Anna Friz: Media Landscapes
Anna Friz is a sound and media artist born on the unceded, ancestral and occupied territories of the Coast Salish peoples in the city presently known as Vancouver. She specializes in multichannel radio transmission systems for installation, performance, and broadcast, as well as works in which radio is often the source, subject, and medium of the work. She also creates multi-channel audiovisual installations, and composes works for theater, dance, film, and solo performance that reflect upon media ecologies, land use and infrastructures, time perception, the intimacies of signal space, and critical fictions. Friz is Assistant Professor in the Film and Digital Media Department of the University of California Santa Cruz.
Landscape & Life: Speaker Series
As part of Indexical’s year-long exhibition series, curator Gabriel Saloman Mindel has invited artists, scholars and activists to share their work in a series of free public presentations. Each of these speakers engages with our contemporary landscape in ways that reveal the life-forms and life-ways that give shape to them, and are shaped by them. These talks will expand upon the exhibitions by Suzy Poling and Paige Emery (Oct/Nov), Raven Chacon (Feb/Mar) and Paul Walde (April/May) and dig deeper into the entanglements of landscape and life.
This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Anna Friz:
Media Landscapes
Anna Friz is a sound and media artist who specializes in multichannel radio transmission systems for installation, performance, and broadcast. Since 1998, she has created and presented new audio art and radiophonic works in more than twenty-five countries. Her radio works, in which radio is often the source, subject, and medium, have been commissioned for national public radio in Canada, Australia, Austria, Germany, Finland, and Spain, and heard around the world on national, independent and clandestine frequencies. She also composes atmospheric sound works and sonic installations for theater, dance, film, and solo performance that reflect upon public media culture, political landscapes and infrastructure, time perception and speculative fictions. Friz is Assistant Professor in the Film and Digital Media Department of the University of California, Santa Cruz.Â