Bibliographic record
Abstract
The interdependent dynamics of diasporic migrations and settlement are the focus of this dissertation, which rethinks the exclusion of Asian Canadian art from studies of art in Canada.While the arts have always been central to the formation of Asian Canadian communities, the exclusion of Asian Canadian art reflects an epistemological, political, and cultural bias.Earlier studies of art and diaspora in Canada have attempted to correct this exclusion through focus on incorporating works by Asian Canadian artists into existing disciplinary and institutional structures while questioning whether the construction of "Canada" itself remains a relevant site for knowledge production.This dissertation moves beyond questioning terms of representation and inclusion to instead investigate the work that Asian Canadian contemporary art enacts and the worlds that are constructed in the process of artists' engagements with diasporic histories and articulations of culture and memory.If multiculturalism is the dominant framework in Canada for understanding racial and cultural difference in overlapping national and global contexts, this dissertation thinks through more generative globally-oriented and locallysituated worldmaking practices evoked in pairing the terms "Asian Canadian" and "contemporary art."To examine the work that Asian Canadian contemporary art enacts, I theorize worldmaking as a situated action involving objects, stories, and landscapes of more than one place.It is this dynamic of one place and another-of simultaneous dwelling and displacement-that connects installation and media works by Dipna Horra, Karen Tam, Howie Tsui, and Jin-me Yoon analyzed in this study.By investigating specific sites-be it the spaces where their works are exhibited, or landmarks linked to community and/or iii personal stories, histories, and memories-the artists enact worldmaking by historicizing spaces of diasporic dwelling (rendering them important art-historical sites), recounting the multi-temporality of diasporic time, and expressing resonant experiences of migration, settlement, and emplacement.I argue that by viewing the site as a nexus for worldmaking in diaspora, we can conceive the capacity of Asian Canadian contemporary art to stress a shift away from Canadian art as a site of national identity formation to a processual understanding of Canadian art as a site that is continuously evolving.supervisors, Dr. Ming Tiampo and Dr. Sarah Casteel, who not only provided me with insightful feedback and encouragement but have also been important mentors and have helped me gain confidence in my abilities as a scholar.I am immensely grateful for their generous time and support of this research as it was reframed and polished over the past 7 years.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.048 | 0.032 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.017 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 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 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".