Anna Friz is a sound and radio artist who divides her time between Montreal and Toronto. For the past eight years she has predominantly created self-reflexive radio for broadcast, installation or performance, where radio is the source, subject, and medium of the work. She creates dynamic, atmospheric works equally able to reflect upon public media culture or to reveal interior landscapes.

Friz has presented installation and performance works across Canada and in international media art contexts such as the Third Coast Audio Festival, Chicago; Digitales, Brussels; Club Transmediale, Berlin; Ars Electronica, Linz; die Akademie der Künste, Berlin; the Fifth International Biennial of Radio, Mexico City; and Arte Nuevo Interactiva, Yucatan. She has produced numerous original radio works for independent radio across Canada and the U.S., and for public radio in Canada, Austria, Germany, Denmark, and Mexico.

Anna is a doctoral candidate in the Communications and Culture programme at York University, Toronto.

Anna Friz

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  • "When Radios Sleep" for RWM MACBA Opening, June 18, 2008. 061808 online radio performance from Tianna Kennedy, Anna Friz, and Twisty Cat, from Brooklyn. with special guests Ed Bear and Lea Bertucci. (audio/mpeg, 11.7 MB)
  • Anna Friz - Third Coast Festival FeatureCast, Jan. 17, 2008. Sounds, stories, and radio art by Anna Friz. Plus an interview from this Chicago Public Radio podcast. (audio/mpeg, 19.8 MB)
  • Andrew Drury, Anna Friz, Eric Leonardson, Jack Wright at the Tank, May 31, 2007. The night of performances concluded with all four artists improvising together. (audio/mpeg, 23.0 MB)
  • Anna Friz + Eric Leonardson, May 31, 2007. at the Tank in New York City (audio/mpeg, 48.1 MB)
  • The Demonstration: For Radia Network: Anna Friz, Sept. 28, 2006. Originally designed for pirate radio broadcast as part of a youth theatre/media and democracy project in Toronto, Canada, spring 2006. I created a series of pieces to serve as mediascapes surrounding actors in a physical theatre, reflecting on themes suggested by participating high school students (ages 16-18) such as power, commercialized culture and media saturation, justice, and freedom. The pieces were heard from radios suspended in the theatre, broadcast on 4 watts FM. (audio/mpeg, 38.4 MB)
  • PS 122 Fourth Radio Cabaret, Nov. 25, 2003. Tianna Kennedy and Great Small Works put on this show at P.S. 122 with B Owen + Radio Ruido + Tom Roe + DJ Matt Mikas: "Radio 4 x 4" Each performing into a transmitter, mixed together with radios in the space, and LoVid, Gregory Whitehead "Geronimo's Curse," Anna Friz, Lucy Raven, and Coco Rosie. (audio/mpeg, 738 bytes)

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