Materiality and "l'art intégré": Charles Daudelin's Art in the Urban Context
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Abstract
A politic of integration of art in urban spaces emerged in Quebec during the 1960s. Moving away from the art of the monument, artists in Quebec began to create contemporary art designed specifically for an urban context. Charles Daudelin was part of a new generation of artists experimenting with the possibilities of urban art, changing the relationship between art, the public and the manner both come into contact. This thesis will explore the contribution of Daudelin to the emergence of art in the urban context and to what eventually became categorized as “public art”. Inspired by Le Corbusier’s “synthèse des arts” concept, Daudelin established his own artistic practice that involved greater collaboration between artists and architects, as well as any actors involved in public projects. Using several of Daudelin’s projects as case studies, this thesis will explored how Daudelin elaborated his approach to urban art and what he referred to as “l’art intégré” – an expression he used to name the course he established and taught at L’école des beaux-arts de Montréal from 1964 to 1968. \n\tFollowing a critical analysis of Daudelin’s artistic practice, this thesis will aim to establish Daudelin’s lasting contribution to public art as well as the different shortcomings of his understanding of art in an urban context. Using theoretical writing on the nature of public space and its relation to art, I will define Daudelin’s understanding of public space in the context of emerging interventions that questioned the open and democratic discourse surrounding public space.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.023 | 0.062 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".