I've created Portfolio Submission Template as a guild for new applications intended to follow the workflows standardized across the US for graduate school art applications.
Presented as a Structural Assistant supplementing the UCLA Graduate Division Application, Stop interpreting me (2022) defines an 'image' computationally: as a process of execution interpreted through hyperlinks.
I've cast my application as an interpreter in the sense that I'm telling the user/reader that, when words are blue, click on them to bring to life dynamically loaded javascript modules assembled and interconnected as they are rendered into the application. Stop clicking when the spatiotemporal conditions that constrain the application review process are met.
Most art schools require some form of portfolio review process for admissions: in this case, potential candidates are asked to submit 15 "still images". Because there is a limit for how many images can be executed (15), and how many pages can be included in a document (75), I have parsed my portfolio into hares because there is no limit on hares.
Hares are a metaphor for the dynamic page objects fetched from various servers and rendered into the browser's lineup. The numbers count down as inert specifications brought to life as hares when rendered into the browser's visual field.
Stop Following Me encodes an excerpt from a single-channel film shot on the University of Iowa campus, in 2019, featuring a series of performance driven monologues based on Georg Büchner's Wozzeck(1837/1913), into the application.
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