Arcades as Intérieur: The Production of Distance in Sophie Calle and Janet Cardiff
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The work of French artist Sophie Calle and the Canadian artist partnership Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller localize this art critical consideration. My lens is Walter Benjamin’s writings on memory, trace, and narrative. Calle parlays her exercises in memorial site-reconstruction, and arbitrary assignments in tracking and detection through the deceptively descriptive media of photography and text. Her dubious construction of narrative, and the demands she makes on trust, result in a practice that requires both our romantic supplication and our skepticism. Cardiff and Miller similarly position their viewer/participants at the interstices of desire and doubt. Their work solicits memorial and sensorial vulnerability, such that we must give ourselves over in order to ‘complete’ the work. In the case of both Calle and Cardiff/Miller, histories are created in the here and now. Linking the distinctions Benjamin made between distance and trace and their intersection’s possibility for aura, I explore the auratic function of artwork that stresses process, produces distance and trace, and brings absence to experience.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.025 | 0.018 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.001 |
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".