[ experimental video, 2 min ] Inspired by Emma Lazarus’s famed poem welcoming immigrants to the United States, this experimental video short captures small moments of humanity within the quotidian carriage of the…
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…
Projection
[ Two-channel video installation ] Projection presents two video landscapes which occupy the same surface in a power struggle to define our relationship to the natural landscape. The large projection is a re-constructed nature…