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Record W4207003199 · doi:10.4000/interfaces.4208

Challenging the Selfie: Perfect Skin by Chatonsky

2021· article· en· W4207003199 on OpenAlex
Claire Larsonneur

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueInterfaces · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicSexuality, Behavior, and Technology
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSelfieMeaning (existential)Representation (politics)The artsSocial mediaVisual artsPerceptionArtAestheticsComputer scienceMedia studiesSociologyEpistemologyPhilosophyWorld Wide WebLaw

Abstract

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In the series Perfect Skin launched in 2015, Gregory Chatonsky, a French Canadian artist, ran an AI programme on the more than 5000 Tumblr and Instagram selfies posted by Kim Kardashian, to create distorted and serial representations of the celebrity which were then reproduced through a series of media: photo, video, textiles, ceramics, VR. Chatonsky challenges the genre of the selfie on several accounts. He highlights issues such as scale and exposure within the infoglut. Using algorithms also enables him to trigger cognitive and artistic shifts: from the visual arts to mathematics, from representation to data, from creative control to chance, from recognition to perceptual aporia, from social media to the gallery. These distorted and serialised images, “organes sans corps” to take up Deleuze’s famous concept, may pertain to a regime of meaning based on affect, as defined by Brian Massoumi, rather than on mimesis.

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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 categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.493
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

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 studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.031
GPT teacher head0.339
Teacher spread0.309 · 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