James Braden Pollack

a portfolio of interactive work for consideration

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All pieces written in Flash & staged in a modified version of Jason Nelson's Withinspace framework.

To play, open the .swf file inside of a modern browser on a computer equppied with the Adobe Flash Player.
Performance may improve if you download the .swf file(s) to your desktop before playing.

Navigate through the space by moving the mouse; on the Y-axis to move up and down and on the X-axis to move laterally.
Zoom in and out by holding down the left mouse button and moving on the Y-axis.

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Major Projects

Sphiros
Featured Exhibit June 2009 @ MOCA: Museum of Computer Art
Interactive fiction w/text, video, music (Sigur Ros), animation
Sphiros in the New Media Gallery, Museum of Computer Art

Installation History:
Version using custom head tracking software, infrared glasses, and Wii Remote for navigation presented May 2009 in Maya's Room [named after Maya Tanaka Hanway '83], the only undergraduate art gallery at Yale.

Created as an independent project for credit in Yale University's English Department under the supervision of Dr. Jessica Pressman.

Digital Diving with Noa Kaplan-Sears
1st Grand Prize @ the 2009 Yale Innovation in Digital Environments Awards
Digital Diving, hosted by the Digital Media Center for the Arts at Yale University
Interactive digital sculpture w/ music (John Cage)

Installation History:
Version using Wii Remote for navigation presented December 2008 in the Green Gallery at the Yale School of Art


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Minor Projects

4/09 The Melancholy Devil:
Friedrich Nietzsche's Gift of Albrecht Dürer's Melancolia I to Richard Wagner on Wagner's 57th Birthday in 1870

Interactive academic paper w/ text, screenshots, illustrations, photos, music (Richard Wagner)
Created for "Cross Cultural Eccentricities: Nietzche & Taoism," an experimental seminar taught by Dr. Huiwen (Helen) Zhang at Yale University.
Click here to download.
11/08 geometric machines for computer with Noa Kaplan-Sears
Interactive sculpture w/music (Cut Copy), video
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11/08 stereoscope v2 with Noa Kaplan-Sears
Interactive sculpture w/ music (Portishead), video
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1/10 geri halliwell vs. animal collective
Interactive mashup w/ music (Animal Collective), video
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2/10 m u s h
Interactive remix w/text, animation (choose your own music)
m u s h in the New Media Gallery, Museum of Computer Art

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Work in Progress

Of Paradise
Interactive play w/text, video, music, animation.

Scene 2 (sound by Cinematic Orchestra)
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Scene 5 (sound by Colorpulse)
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Scene 7 (sound by The Beatles)
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