Bibliographic record
Abstract
Title: Modern History Volume 1 \nExhibition: The Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool \nDate: 24/04/2015 — 13/06/2015 \nCurated by Lynda Morris \n \nAlker had four paintings selected for the exhibition Modern History Volume 1. This group of paintings are part of an ongoing series in which the artist investigates the temporal condition of painting using unorthodox and impermanent grounds. In this case commercially produced post-it notes. Thematically this group of works explore the relationship between painting, landscape and cinematic narrative. \nThe exhibition curator was Lynda Morris and Modern History Volume 1 took place at the Grundy Art Gallery in 2015. Modern History was a survey show of contemporary art practice seen in the context of historical discourse in the ‘modern’ era. This was work 'reflecting on historical change, particularly since the 1960s, or by looking at the global historical moment we are in' \n \nIn the text Morris articulates the relationship between dramatic narrative and painting in the post-it note paintings \n'David Alker’s four tiny paintings on pads of post-it notes, are paintings of pictures. His subject matter is gas stations from .. movies of a certain age. The quality of his paintings echoes a memory of Edward Hopper. Alker is painting a European view of US visual culture, a kind of reversal of Pop Art' \nAlker’s research into landscape, cinema and film narrative in Modern History is an extension of an earlier series titled the silver’s been gone for 40 years. These principally text-based works were shown in the exhibition COMMONWEALTH curated by Denise Hawrysio for MKG127, Toronto in 2009. \n.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.527 | 0.174 |
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".