Locked Grooves, a Circle of Hands. Paranormal Affects in Georgina Starr’s I am the Medium
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article examines the complex affects of I am the Medium, a vinyl record artwork and sound installation produced by Georgina Starr, a London-based visual artist affiliated with the second wave of Young British Artists ( yba s). This project was exhibited at the Le Confort Moderne in Poitiers, France in 2010. Starr’s limited- edition lp features recordings made during séances in which she participated over the period of a year. Formally, the record is extraordinary in that it is structured in the form of locked grooves, rather than the spiral continuum of conventional vinyl recordings. Each discrete track consists of a 1.8 second phrase that repeats, creating a mantra-like incantation that resonates in the gallery atmosphere. Much in the same way that sound vibrations are captured and replayed on vinyl records, the etheric signatures of spirit entities manifest through mediumistic channeling. Issues of mediumship raised by this work will be situated in relation to Starr’s sound oeuvre, particularly her projects that have deployed paranormal methodologies.
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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
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| 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) | 0.000 | 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".