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Record W2915908938

The Detail, Photographed: Reimagining the Monument

2019· dissertation· en· W2915908938 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Elaina Poleto

Bibliographic record

VenueUWSpace (University of Waterloo) · 2019
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPhotography and Visual Culture
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVisual artsNational monumentCartographyArtGeographyArchaeology
DOInot available

Abstract

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Architectural monuments lie scattered in small communities throughout Ontario, hidden by the everyday, masked by the sub-urban streets. The sub-urban streets where I lived felt impersonal and unnatural, with cookie-cutter designs and sterile atmosphere, with no sense of place. This lack of character, this illusion of the perfect suburbs, inspired the search that went beyond the ordinary to seek out the extraordinary.
\n I began a pursuit to find monuments with value, to explore their histories, to observe their architecture, to photograph with a new perspective. I chose eight distinct heritage buildings to explore. Each preserves an identity, each holds expression, manifests character, each became a monument to my observations. One can appreciate the thoughtfulness that went into every detail, the craft that went into every patterned brick, the design that locates the heart of the home. 
\n Observations shape unnoticed potentials; they change each building, bringing it into the present. A photograph must do more than freeze time. Photography, like other creative acts, must interpret its subject matter. A photograph is powerful; it can be uplifting, it can be insightful, moving, and even imaginative. But when a photograph is part of a series of photographs, an accumulation of details that unfolds the story of a building, then it’s not just about what an individual photo says by itself, but instead it is about how the image forms connections with other stories, histories, forces, and sensations. 
\n This thesis in its entirety is an experiment, formed from individual elements brought together, creating unforeseen connections. It is for the observer to define what they see in the history, the images, and the narrative.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.714
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.206
Teacher spread0.190 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

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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Published2019
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