Bibliographic record
Abstract
Modern Primitive (2020–Ongoing)Ink and Pencil Crayon on Paper Abdi Osman (bio) The COVID-19 pandemic represents a period in time in which people all over the globe witnessed the hypervisibility of white supremacist violence, anti-Black racism, and Black activism on a global scale. Inspired by this, Modern Primitive (2020) is a new series of drawings I began in March 2020 that features colorful portraits of individuals who are both known and unknown to us. Using familiar cultural tropes like “Karens/Kevins,” “Anti-Maskers,” and “Anti-Vaxxers” as character studies, which are also invoked in/by each individual work’s title, Modern Primitive offers intimate glimpses of what living together as well as apart looks like and means to/for different people in a/our shared world(s) yet with diverse and distinct realities. Resisting traditional art histories and notions of “primitivism” that are based on Eurocentric, modernist constructions of other cultures as “exotic” and “Other,” these images portray popular subjects in rough figural poses and gestures akin to how “non-white” cultures have been historically misrepresented as less sophisticated and “civilized” than white artists and “modern” cultures. Here, the white gaze and its logics that have for so long defined ethnographic portraiture and visual culture are subverted and replaced with/by a critical, contemporary, queer Black lens and gaze. [End Page 151] Click for larger view View full resolution “Road Trip” (2020), part of the COVID drawings. [End Page 152] Click for larger view View full resolution “Scored Club Vaccine tickets, after waiting for hours” (2021), part of the COVID drawings. [End Page 153] Click for larger view View full resolution “Slaying for the Lord” (2021), part of the COVID drawings. [End Page 154] Click for larger view View full resolution “Self-Portrait” (2020), part of the COVID drawings. [End Page 155] Click for larger view View full resolution “You Better Put Some Respek” (2021), part of the COVID drawings. [End Page 156] Abdi Osman abdi osman is a Somali-Canadian multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on questions of Black masculinity as it intersects with Muslim and queer identities. He has shown across Canada and internationally, including the 2022 Berlin Berlinale; the Art Museum at the University of Toronto; Gardiner Museum; Art Gallery of Mississauga; Thames Art Gallery; The National Museum of Kenya (Kenya); Goethe Institute, Johannesburg (South Africa); and Iwalewahaus, The Centre for African Contemporary Art and Culture (Germany). Osman was a community leadership resident at the Queer and Trans Research Lab (QTRL) housed at the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto in 2021–2022. Copyright © 2023 Frontiers Editorial Collective, Inc
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.036 | 0.005 |
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".