Anna Friz
B.A. Women's Studies (UBC), M.A. Media Studies (Concordia)
Anna Friz is a sound/radio artist, and currently a doctoral candidate in the Joint Programme in Communication and Culture at York University. She is a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow, and holds a Susan Mann Dissertation Scholarship from York University (2009-2010). Anna's research interests include critical radio art and practice, the future as imagined by the past, and experimental sound and noise. Her doctoral dissertation focuses on critical theories of technology and affect as related to radio, particularly through the practise of radio art. She also works extensively with field(s) recordings of urban spaces, both acoustic and Hertzian. Anna has contributed chapters to anthologies such as Islands of Resistance: Pirate Radio in Canada (2009), Re-inventing Radio (2008), Site of Sound: Architecture/Music/Acoustics (2007), Relating Radio: Communities, Aesthetics, Access (2006), Acoustic Space Reader (2003, 2008); and published articles on sound art and critical media studies in PAJ: A Journal of Performance Art, Cinema Journal, Wi: Journal of Mobile Media, Public, Musicworks, .dpi, G.E.M.S. (Gender, Education, Music and Society), and various exhibition catalogues.
Since 1998 Friz has predominantly created self-reflexive radio works for international broadcast, installation or performance, where radio is the source, subject, and medium of the work. She creates performances and installations utilizing up multiple FM transmitters and a multitude of radio receivers, and as well as designing sound for theatre, dance, and mobile tours. Anna has performed and exhibited widely across Canada, and at international venues and festivals such as Third Coast Audio Festival (Chicago, IL), PS 122 (New York, NY), AS220 (Providence, RI), the Fifth International Biennial of Radio (Mexico City), Arte Nuevo Interactiva (Yucatan), Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music (Belfast, IE), Club Transmediale/ Bootlab (Berlin, DE), Die Akademie der Künste (Berlin, DE), Art+Communication (Riga, LV), Von Krahl (Tallinn, EE), Ars Electronica (Linz, AT), Digitales (Brussels, BE), Radiophonic 07 (Brussels, BE), Observatori (Valencia, ES), RadiaLX (Lisbon, PT). Her work has been funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Québec Delegation in Mexico, and the SOCAN Foundation. Her radio art/works have been commissioned by national public radio in Canada, Austria, Germany, Denmark, Spain, and Mexico, and heard on independent airwaves in more than 15 countries. Friz has lectured and performed at numerous universities and art institutes in Canada, as well as CCRMA at Stanford University, the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn, Estonia, and UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico. Anna is a free103point9.org transmission artist.