As part of CEPA Gallery's summer-long celebration of the late legendary UB filmmaker Hollis Frampton, CEPA and Squeaky Wheel Media Arts Center are sponsoring a panel discussion and pop-up exhibition exploring Frampton’s pioneering computer work at UB.

Titled “Enter the Age of Electronic Consciousness: Hollis Frampton and the Digital Arts Lab,” the event features former members of UB’s groundbreaking Digital Arts Lab (DA:) and Center for Media Studies (CMS), as well as media art, equipment and ephemera from the lab. It will take place from 7-10 p.m. Aug. 14 at Big Orbit Project Space, 30D Essex St., Buffalo. The panel discussion begins promptly at 8 p.m. Co-sponsor is Dean Brownrout Modern/Contemporary.

Frampton taught filmmaking, film theory, sound, video and digital arts as an associate professor in the Department of Media Study from 1973 until his death in 1984. Renowned as a genius and pioneer of American avant-garde filmmaking, Frampton made 58 films from 1962-80, including “Nostalgia,” “Hapax Legomena,” “Zorns Lemma” and “Magellan: At the Gates of Death.” His work has been the subject of endless critical acclaim, both nationally and internationally.

Panelists Bob Franki, Barbara Lattanzi, John Pittas and Keith Sanborn will be joined by others who worked directly with Frampton during the late 1970s and early 1980s at UB, which had one of the first programs in the world dedicated to new media and digital arts. These early explorers of digital media will discuss their experiences and relay stories of their times at CMS and DAL.

The pop-up exhibition, which will be on view through Sept. 13, culls a variety of early computer equipment and digital ephemera, including Frampton’s computer workstation. The display features never-before-exhibited media works made on the very hardware and software being developed at that time by Frampton and his cadre of young artists, programmers and engineers.