Bibliographic record
Abstract
H& IT ON probes the turbulent social environments generated by information \ntechnologies. In a suite of all-new photo- and language-based works, conceptual artist \nIAIN BAXTER& (a.k.a. Iain Baxter) stages a satirical theatre of far-from-equilibrium \nbehaviours and trends characteristic of a chronically web-surfing culture. The artist’s \nintervention loosely adapts the irreverent format of Marshall McLuhan’s 1967 \ncollaboration with graphic designer Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Massage—a \nconstant inspiration to “the&Man,” as BAXTER& has recently re-branded himself—to \nexplore the effects of social media on the contemporary information landscape. But make \nno mistake, there is nothing nostalgic about BAXTER’s nod to the “McCoolman,” as he \ncalls him. As in all his work since 1968, BAXTER&’s approach to information is always \nhands on. H& IT ON follows BAXTER& as he plays with and repurposes artifacts and \naffects circulating within the trade routes of the Information Society to create an unruly collage of observation and ideas. H& IT ON also includes new essays by Adam Lauder \nand Dennis Durham that, for the first time, situate BAXTER&’s pioneering information- \nbased practice historically within a North American context. Lauder’s essay positions \nBAXTER& within a distinctly Canadian tradition of information art characterized by a \npersistent focus on affect, embodiment, and the multitude. The first history of \ninformation art in Canada, Lauder’s “Trade Routes of the Mind” explores Canadian \nartists’s reading against the grain of indigenous formulations of information and the \nInformation Society in the work of Harold A. Innis, McLuhan and others—from Bertram \nBrooker to General Idea and beyond. Durham’s essay compares and contrasts \nBAXTER&’s art of Visual Sensitivity Information as Co-President of the Vancouver- \nbased N.E. Thing Co. with cybernetic representations of entropy found in the \ncontemporaneous work of American artists Robert Smithson and Dan Graham. Durham’s \nessay is essential reading for understanding the international significance of BAXTER&. \nH& IT ON also includes a preface by renowned McLuhan and BAXTER& scholar, Richard Cavell.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.012 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.030 | 0.023 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.020 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.029 | 0.003 |
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".