Bibliographic record
Abstract
The literature on performance art in Canada is finally developing into something that looks like the beginning of a critical mass.1 One notable recent contribution to this field was Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Canadian Women Performance Artists (2004), co-edited by Tanya Mars and Johanna Householder, both of whom have highly regarded reputations as performance artists, teachers and generators of contemporary arts culture in Canada. Mars herself is now the much-deserving subject of Ironic to Iconic: The Performance Works of Tanya Mars (2008). This anthology was published by Fado Performance Inc., an artist-run centre in Toronto devoted to the support of performance art activities, and was edited by its founder and former artistic director, Paul Couillard. Couillard intended this as the second in what he conceived over ten years ago as an annual publication series called Canadian Performance Art Legends but which, so far, has only resulted in one other publication.2 Couillard’s original optimism may have derived from the frenetically paced model of exhibition catalogues, which, in Canada, has remained the principle form of publications on contemporary art and artists. As Couillard discovered, however, the process of publishing a standalone book, whether a single- authored monograph or an edited anthology, is a much more complex and elaborate project, typically undertaken without institutional staff supports and thus relying on do-it-yourself initiatives.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.011 | 0.024 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.002 |
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".