Loss of agency as expression in avatar performance
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This chapter examines the role of agency as a tool for non-verbal communication in avatar performances staged in online multi-user virtual environments. These live online events have remediated established traditions of performance art and theatre practices into online spaces such as UpStage and Second Life. As with traditional performance forms, particular gestures within virtual worlds are also viewed by the local community as artistic. These gestures are frequently more abstract or codified than everyday gestures, changing their expressive value and significance. The authors focus on two avatar performances Lines (2009) and Spawn of the Surreal (2007), and explore the ways in which audience agency was manipulated in the creation of aesthetic experience. These artistic events demonstrate the strength of agency as an expressive tool and indicate an intriguing new direction for NVC research even outside of the performance context.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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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 it