2024 Barbra Streisand Lecture

For over 20 years Shari Frilot has been a curator and a programmer of emerging media, film, and art through the Sundance Institute and external programming platforms–and under her stewardship literally thousands of artists have been able to develop their projects, showcase their stories, and find investment, distribution, and audiences. As the Chief Curator of the New Frontier program and Senior Programmer at Sundance, Frilot helped catalyze interactive media, social media forms of story, and other emerging forms in artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, blended reality, alternate reality experiences, and various genre-bending and form-shifting video games.

Join Frilot for our annual Barbra Streisand Lecture, in the form of a brief presentation, followed by a wide-ranging conversation with Gender & Sexuality Studies Chair, Karen Tongson about world building, storytelling, the challenges and promises posed by new technologies, and the regenerative elsewheres we have the power to create.

3:00pm - 4:30pm: presentation & discussion

4:30pm - 5:30pm: reception