Bibliographic record
Abstract
Performative action and exhibition. The project 500 Pounds of Common Earth, 1 Metre Cubed, Transylvania to Los Angeles attempts to explore the limitations of representational apparatus and cultural paradigms both in an arts economy and in a broader socio-political arena. The importation of the Transylvanian earth from the Borgo Pass, Transylvania to the Southern Californian Desert via galleries in London, Dublin, New York and Los Angeles describes an east-west cultural paradigm by restaging and making 'real' part of a novel (Dracula by Bram Stoker) that is a late Victorian expression of anxieties concerning the ethical purity of the British Empire and its possible 'infection' by persons, economies and technologies fluid and seemingly unbound by notions of nationhood. The action of transporting the earth from Transylvania led to discussions with academics specialising in Romantic and Gothic literature based in Romania, Canada and the USA in order to find suitable agents to carry out the work and format the project in accordance with turn of the century fashions for epistolary fiction. Before leaving Romania the project became a central exhibit at the World Dracula Conference held in Piona-Brasov. It was selected by Austrian Cultural Foundation (ACF), London for exhibition and consequent funding of the initial stages of the production. www.austria.org.uk/art/The project website logged many of the documents, press and visual records resulting from the action. After being exhibited in New York and Los Angeles the project was adopted by the Centre for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), USA, an independent body funded by DIA and the Lanan Foundation's researching, purchasing and cataloguing 'abstracted sites' across the USA. The work is now permanently on display at the CLUI Desert Research Station, Southern California. (www.clui.org)
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.267 | 0.040 |
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".