Bibliographic record
Abstract
It is for this reason that Emergence: Conte?nporary Photography in Canada is an important contribution to an understanding of Canadian photography. Emergence is smartly structured around a series of essays in which each author writes about three contemporary photo-based artists in relation to the idea of "emergence." In a brief section that follows each essay, the three artists discussed each contribute a short statement about another artist. In total, four essays survey the work of twelve artists, and these twelve artists, in turn, introduce the work of another rwelve artists. In these four essays, the authors present an interpretation of the idea of "emergence," developing a succinct analysis of a set of photographic practices that share a number of common ideas, and which, one assumes, can be described as "emergent." A final, additional essay by Katy McCormick deviates from this model, looking at the work of six former students of photography from Ryerson University, who are represented by a series of small portfolios that appear at the end of the book. In her essay, McCormick focuses on the roles various institutions have had in shaping these artists' work and careers. However, this piece makes it appear that the volume is exclusively about Ryerson alumni. (Indeed, Ryerson graduates are represented to a disproportionate degree in a book that purports to be about contemporary photography in Canada.)
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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".