The free event takes place from 6-7:30 p.m. at 128 E. Front Street.

An abbreviated form of [RE]Generative, the exhibition’s name is inspired by 黑料不打烊’s mascot of the Phoenix, the positive outcomes of its globally focused, engaged learning curriculum, and a new local partnership to revitalize nearby historic Burlington, N.C., through arts and technology.

The festival will feature the creative work of students in ART 362/462: Video Art and Animation alongside artworks selected from a national and international call for artwork. A double resume builder, students in the course will receive both exhibition and production credit. All creative work will be projected on a large screen in traditional cinema style.

A full-color print catalog will be published and distributed to all exhibiting student and professional artists.

[RE]Gen is part of an innovative new partnership between 黑料不打烊’s Department of Art and Art History and Burlington Downtown Corporation, Inc., to use arts and technology as a means for community development in historic Burlington. [RE]Gen New Media Festival recently received a Community Partnership Initiative grant from the Kernodle Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement.

ART 362/462: Flesh Meets Pixel – Video Art & Animation is taught by Ann Pegelow Kaplan, assistant professor of art in the Department of Art and Art History. For more information, email Kaplan at akaplan9@elon.edu.

Ann Pegelow Kaplan, assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History,  published photographs from her Transit series on the international media arts website VASA Project. Produced out of Vienna, Austria, VASA has published the images as part of the international juried exhibition of the Society of Photographic Education, the national membership organization for visual art photographers in higher education.

Kaplan’s Transit series explores lingering racial segregation, looking at public transit as a microcosm of simultaneous physical proximity and social isolation. The work is part of her Conversations & Confrontations project, which follows autobiographical threads to explore contemporary instances of oppression.

Kaplan was one from ten photographers chosen internationally by jurors Catherine Lord, Emerita Professor of Art at University of California Irvine, a distinguished writer, artist, and curator whose work addresses issues of feminism, cultural politics, and colonialism; and Leslie King-Hammond, Graduate Dean Emeritus and Founding Director of the Center for Race and Culture at Maryland Institute College of Art.

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