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Each year, IndieWire partners with MIT’s Open Documentary Lab to offer a deeper look at Sundance’s New Frontiers section. Here, Samuel Mendez explores several projects that tackled climate change.

You can be a mushroom carrying out bioremediation. You can be a bug sliding down an esophagus. You can even be yourself, watching your breath leave your body. The New Frontier lineup at Sundance 2020 shows the power of virtual reality to create playful experiences of agency in the face of climate change.

A standout from this year’s festival is “Hypha,” a beautifully inventive Vr experience that let viewers act as mushrooms sent down from outer space to save the Earth. The viewer transforms from spore to mycelium, with branching, stringy limbs that decontaminate soil, absorb water, and hug tree roots. In the end, the viewer turns into a familiar mushroom fruitbody, with its cap and gills obstructing their...

The Sundance Institute has added 32 projects to its Frontier lineup for its 2020 Sundance Film Festival, including “Chomsky vs. Chomsky.”

The Frontier selection is a curation of cutting-edge independent and experimental media works by innovators and creators across mediums that include biotech, facial recognition, AI, Ar, Vr and big data.

The 2020 edition will return to two dedicated venue spaces at the festival, which are New Frontier at The Ray and New Frontier Central. They will host a variety of media installations. The festival takes place in Park City, Utah, and will run from Jan. 23 to Feb. 2. New Frontier alums include Doug Aitken, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Chris Milk, Nonny de la Peña, Pipilotti Rist and Jennifer Steinkamp.

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“Technology infuses most aspects of modern life — and is evolving at a historic pace,” President and Founder of Sundance Institute Robert Redford said.

The Sundance Film Festival announced its New Frontier Lineup for the 2020 edition, a curated collection of cutting-edge indie experimental media works by creators who are pushing artistic boundaries in various mediums including rocket travel, biotech, facial recognition, mixed reality (Mr), smartphone Ar, underwater Vr, game engines, big data, AI, the human archive, and innovative uses of SMS text & iPhone video capture.

There are two dedicated venue spaces: New Frontier at The Ray and New Frontier Central, each of which host a variety of media installations, a Vr Cinema, and panel discussions. New this year, New Frontier Central also houses the Biodigital Theatre, a cutting-edge presentation space that will feature a rotating schedule of large scale Vr theatrical works including a feature-length livestream game telecast.

Robert Redford, President and Founder of Sundance Institute, said in statement, “Technology infuses most aspects of modern life — and is evolving at a historic pace. The...

The Sundance Institute revealed the last batch of programming for the 2020 Sundance Film Festival — minus a few last-minute additions to its feature lineup, still to come — by announcing its New Frontier section, which this time around include not only augmented and virtual reality, but also SMS-based text messaging, biotech and artificial intelligence.

Like the innovative work it encompasses, Sundance’s New Frontier program has been evolving in recent years, as the festival aims to bring greater attention to the fields of Vr, artificial intelligence, and outside-the-box new media. During the 11-day event — which takes place from Jan. 23 through Feb. 2, 2020 in Park City, Utah — this work will have a dedicated home at two venues, the New Frontier at The Ray and New Frontier Central.

Some of the more unconventional pieces include “Anti-Gone” (pictured above), an installation that imagines the world post-climate change; “Spaced Out” from French artist Pierre Friquet a.k.

The 2020 Sundance Film Festival has revealed its full lineup for the festival’s forward-thinking New Frontier section, which “spotlights work at the dynamic crossroads of film, art, and technology.” The curated collection of “cutting-edge independent and experimental media works are by creators who are pushing artistic innovation across mediums that include rocket travel, biotech, facial recognition, mixed reality (Mr), smartphone Ar, underwater Vr, game engines, big data, AI, the human archive, and innovative uses of SMS text & iPhone video capture.

Shari Frilot, Chief Curator of New Frontier,​ said in an official statement, “Powerful technologies now enable experiences that capture, replicate, and replace ‘the real.’ But it is even more special when the human touch converges with technology, we are provoked to reach beyond what we know to be real and enter into unfamiliar terrain. This transcendence can shift who we believe ourselves to be, where our bodies begin and end,...

Roster of Vr, Ar, mixed reality (Mr) and AI returns to two dedicated spaces.

The climate crisis, wealth inequality, and the evolution of humanity inform Sundance Film Festival selections in the New Frontier section announced on Thursday (12).

Experimental media working across Vr, Ar, mixed reality (Mr) and AI examine these and other topics. Azibuye - The Occupation (South Africa), a selection in Vr Cinema by Dylan Valley, Caitlin Robinson and Stephen Abbott, follows a Johannesburg protest over land ownership; mixed-reality exhibit Solastalgia (France) by Antoine Viviani and Pierre-Alain Giraud imagines humans as holograms on the surface of an uninhabitable planet...