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Record W4407069997 · doi:10.5206/tba.v6i1.18966

The Column by Adrian Paci

2025· article· en· W4407069997 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Deborah Galante

Bibliographic record

Venuetba Journal of Art Media and Visual Culture · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMigration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsColumn (typography)OutsourcingGlobalizationChinaArt historyArtVisual artsHistoryEngineeringArchaeologyLawPolitical scienceTelecommunications

Abstract

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The Column is an artwork by Albanian-born and naturalised Italian artist Adrian Paci and is a twenty-five-minute video made in 2013 taking place on a ship departing from a marble quarry in China and directed towards Europe. The short movie follows a group of Chinese workers as they sculpt a marble block on a moving ship and transform it into a Corinthian column ready to be exhibited at the renowned art centre Jeu de Paume in Paris, France. Paci pays for and oversees the whole production: from the extraction in Bejing to the sea voyage, until its arrival ends showing at the Jeu de Paume. This brief yet poignant piece opens discussions on some of today’s critical concerns: globalisation, labour outsourcing, Western exploitation of migrant workers and a voracious consumer appetite for material goods.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.175
Threshold uncertainty score0.587

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.002
Scholarly communication0.0080.003
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1750.088

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.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.321
Teacher spread0.309 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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