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Record W2806433261 · doi:10.1111/var.12155

Electric Beads: On Indigenous Digital Formalism

2018· article· en· W2806433261 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
David Garneau

Bibliographic record

VenueVisual Anthropology Review · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicMuseums and Cultural Heritage
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIndigenousNavajoFormalism (music)MetaphysicsSociologyKinshipVisual artsAestheticsHistoryArtEpistemologyAnthropologyLinguisticsPhilosophy

Abstract

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This essay considers whether Indigenous artists employ digital media differently than do non‐Indigenous artists. The article distinguishes works that are illusions that users wittingly pass through to engage the content, and sticky works in which users are encouraged to get caught up in the pleasures of the form. Through readings of the beading animations of Jon Corbett (Métis) and the sound art of Raven Chacon (Navajo), I propose that when they are expressing themselves as Indigenous, Indigenous artists always make representational work, however abstract or experimental. They refer to kinship and history, relations with the land, and the metaphysical.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.015
Threshold uncertainty score0.030

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0030.020
Scholarly communication0.0050.006
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.036
GPT teacher head0.323
Teacher spread0.287 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2018
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