<i>Reading the Colonial Archive through Joscelyn Gardner’s</i>Creole Portraits I–III
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The work of contemporary Barbadian-Canadian artist Joscelyn Gardner engages extensively with the Caribbean historical archive as it manifests in the form of published books, museum collections, paintings, and unpublished plantation journals. In her lithographs as well as her multi-media installations, Gardner refers to a whole range of early Caribbean sources in the form of written or visual quotations, most importantly Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (1705) and the diaries of Thomas Thistlewood. Gardner’s three series of lithographic prints, Creole Portraits , combine detailed drawing and handwriting, challenging the visual and written languages of eighteenth-century colonial culture in the Caribbean. For Gardner, lithography as practice – with its close connection to the history of the book – not only opens the colonial ‘book’ to new readings from the perspective of a contemporary Caribbean artist, but it also addresses the question of what constitutes a book more generally in the context of current art practice in the region.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.002 |
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".