Seeking New Frontiers
February 1st, 2010 by IngridOne of my favorite places to seek refuge in Park City to catch up on emails, or even just to catch my breath, is the New Frontier on Main. This digital dungeon is a great place to hang out but it’s also a place to discover new work at the convergence of film and art. I attended a day-long Digital Dive workshop at New Frontier this year. More on this in the Tools Blog soon.

New Frontier artists with Shari Frilot who is behind much of the development of New Frontier. That’s the fantastic Pipilotti Rist in the front in the orange jumpsuit and red hat. She was at New Frontier with the equally fantastically named: Lobe Lung (The Saliva Ooze Away to the Underground)
These are just a few of the projects:

Joseph Gordon-Levitt explains his hitRECord.org project. Joseph spoke to some interviewers in fairly fluent French which impressed me slightly more than his project (but I’d love to be proved wrong so if anyone has participated in it please leave comments)

Tracey Snelling’s Bordertown – exploring the Mexican/American border in miniature

Eric Gradman’s Cloud Mirror which displays information from your Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts – the registration system wasn’t working the couple of times I tried to use this but I was secretly relieved. I’m not sure I want to see my online identity pop up on a mirror!

A visitor explores Jens Franke and Thomas Gläser’s Earthwalk

Ragnar Kjartansson’s , The End, a hauntingly beautiful, multiple screen concert from the Canadian rocky Mountains

Matthew Moore’s Lifecycles, using installations to reconnect consumers to the actual histories of the produce they buy










































































