Generating a Performance of the Constructed Self: Thirteen Minutes in <i>The Paradise Institute</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Paradise Institute, as exhibited in Toronto at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery at the Harbourfront Centre, is an oddity indeed. Straddling critical discourses, and occupying an ambiguous space within the context of the “white-wall” gallery, it defies standard means of investigation because it insinuates so many forms of art practice, incorporating visual art, sculpture, site installation, film, live performance and sound design. The work is the product of a long-time collaboration between high profile Canadian artists, and partners, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. This piece, their most recent collaboration, was commissioned by Wayne Baerwaldt – at the time adjunct curator at Winnipeg’s Plug In-ICA, now the director of The Power Plant – along with contributing partner The Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff), as Canada’s entry in the forty-ninth Venice Biennale (2001). The Paradise Institute won a special award at the Venice Biennale, and marked the first time that Canada garnered any kind of decoration at the prestigious art competition. It is significant that this piece won a special prize for “involving the audience in a new cinematic experience where fiction and reality, technology and the body converge into multiple and shifting journeys through space and time.”
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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) | 0.001 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".