Curators and Instagram: Affect, Relationality and Keeping in Touch
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Curators use Instagram like many individuals to post selfies and images of friends, special events, travel and other notable sights. Yet this platform has taken on special relevance in the art world by how it extends curatorial relationality and modalities of affective engagement. In this article, I survey accounts of curators whose Instagram accounts blur work/life dichotomies, adopt conceptual or feminist projects, and function as avenues for ethico-aesthetic intensifications of awareness. I argue that Instagram’s affect of proximal immediacy keeps users ‘in touch’ through a range of haptic modalities that in effect bring the art world into one’s hand; kinaesthetically mobilize users through ‘following’; and reveal the manners by which curators attune themselves to context.
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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 |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 it