Jessica Reisch
Jessica Reisch: Lake Erie Listening Project
Jessica Reisch, a new media artist, designer, and educator with an MFA in Computer Arts from the School of Visual Arts and a BA in Education Studies from Brown University, will bring her unique perspective to the residency. Emphasizing rhizomatic networked connections, her soundscapes and immersive installations draw on highly sensitive microphones in conjunction with transducer speakers and projections to engage with the surrounding environment with a depth usually overlooked by humans. This piece will combine audio recordings that reveal the unheard ecosystems of Lake Erie with footage and imagery that grounds these sounds in place and time.
Her work has been showcased internationally at venues such as Locust Projects (Miami, FL), The Engine Room International Sound Art Competition (London, UK), SIGGRAPH 2024 (Denver, CO), and the International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA) 2024 in (Meanjin (Brisbane), Australia. Reisch currently teaches digital design and emerging technology courses at Pratt Institute, New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), and Hostos Community College (CUNY).
Jessica will be joined by Austin Willis, who maintains a multidisciplinary practice exploring motifs around architecture, the built environment, and our relationship to everyday objects and furniture. Austin received his MFA in Fine Art at the School of Visual Arts and his Bachelors in Visual Art from the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Over the past few years, he has participated in shows at Latchkey Gallery (NY), John St Gallery (NY), SVA Curatorial Project Space (NY), Sweetpea Gallery (Victoria, Canada), Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art (Kelowna, Canada), 1190 Queen St (Toronto, Canada), and 4x4 on 5th (Vancouver, Canada).
