Anna Friz

Faculty Advisor, Sound, Media Ecology & Place-Based Practice

Anna Friz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz and an artist working across sound, radio, transmission art, installation, film, and performance. Her creative and scholarly practice explores media ecologies, land and land use, infrastructures, environmental art, and the histories and possibilities of radio and transmission. She leads the Burrow of Investigation, an art and research cluster dedicated to land- and place-based practices that approach environment as media.

For UC CAAN, Friz contributes expertise in sound, media ecology, environmental art, and place-based research, expanding the network’s engagement with listening, transmission, landscape, and the ways media technologies shape relationships to changing environments.