Escaping the Tyrannies of Geopolitical Space: Cuban Artists and Curators Operating Outside the Parameters of Sanctioned Institutions
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this essay, we examine the themes of cultural transmission, transformation, and exchange within a transnational and trans-local framework. We specifically focus on Cuban cultural production on and off the island through its visual arts. Through a transtemporal and transgenerational perspective, we explore the artwork, exhibitions, and “institutions” produced by key Cuban diasporic artists Leandro Soto and Carlos Cárdenes and curator Solveig Font. They have successfully established themselves domestically and internationally outside of sanctioned cultural and state institutions by creating transnational and transcultural modes of production and exchange. We envision, therefore, the boundaries of Cuban art, artists, and curators as a network that includes the Cuban diaspora and its multiple, sometimes contradictory or antagonistic, but not less emotionally charged, relationships with the island. Cubanness thus extends beyond the limits of the nation-state and enters a state of perpetual becoming.
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| 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 it