Bhavna Pather, a Master’s student in Digital Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), was recently awarded a research scholarship by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium.
Pather, 25, from Queensburgh, Durban, graduated with her Digital Art Undergraduate and Honours degree summa cum laude and is now registered for a Master’s degree.
Her mother, Dr Roshini Pather, is a portfolio manager at UKZN library services and her late father, Rajan Pather, was a detective at the Point detective unit, Durban.
She said her research project had earned her the scholarship.
“My project was about digitally interactive installations that are responsive to the audience members present in the installation, ultimately changing their roles from simply viewers to creators. I was interested in how humans interacted with technology and…