Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article examines public art’s relationship to urban mega-events through a case study of “The Games are Open,” a durational outdoor artwork that was constructed from Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic–detritus by Berlin-based artists Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser. Taking the form of a larger-than-life bulldozer with shovel down, it faced the expanse of interim lands awaiting future development along Vancouver’s South East False Creek. Exposed to weather, soil, and the passing of time, the artwork was intended to give way to a process of gradual decomposition, its form providing fodder for new growth. Over the four years of the project’s existence, its form shifted from sculpture, to garden, to dirt pile, each transformation driven by the agendas of assumed owners. This article chronicles the artwork’s co-option within the context of land speculation that is embedded within Vancouver’s history of building up and tearing down. It relates how the protection and control of property spawned by mega-events influenced the project’s outcome.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".