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RADIA: THE DEMONSTRATION
Sept. 28, 2006: 2 p.m.
The Demonstration by Anna Friz
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.
This broadcast is part of the weekly Radia network broadcast on free103point9.
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.
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 Ph.D. candidate in the Joint Communications and Culture programme at York and Ryerson universities, Toronto.
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 Ph.D. candidate in the Joint Communications and Culture programme at York and Ryerson universities, Toronto.
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- 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)