi_zdPe…
#forensicart #facialdepiction #digitalhumanities #capeslavery #restitution #remediation
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17 Mar 2022
Great conversation with Dr Kathryn Smith around my book Visual Culture & the Forensic last night! routledge.com/Visual-Culture…. Thanks @The_RPS and the brilliant @serialworks - Kathryn's wonderful, insightful project on #forensic imaging Speaking Likeness speakinglikeness.online/.
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16 Mar 2022
Tonight! (where I am at least) I have the pleasure of being in conversation with @davidhoustonjon about his insightful & necessary new book, hosted by the @The_RPS Register & join us at 17.00 GMT/19.00 SAST. Link in retweet #visualculture #forensic
3 Mar 2022
Weird to be celebratory at the moment, but ONE WEEK till this is out! My new book Visual Culture & the Forensic, Routledge, 11th March routledge.com/Visual-Culture…. Launch hosted by Royal Photographic Society 16March 1700GMT rps.org/Visculture Thanks @The_RPS @UofE_ArtHistory
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8 Mar 2022
On Thurs at 20h00 SAST @StanfordGlobal hosts a workshop in the ‘Reframing Enslaved Pasts’ series, on the Biography of an Uncharted People project, focusing on #capeslavery Join us!
Link to register stanford.zoom.us/meeting/reg…
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15 Sep 2021
More #postgraduate #scholarships available to join us in #VisualArts #ArtsSocialSciences @StellenboschUni Any discipline, but focused on either African Cultural Studies; Gender/Identity/Queer Studies; or The Anthropocene/Ecocriticism via @MellonFdn See: tinyurl.com/ymyffnxy
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8 Sep 2021
Interested in reimagining/reinventing #archives? Two MA #scholarships in partnership with @StellenboschUni Studies in Historical Trauma and Transformation, Visual Arts & @UniofExeter on offer, deadline is Thursday 30 September 2021. Please share widely! tinyurl.com/cmmnxpnu
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30 Jul 2021
As a forensic specialist I am often told that the dead are too sensitive a subject to talk about. How can we ensure their dignity and support families and practitioners if we say nothing. This is the time for action not silence! #COVID #dignityforthedead #community #practitioners
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28 Jul 2021
Twitterstorians of all stripes, seeking any leads on visual archives relating to slavery in the Cape as well as social history of dress/fashion of the early 19thC (c.1830s but earlier also useful) @Michaelaclarkba? @CirajRassool? @SCKenny2? #slavery #cape #history #visualresearch
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16 Jun 2021
PhD Studentship 2021-2024 – Identifying Migrant Disaster Victims using craniofacial analysis. The deadline is 25 June! Apply now and join us! See the images below for more details.
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14 Apr 2021
When you introduce students to @zotero and the response is ‘I’ve never wanted to reference so hard in my life’, I call that a #teachingresult #research #AcademicTwitter #shareyourwork #accessknowledge
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