This Mortal Plastik is a lyrical nonfiction film which dives into the world’s most impersonal substance: plastics. Amid the lockdown, a bereaved mother unfolds a surprising journey within and across oceans to…
Author: jessirish
The Phantasmagoria of Offense: the male version
[ Experimental documentary video, 6 min ] The Phantasmagoria of Offense is an animated film lyric on the dangers of image suppression and censorship. In this “male version” a collage history of images…
Visualizing Pipeline Impacts
[ Website for public advocacy: vzpi.org ] Visualizing Pipeline Impacts employs a variety of media and strategies – remote sensing, spatial analysis, drone imagery, infographics and visual arguments – to explain shale gas…
Urban Research Toolkit
[ Web/mobile platform for spatial research ] The Urban Research Toolkit (URT) prototyped an open-source, online mapping platform for cooperative research within a user-friendly interface across thematic layers of urban locations. Designed as…
dataMyne
[ Online platform for creative communities ] Myne is an open-source online platform to connect and visualize relationships between the people, courses, research, and projects within an academic community. Myne can help reveal…
Yestermorrow
[ Solo exhibition ] Juxtaposing the byproducts of yesterday to the promise of tomorrow, Yestermorrow conjures in-between spaces and states that are at once familiar yet estranged. In this new series, Irish explores the increasingly…
Four Walls
[ Video loop ] A silent tour of failed businesses, this moving image loop pulls the viewer away successively back and downward. Decayed interiors mix with shiny new storefronts, positing a sense of…
Between / Everyday
[ Solo exhibition ] “Between / Everyday,” this site specific installation of video projections that explore new ways to visualize and construct both the ideology and experience of the built environment. In the…
Traversing the City
[ installation ] Can a combination of photographs, maps, and census data begin to tell a story about a city? Can the photographic perceptions illuminate the cities history, demography and possible future? What…
Two Planes
[ video installation ] How does a city mourn, rebuild itself? Two Planes is a post-9/11 moving image meditation on the desire to undo loss. The corner installation play with the juncture between architectural…
Tropical America
[ Online narrative game ] Tropical America fuses the new world of video games to a compelling past through a journey to unravel the mysteries of the Americas. Developed in collaboration with Los…
Inflat-o-scape
[ Experimental website ] Inflat-o-scape is an experimental web project that explores architecture, technology, economy and other things that go BOOM. Awarded a Creative Capital Artist grant, 2000.
Inter: Reactive
[Interactive stories ] Five cross-cultural, interactive narratives explore a layered experience of urban space along themes of magical realism, film noir, gaming, memory and mystery. Part of a two-year project to explore how…
Turning from the Millennium
[ Interactive documentary ] An interactive exploration of South Central LA and Echo Park, two historic neighborhoods which have experienced radical demographic shifts, social upheaval, big city politics. A collaboration with OnRamp Arts,…
Electronic Corpse
[ A four-channel video sculpture ] Inspired by the Surrealist practice of the Exquisite Corpse, I collaborated with three then-UCSB students Josh Churchill, Jessica D’Elena and Robert Lee to generate four tracks of…
