Department of Art & Art History to host [RE]Gen New Media Festival

The festival on April 28, 2015, will feature the creative work of students in ART 362/462: Video Art and Animation, alongside submissions selected from a national and international call for artwork.

Image courtesy of the Paramount Theater.
[RE]Gen New MediaFestival, a new event in the Department of Art & Art History, will showcase the creative work of Elon students on April 28 at the historic Paramount Theater in downtown Burlington.

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 Elon’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 Elon University’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.