UB to Host Exhibition By Young Media Artists On March 7

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- More than 150 area high-school, media-arts students and their teachers will present student work in video film, computer arts and photography on Friday, March 7, when the University at Buffalo hosts the 28th annual Western Regional Show for the New York State Youth Media Arts Program.

The program, which is open to the public and free of charge, will run from 9 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The exhibition is co-sponsored by the UB Department of Media Study and the Media Arts Teachers Association (MATA).

The show will feature two competitions. Several exhibitors will be selected as candidates for the New York State Summer School of the Media Arts, held every year at Cornell University. Presentations also will be adjudicated for selection for a special exhibition to be held in April during a conference on media arts and education at Teachers¹ College of Columbia University .

One of last year¹s summer-school students, John Glassy of Sweet Home High School, will present his work, as will film and video artist Tony Conrad, UB professor of media study.

Judges will be Michael Sladden of the George Eastman House; Robert Reals of the Summer School of the Media Arts; Stan Panetski of MATA; Cheryl Jackson, director of Squeaky Wheel media access center, also known as Buffalo Media Resources; Dan Calleri, photography technician, in the UB Department of Art, and Barbara Lattanzi, visiting professor in the UB media study department.

Program chairs are Mike Townsend of Lewiston-Porter School and president of MATA, Nancy Kitchen of Clarence Central Schools and Stefanos Papazaharias of the UB media study department.