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Runette Kruger
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Runette Kruger @runettekruger.bsky.social · Jul 31
This volume captures outputs from the EVC AI conference held in Nairobi at the end of last year. The journal is open source - my analysis may of interest to humanities and arts educators.
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Vol. 5 (2) 2025. The Use of AI In Arts Education: A Didactic Tool for Sensitising Students and for the Detection of Technology Assisted Writing in the Humanities. https://doi.org/10.62049/jkncu.v5i2.297 Abstract The disruption caused by the launch of generative AI such as ChatGPT in 2022 has impacted strategies for effective knowledge transfer and assessment across the higher education sector. This essay presents a model or rubric that can be used by educators in the humanities to detect the probable use of AI and to sensitise students to the unoriginality and generic nature of the generated output. The rubric was compiled by coding the artist's statements of ninety-three art students and graduates from five countries and two continents, participating in the same exhibition. Coding of the data revealed the presence of five defining characteristics that point to the probable use of AI. These are the prevalence and repetition of identified terms as well as phrases; the excessive use of flattering adjectives; hyperbolic statements; and, lastly, tortured phrases. Findings include the widespread reliance on technology in samples from all institutions in the study, across five countries on different continents. Recommendations include a focus on the development of adequate writing skills at school as well as university level combined with centring the importance of ethical conduct in research (and more broadly) as a guiding principle that goes beyond compliance. The source of the data is in the public domain. However, no students or institutions are identified in the presentation, analysis or discussion of the data. Keywords: Al In Higher Education, Arts Education, AI Detection Rubric
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The Archivo Advanced Research Seminar 2026 invites post/doctoral researchers to submit a proposal based on their ongoing research in both Western and majority-world contexts, to foster a diverse, inclusive, and critically engaged environment for dialogue and exchange.
www.archivoplatform.com/seminar
Advanced Research Seminar
2026 | PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE ECOLOGICAL TURN
www.archivoplatform.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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He writes that "the idealistic heroes and leaders who tried to stem this plundering tide and redistribute the wealth among the citizenry were the targets". And he asserts that "it is clear that the US and British intelligence agencies cooperated" in such killings. Nicholson calls for renewed investigations into Hani's murder. He argues that systemic corruption and collusion between corporations and intelligence agencies have contributed to South Africa's persistent inequality.
December 23, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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of course none of this controversy is about defending or explaining journalism or human rights investigations—it’s about a group of powerful people who want to reserve the right to deny reality, however poorly, whenever they want to or are told to
December 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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www.goodthingsguy.com/lifestyle/ge...
South Africa Ranked the Most Generous Nation on Earth
Across 25 countries and more than 4,500 participants, one message stood out clearly: South Africans lead the world when it comes
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December 22, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Community library.
Excellent.
Two books from the community library - The bang bang club, Marinovich and Silva; Die konsentrasiekampe, Otto.
December 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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This might explain those 4 years of eating yoghurt and pronutro in my 30s. 🤖
Your score: 132 of 200 97% probability of being atypical (autistic/neurodiverse)
December 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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"Inequality is a political choice. It is the result of our policies, institutions and governance structures. The costs of escalating inequality are clear: widening divides, fragile democracies and a climate crisis borne most heavily by those least responsible," the report reads. "But the possibilities of reform are equally clear. Where redistribution is strong, taxation is fair and social investment is prioritised, inequality narrows. The tools exist. The challenge is political will.
December 13, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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www.businessday.co.za/news/2025-12...
SA’s top 10% hold 86% of wealth, report finds
Data from the latest World Inequality Report shows inequality is a political choice
www.businessday.co.za
December 13, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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NPA freezes over R12 million in zama zama syndicate assets | The Citizen
AFU and DPCI seized properties and vehicles belonging to key illegal mining syndicate members. Over R12 million in assets were frozen.
www.citizen.co.za
December 13, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Kaori Kurihara.
Ceramics. 🩵
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Ceramic fantastical fruit and floral shapes in beautiful turquoise, pale yellow, midnight blue, deep crimson, cadmium orange, mint green and a touch of gold. 🪄
December 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Today Dr Ana Catarina Pinho (IHA, NOVA University Lisbon / University of Coimbra, Portugal): “The Empire of Fiction: Images and Counter-Images of the Portuguese Dictatorship”

Attendance is free but registration is required: photographichistory.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/r...
December 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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The latest issue of the South African Journal of Art History is now online. In my essay Decolonial worlding: sites of movement, marronage and fabulation, I tried to do justice to Spivak's theory and the work of two practitioners I much admire.

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South African Journal of Art History
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December 10, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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I wish people could show some respect and have some dignity while they're chowing. It's a farce and an insult to recieve condolences from a man who has had the power - but not the will - to address corruption for 8 years.
Eight Years.
www.news24.com/southafrica/...
"Amid this trauma, we must remain resolute in our commitment to end corruption and ensure that those who have acted unlawfully – and those plotting further wrongs – are held accountable," Ramaphosa said.
December 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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"In the subjunctive, no one takes anyone's life" - Cristina Rivera Garza in Christina Sharpe's Introduction to The City of Our Dreaming.
Speechless.
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My book arrived and changed my plans for the day week month!!
Everything about the Alchemy Lecture series is just so beautiful but this lecture by V. Mitch McEwen blew me away and continues to do so. 🔥
Everyone needs this book / these books.
Cover of the book The City of Our Dreaming with lectures by Laleh Khalili, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and introduction by Christina Sharpe. Introduction by Christina Sharpe. V. Mitch McEwen - buoyant futures, after fixity, dreaming in bounce. Introductory paragraph V. Mitch McEwen - buoyant futures, after fixity, dreaming in bounce.
December 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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My book arrived and changed my plans for the day week month!!
Everything about the Alchemy Lecture series is just so beautiful but this lecture by V. Mitch McEwen blew me away and continues to do so. 🔥
Everyone needs this book / these books.
Cover of the book The City of Our Dreaming with lectures by Laleh Khalili, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and introduction by Christina Sharpe. Introduction by Christina Sharpe. V. Mitch McEwen - buoyant futures, after fixity, dreaming in bounce. Introductory paragraph V. Mitch McEwen - buoyant futures, after fixity, dreaming in bounce.
December 6, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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The Interview: Ibrahim Mahama
“I’m thinking about an institution as some kind of archaeological truth”
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December 6, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Art Review Power 100 1 - Ibrahim Mahama.
December 6, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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I am so very pleased to share the news that I'm officially part of the incredible editorial board of the Archivo Papers journal - a dream come true. Archivo Papers is part of the fantastic Archivo Network. Have a look at what they do 🗣

www.archivoplatform.com/network
ARCHIVO NETWORK | members
ARCHIVO | Photography and Visual Culture Research Platform
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December 4, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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This sounds fantastic 🌾
December 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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The nation is apparently going to be addressed at 7.
He is going to announce an enquiry into establishing a committee to look into the possibility of creating a department about the potential returns of funding an investigation to study the immediate problem at hand which must still be defined and until then should be referred to as "Situation X" which should not be confused with "Problem X" which is an entirely different thing altogether.
November 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Brilliant!
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Creative wave from South Africa sweeps through Paris | Daily Maverick
<p>From fashion and concerts to art exhibitions, SA artists have made 2025 a memorable year.</p>
www.dailymaverick.co.za
November 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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www.citizen.co.za/rekord/news-...
Over 700 Ga-Rankuwa households relocated as metro upgrades informal areas
Hundreds of families are being moved to pegged and serviced stands in Ga-Rankuwa as the metro rolls out a phased relocation to improve safety and living conditions.
www.citizen.co.za
November 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Artist Igshaan Adams Opens the Door of His Cape Town Studio as He Preps for a Major Commission at the ICA Miami - Galerie Magazine
Using humble materials, South African artist Igshaan Adams crafts ethereal, enthralling tapestries subtly infused with cultural allusions
galeriemagazine.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Biko's words both true and beautiful.
November 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Hundreds still missing in deadly Hong Kong fire, police cite ‘grossly negligent’ firm.

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#Hongkong 🔥🔥
Hundreds still missing in deadly Hong Kong fire, police cite ‘grossly negligent’ firm
Hong Kong firefighters brought under control on Thursday a huge blaze in an apartment complex that killed at least 55 and left nearly 300 missing, while police said its cause could have been a "grossl...
www.reuters.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM