Bibliographic record
Abstract
The purpose of my thesis is to explore the strange, seductive, and often complicated world of museum taxidermy. More specifically, the research aims to examine what roles art-making (in the form of participatory in-museum practice and subsequent studio-based research-creation) can play in conversations around taxidermied animals, and how these acts of art-making contribute to the generation of knowledge about the cultural display of animal bodies and wider discourses surrounding animal issues. This thesis has been realized in two distinct phases, firstly a participatory/collaborative art making museum intervention at the Redpath Museum at McGill University. The second phase of this research has been centred on the creation of a series of research-creation artworks, embodying and reconstructing the museum intervention and surrounding scholarship. Both phases have centred on four specimens of zoological museum taxidermy on display at the Redpath; a polar bear, a gorilla, a whooping crane, and a beaver diorama. Overall, the intervention at the Redpath Museum resulted in engaging a myriad of discourses around animal bodies activated as social objects. These discourses were then re-constructed and further disseminated through a process of research-creation in the form of eight mixed-method watercolour paintings/collages. These paintings/collages re-conceptualized the Redpath Museum itself as functioning as a kind of diorama, in order to highlight the differing contexts involved in the cultural display of animal bodies in museum spaces versus the lives of animals in the wild.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".