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Record W4408065260 · doi:10.1080/14794713.2025.2465949

The Invisible Labour Loops project – Tracing Maternal Labour

2025· article· en· W4408065260 on OpenAlex
Jen McGowan

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicInterdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies
Canadian institutionsEmily Carr University of Art and Design
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTracingVisual artsSociologyLabour economicsComputer scienceArtEconomicsProgramming language

Abstract

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This document presents practice-based research for the author and artist’s thesis installation centering on the invisible labour of motherhood. Invisible Labour Loops uses the digitally animated loop, representing never-ending tasks and gestures that keep a family maintained, to expose labour normally concealed within the home. Hands rotoscopically traced as line drawings perform circular gestures that visually represent both the unceasing quality of care labour, and the persistent nature of its devaluing. The author presents the project as a portal – forming a connecting spiral between current post-pandemic politics, and the work of prior feminist artists and scholars – particularly those of the 1970s second wave. Perhaps most notably, it is through this research and artmaking, that the author herself transforms into a mother who can better resist patriarchal, capitalist agendas.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.705
Threshold uncertainty score0.577

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.320
Teacher spread0.302 · 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