Anna Friz is a sound and radio artist, and media studies scholar. Since 1998, she has created and presented new audio art and radiophonic works internationally in which radio is often the source, subject, and medium of the work. She also composes atmospheric sound works and sonic installations for theater, dance, film, and solo performance that reflect upon public media culture, media ecologies, political landscapes and infrastructure, time perception, the intimacy of signal space, and speculative fictions. Current projects include We Build Ruins, a large-scale sound-focused media art installation expressively considering mining and industrial corridors in the high-altitude deserts in northern Chile, and ongoing projects concerning radio beacons, air traffic control, and military monitoring vs. citizen listening.

ARI Faculty Fellowship project: We Build Ruins is a series of solo and collaborative media artworks expressively documenting the mining and industrial areas of the high-altitude deserts in northern Chile. Based on intensive desert fieldwork, this project considers the temporality and scale of massive extractive industries and accompanying infrastructure produced by humans in an equally vast desert and mountainous environment that further exceeds the human, contemplating the historical and present impact of industrial development that is currently servicing the ever-growing demand for copper, lithium and rare earths. We Build Ruins takes an experimental approach in order to think relationally about land transformations, earth being, and environmental crisis.

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