CHERYL SIM - YMX: MIGRATION, LAND, AND LOSS AFTER MIRABEL - Immersive Installation as Counter-Archive
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Cheryl Sim’s installation, YMX: Migration, Land, and Loss after Mirabel, took as its starting point two reanimated Solari “split-flap” information displays from departure Gates 46 and 48 at the ill-fated Montreal-Mirabel International Airport. Co-curated by Matt Soar (Professor of Communication Studies) and Danica Evering (MA Media Studies), YMX was an immersive installation that explored complex narratives of displacement and forced migration. Instead of an archive that complies with narrative definition, the embodied experience of an art installation allows for a more willful archive with multiple accounts converging and conflicting through many voices. This text is a reflection on Sim’s work by Evering in five parts—Arrival, Angle, Future, Will, and Departure—which alternates between archival images and documentation of the installation, theoretical and historical analysis of the work in plain text, and tangled interjections in italics.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| 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".