Virtual Reality in Real Time: A Conversation

Shari Frilot is Senior Programmer and Chief Curator of New Frontier at the Sundance Film Festival. As Co-Director of Programming for OUTFEST (1998–2001), she founded the Platinum section, which introduced cinematic installation and performance to the festival. As Festival Director of MIX: The New York Experimental Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (1993–96) she co-founded the first gay Latin American film festivals, MIX BRASIL and MIX MÉXICO. As a filmmaker she was the recipient of grants from the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Media Arts Foundation. She is a graduate of Harvard/Radcliffe and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

Homay King is Professor of History of Art and Film Studies at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of Virtual Memory: Time-Based Art and the Dream of Digitality (Duke University Press, 2015) and Lost in Translation: Orientalism, Cinema, and the Enigmatic Signifier (Duke University Press, 2010). Her essays on film, photography, and contemporary art have been published in Afterall, Discourse, Film Criticism, and October. She is a member of the Camera Obscura editorial collective.