A curatorial perspective on MOA’s ćəsnaʔəm, the City Before the City
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Museum of Anthropology (MOA)’s Fall 2015 exhibit, ćəsnaʔəm, the City Before the City, was an interactive artistic installation depicting contemporary and historical Musqueam First Nation life in the village of ćəsnaʔəm, situated at the mouth of the Fraser River in Vancouver adjacent to University of British Columbia. The co-curators worked with a Musqueam Advisory Committee of elders to create the kitchen table installation component entitled ‘gathered together’, consisting of a dining table and chairs inside a small room with an audio voice-over of Musqueam elders reminiscing about growing up to become the ‘knowledge keepers’ of their community. Curatorial practice and presentation drew museum visitors into an art education experience through memory, colloquial discourse, documentary storytelling, and visual art that particularly appealed as cultural history and socially engaged art in terms of intention, framing, making and wonder.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.079 | 0.052 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.025 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.015 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.015 | 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".