# Anna Friz > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Anna_Friz > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Anna_Friz.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Friz > Source revision: 1291777458 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|Canadian artist and musician (born 1970)}} {{Infobox artist | name = Anna Friz | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = | image_size = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1970}} | birth_place = [Vancouver, British Columbia](/source/Vancouver), Canada | nationality = | field = [sound art](/source/sound_art), [radio art](/source/radio_art) | alma_mater = [University of British Columbia](/source/University_of_British_Columbia), [Concordia University](/source/Concordia_University) | works = ''Respire''; ''You Are Far From Us'' (2006) | website = {{URL|http://nicelittlestatic.com/}} | bgcolour = | module = }} '''Anna Friz''' (born 1970) is a Canadian artist and musician whose work often pertains to, and utilizes the medium of, sound and radio. Starting in 1993, Friz has been involved with campus-community radio stations across Canada, and also works as a [sound designer](/source/sound_designer) for film and stage performance.{{cite web|title=Kunstradio {{!}} Biographies|url=http://www.kunstradio.at/BIOS/frizbio.html|access-date=10 December 2014}} She has contributed original programming to numerous Canadian campus-community stations such as [CITR-FM](/source/CITR-FM), [CKUT-FM](/source/CKUT-FM) and [CKUW](/source/CKUW), as well as for the [CBC](/source/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation) and [Kunstradio](/source/Kunstradio), Austria. ==Early life and education== Anna Friz was born in 1970 in [Vancouver, British Columbia](/source/Vancouver), Canada. She received her B.A. in [Women's Studies](/source/Women's_Studies) at the [University of British Columbia](/source/University_of_British_Columbia) and her M.A. in Media Studies at [Concordia University](/source/Concordia_University).{{cite web|title=York University {{!}} VISIBLE CITY project + archive|url=http://visiblecity.info.yorku.ca/project-team/|access-date=10 December 2014}} In 2011 Friz earned her Ph.D. in the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture from [York University](/source/York_University), her dissertation being, "The Radio of the Future Redux: Rethinking Transmission Through Experiments in Radio Art." From 2011-2013 Friz partook in a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Sound at the [School of the Art Institute of Chicago](/source/School_of_the_Art_Institute_of_Chicago). She is a founding member of the York University research collective L.O.T.: Experiments in Urban Research.{{cite web|title=anna friz {{!}} about|url=http://nicelittlestatic.com/about/|access-date=10 December 2014}} ==Work== Much of Friz's work is what she describes as "radiophonic performance art," stemming from a 1998 workshop by Vancouver media artist Bobbi Kozinuk about the construction of Tetsuo Kogawa inspired mini radio transmitters.{{cite web|title=Vimeo {{!}} Audition Records – ANNA FRIZ ::: Interview :::|date=19 April 2013 |url=http://vimeo.com/64368569|access-date=8 December 2014}} Her installations often include large arrays of lo-fi radios and multichannel [transmitters](/source/transmitters) in an attempt to create a field of sound, which is disrupted by the movement of the viewer due to the simple technical construction of the radios. Though most of her installations are very conscious of audience interaction, a more composed work featured at the 2009 [Nuit Blanche](/source/Nuit_Blanche) in [Toronto](/source/Toronto) was her piece ''Respire'', a continuation of an earlier work entitled ''You Are Far From Us'' (2006), that utilized sixty-five radios and four transmitters for a sound performance in five movements, which included interviews with witnesses of [gun violence](/source/gun_violence).{{cite journal|last=Kennedy|first=Chris|date=2010|title=Anna Friz: Sending and receiving|journal=Musicworks Magazine}} Friz contributed in the sound design for the theatrical, spoken word, and musical performance Spin by [Evalyn Parry](/source/Evalyn_Parry), which premiered at [Buddies in Bad Times Theatre](/source/Buddies_in_Bad_Times_Theatre) in Toronto in 2009. . ===Radio=== Friz became actively involved in campus-community radio beginning in 1993 as part of a collectively hosted [feminist](/source/feminist) radio show, ''Radio Free Women'', which aired on CITR-FM until 1995.{{cite journal|last=Ouzounian|first=Gascia|date=15 July 2008|title=Contemporary radio art and spatial politics: The critical radio utopias of Anna Friz|url=https://www.academia.edu/7166610|journal=The Radio Journal|publisher=Intellect Ltd|volume=5|issue=2&3|pages=129–142|access-date=11 December 2014}} She went on to become the [Program Director](/source/Program_Director) at CITR from 1997 until 2000. In the last two years as director, Friz curated the station's 24 Hours of Radio Art, an annual broadcast made in celebration of [Art's birthday](/source/Art's_birthday).{{cite web|title=Transmission Arts {{!}} Anna Friz|url=http://transmissionarts.org/artist/s2svmz|access-date=10 December 2014}} In 2000 Friz relocated to [Montreal](/source/Montreal) and became a host on the satirical CKUT-FM show ''The Harvey Christ Radio Hour''. The show turned into a performance called "Travelling Roadshow" for the 2005 [Winnipeg Fringe Festival](/source/Winnipeg_Fringe_Festival), and in the same year Cumulus Press published a book of comics and sermons written by the hosts.{{cite web|title=Cumulus Records|url=http://cumuluspress.burningbillboard.org/harveychrist.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217035115/http://cumuluspress.burningbillboard.org/harveychrist.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 17, 2012|access-date=11 December 2014}} == Installations and art works == Selected list of art and radio installations and works{{Cite web|title = Anna Friz is a sound and radio artist // anna friz » SOUND & RADIO ART/WORKS|url = http://nicelittlestatic.com/sound-radio-artworks/|website = nicelittlestatic.com|access-date = 2015-12-13}} * under lines (2015) * Two Sleeps (2015) * Telefunken Twins (2014-2015){{Cite web|title = Anna Friz is a sound and radio artist // Telefunken Twins {{!}} anna friz|url = http://nicelittlestatic.com/2014/05/22/telefunken-twins/|access-date = 2015-12-13}} * Breakwater (2014) * Trilogy for Night and Radio: Radiotelegraph, Night Fall, Relay (2013-2014) * Drone Wedding (2014), commissioned by [Ryerson University](/source/Ryerson_University) * ''White Night'' (2014) * What Isn't There (2014) * ''Radiotelegraph'' (2013), commissioned by Radius{{Cite web|title = Episode 44: Anna Friz|url = http://theradius.us/episode44|website = theradius.us|access-date = 2015-12-13}} * ''Collecting Clocks and Losing Time'' (2012) * ''Five Times (less a hundred)'' (2012) * ''Zero Hour/Uncoordinated Universal Time'' (2012/2014) * ''Tuner'' (2011) * ''For the time being'' (2010), commissioned by the [https://web.archive.org/web/20160111065215/http://charmofsound.org/ Äänen Lumo Festival for New Sounds] * ''Domestic Wireless, Dust'' (2009) * ''Short Horizon'' (2008/2013) * ''Extremity Cassette'' (2009) * ''Respire'' (2008-2009) * ''Dancing Walls Stir the Prairie'' (2007) * ''The Joy Channel'' (2007/2009), commissioned for Radiovisionen: 250 Jahre Radio * ''Somewhere a voice is calling'' (2007/2014) * ''You Are Far From Us'' (2006-2008), commissioned for Radio Revolten{{Cite web|title = RadioRevolten - Festival 2006|url = http://www.radiorevolten.radiocorax.de/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=13&Itemid=102|website = www.radiorevolten.radiocorax.de|access-date = 2015-12-13|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070504010456/http://www.radiorevolten.radiocorax.de/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=13&Itemid=102|archive-date = 2007-05-04|url-status = dead}} * The Secret Life of Radio (2005) * ''Who are the people in the radio?'' (2005) * ''Vacant City Radio'' (2005) * ''The Automated Prayer Machin''e (2004) * The Clandestine Transmissions of Pirate Jenny (2000/2002) * There's a Risk of Arrest if You Turn Right (2001) * Silence Descends (1999) * B.E.A.R. (1998) ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== *[http://nicelittlestatic.com/ Anna Friz] *[http://wavefarm.org/ Wave Farm] *[http://e-artexte.ca/15504/ Central Dispatch] *[http://film.ucsc.edu/faculty/anna_friz/ UC Santa Cruz] {{DEFAULTSORT:Friz, Anna}} Category:Living people Category:1970 births Category:Canadian radio personalities Category:University of British Columbia alumni Category:Concordia University alumni Category:York University alumni Category:Artists from Vancouver Category:Canadian sound artists Category:Women sound artists Category:Canadian women radio personalities Category:Canadian women artists --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Anna Friz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Friz) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Friz?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.