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Record W4415910880 · doi:10.1145/3749893.3749898

From Signal to Sensation: A Critical Practice of Affective Mediation

2025· article· W4415910880 on OpenAlexafffund
Mona Hedayati

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPosthumanist Ethics and Activism
Canadian institutionsConcordia University
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaUniversiteit Antwerpen
KeywordsForegroundingAffordanceNarrativeUnderpinningMediationPropositionAffect (linguistics)BiometricsCitizen journalismDyad

Abstract

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This paper discusses the multi-phase artistic research project Resonant Atmospheres which interrogates the logics of biometric technologies by critically reconfiguring their apparatus through participatory site-responsive performance. Drawing from feminist technoscience, critical data studies, and participatory paradigms in artistic research, the project challenges the epistemic assumptions underpinning emotion recognition systems, foregrounding the socio-political and cultural situatedness of biometric data. Rather than decoding bodily signals into emotional categories, Resonant Atmospheres transduces biological signals into ambient audiovisual environments, cultivating collective affective conditions that exceed the semantic leap common in computational deduction. In doing so, the project embraces affect as relational, contingent, and distributed—positioning biosensors not as instruments of truth-making, but as relational interfaces for co-construction of experience. Through public activations and feedback sessions with the audience, the work reorients biometric sensing away from extraction and toward relational resonance, generating atmospheres in which the affective dimensions of complex experiences such as migration can be sensed without being represented on a narrative level. The contribution offers both a critique of dominant data regimes and a proposition for how affective technologies can be subverted toward aesthetic and collective reimagining.

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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)0.034
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.031
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.034
Threshold uncertainty score0.180

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0340.031
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0050.002
Science and technology studies0.0110.164
Scholarly communication0.0200.023
Open science0.0040.013
Research integrity0.0060.011
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.001

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 head0.024
GPT teacher head0.387
Teacher spread0.363 · 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 designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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