From the early ground-breaking teleconferencing work, String Games: Improvisations for Inter-City Video (Montreal-Toronto, 1974), to her documenta IX multi-channel project on migration and displacement "...from the Transit Bar" (1992), and her current web-based touring installation, The Institute™: Or What We Do for Love, Frenkel's work challenges received ideas and the boundaries of her chosen media through a compelling mix of visual and conceptual power, narrative force, incisive humour and technical mastery.