Anna Friz with a special radio performance in association with her residency at free103point9's Wave Farm in upstate New York.
Anna Friz is a sound and radio artist living in Montreal. For the past six years Friz has created self-reflexive radio works where radio is the source, subject, and medium of the work. She has presented installation and solo performance works incorporating low-watt FM transmission at the Western Front in Vancouver, Send + Receive Festival in Winnipeg (2000, 2004), Tone Deaf Festival in Kingston, Studio XX and the SociÈtÈ des arts technologiques in MontrÈal; as well as at free103point9 Gallery in Brooklyn, PS 122 in New York City, the Third Coast Audio Festival in Chicago, Ars Electronica 2002 in Linz, and at the Akademie der K¸nste, Berlin. She has produced numerous original radio works for Kunstradio, Austria, for campus/community radio stations across Canada and the U.S.; and for public radio in Canada, Austria, Denmark and Mexico. Together with Annabelle Chvostek, Friz toured The Automated Prayer Machine in winter 2004 across Europe and Canada. Current projects include the upcoming residency for the Deep Wireless festival of radio art in Toronto May 2005.