289 <i>The Nova Tuskhut</i> : A Walk-in Archive of “Arctic” Things
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Abstract
This paper provides an in-depth tour to the design and philosophical underpinnings of The Nova Tuskhut (2014-2025) a built-in diorama of the "Only Arctic Trading Post in the Lower 48 States," an installation at the Velaslavasay Panorama (VP) in Los Angeles.Its debut was paired with two of the VP's projects and works: Effulgence of the North (2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017), a major 360-degree painted panorama with sound and light cycle, and the lobby exhibit Nancy Columbia and the Arctic Beyond (2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018).Nancy Columbia, a famed Inuit film star, was born into the spectacle of "Eskimo Village," an Arctic obsession at the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exhibition that imposed its colonial name on her.By birth, Nancy Columbia's life was enveloped in an installation of stolen and simulated memory, displayed to shifting audiences who both admired and remembered her and jointly penned the world in which she lived.As an immersion installation, The Nova Tuskhut relies on fleeting and fragmented vignettes of ephemera, specters of polar lifeways, and on the embodied experiences shared by the curators and the visiting public as the wooden hut manifests for over a decade.It features a well-stocked pantry, library, wood burning stove, bear pelt, picturesque window view, and a fireside cot.But as the hut's de-installation and digitization near, its next manifestation in the digital ether renews the rumination of the gains and losses of these polar legacies that haunt preservation works and artist installations amid the process of conception-execution-reproduction.From a place within The Nova Tuskhut, we interrogate the possibilities and constraints of a material immersive medium and its digital counterparts as a tool and institution of memorialization.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.047 | 0.016 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".