Digital Arts and New Media: MFA: Collaboration, Innovation, Social Impact

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james pollack

Graduate Student in the Playable Fictions Research Group
Graduate Student in the Expressive Intelligence Studio
Teaching Assistant (Fall 2010) for Introduction to U.S. Popular Music and Culture / Advanced Electronic Music
Teaching Assistant (Winter 2011) for Muppet Magic: Jim Henson's Art
Teaching Assistant (Spring 2011) for Introduction to Theater Design and Technology
Alum
Digital Art and New Media
MFA Class of 2012

I'm a first-year student in the Digital Arts and New Media program here at UC Santa Cruz.  Although my work is primarily in the area of Digital Literature, my interests range from poetics and dramatic theory to neuroscience and public health.  Currently, I'm obsessed with the idea of the imagination outliving the imagination.

r e c e n t / w o r k [september 2010] digital postcards  -- reconstructed from 1909-1911

 

files are a couple mb in size, so click the words and wait a little bit. once loaded, click and drag up/down to move in/out of the piece.

 

-- yale crew

-- vanderbilt

-- inside sterling

Research Interests: 

Art Theory
// Collaborative Theatre
// Community Engagement & Participation
// Computer Games Technology
// Contemporary American Literature
// Digital Arts
// Digital Culture
// Digital Games
// Digital Humanities
// Digital Interfaces for Composing Artworks (by genre and for new genres)
// Digital Literature
// Digital Media
// Digital Media & Learning
// Digital Poetics
// Digital Storytelling
// Digitalizations of Non-Digital Art Works, Shows, Galleries, Events, Archives, Publishings
// Dramaturgy
// Dramaturgy In Participatory Theatre
// Experimental Theatre
// HIV/AIDS
// Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
// Interactive Digital Storytelling
// Interactive Theatre
// Interactive and Digital Media
// Irish Theatre and Drama
// Mechatronics
// Multimedia
// Neuroimaging
// Performance Studies
// Poetic Drama
// Synaesthesia
// Usability and user experience

Education and Training: 
B.A. in English - Yale University, New Haven, CT
Writing Concentration in Fiction - Yale University, New Haven, CT
Selected Exhibitions: 

2010

--"m u s h" was blogged about by a staff writer from The New Yorker.

-- scenes from "Of Paradise" appeared in a gallery in downtown Providence, RI @ Archive/Innovate.

2009

-- "SPHIROS" was shown in the New Media Gallery at the Museum of Computer Art.

Honors and Awards: 

2009

-- First Grand Prize @ the Yale Innovation in Digital Environments Awards (IDEA) for "Digital Diving" w/ Noa Kaplan-Sears

-- Francis Bergen Memorial Prize in Poetry for "bail"