Anna Friz is a Canadian sound and media artist who specializes in multichannel radio transmission systems for installation, performance, and broadcast, or works in which radio is often the source, subject, and medium of the work. She also composes sound works and installations for theater, dance, film, and solo performance that reflect upon public media culture, entanglements of land and infrastructure, time perception, signal space, and speculative fictions. Recent presentations of her work include Ars Electronica Big Concert Night (Linz, Austria), the Museum of Arts and Design (New York), the Soundwave Biennial: Infrastructure (San Francisco), XIV Festival Ecuatoriano de Música Contemporánea (Quito, Ecuador), and the recent New York Times Magazine edition “Listen to the World”. Her radio art/works have been commissioned by national public radio in Canada, Australia, Austria, Finland, Germany, Danmark, Spain, and Mexico, and heard on the airwaves of more than 25 countries. She received 2nd place in the Prix Palma Ars Acoustica 2014, and together with Emmanuel Madan was a finalist for the Phonurgia Nova Sound Art award in 2017. Anna is an itinerant member of the Toronto-based Public Studio collective, which together created a new permanent sound installation in the Lee Lifeson Arts Park in North York, Toronto in 2016. Anna Friz is Assistant Professor in the Film and Digital Media Department of the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a steering member of Skálar | Sound Art | Experimental Music, East Iceland, and a long-time artist/affiliate of Wave Farm in Acra, New York.
Anna's participation is supported in part by a grant from the Arts Research Institute at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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