The Walk Book de Janet Cardiff et Mirjam Schaub : l’écoute par le livre
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Walk Book by Janet Cardiff and Mirjam Schaub : Listening to the Book. The notion of the mediating role of sound is discussed in this analysis of The Walk Book (2006), a hybrid work co-created by German critic Mirjam Schaub and Canadian artist Janet Cardiff. It continues the tradition of audio walks developed by Janet Cardiff beginning in 1997. The visitor, carrying a walkman and sometimes a portable video player, is guided by the artist’s voice along a path that weaves through a town or museum. In order to ensure the comprehension of the reader/spectator, the discourse has been enhanced by careful work on graphic design, the invention of a font, and the insertion of fragments that blur the boundary between text and paratext. This study, in the wake of analyses by Caroline Jones, attempts to contradict the commonly accepted idea of the transparency of sound by combining it with a new field of research : the study of the book in cases where this medium oscillates between its function as a vehicle for criticism and as an artistic experience unto itself.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.001 |
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".