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Record W4416516904 · doi:10.5406/21518009.51.2.15

Thinking-(queerly)-with the Crocus: An a-r-tographic Inquiry

2025· article· en· W4416516904 on OpenAlexaffabout
Nafisa Iqbal

Bibliographic record

VenueVisual Arts Research · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPosthumanist Ethics and Activism
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsQueerQueer theoryOpenness to experienceUndoingReading (process)Field (mathematics)HomosexualityFeminism

Abstract

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Abstract This essay contends with the absence of a generation of queer elders as a result of the AIDS epidemic, and the resultant loss of guidance and lineages of knowledge for my generation of queer folks. In the course of walking with public art, I encountered a field of crocuses behind the Vancouver AIDS Memorial at Sunset Beach and began to consider this as a message from our queer elders, employing an a-r-tographic disposition that allows for an openness to new sensorial, perceptual, and conceptual connections. By engaging with the queer archives of the HIV In My Day Oral History Project and the alphabet art of the queer typographer and artist Nat Pyper, as well as my own 35mm photography, I investigate the queer pedagogical potential of the crocus in teaching us about community, relationality, and resilience, through the making of images that serve the educative purpose of teaching and being a visual record of the emotional and lived experience of the AIDS epidemic.

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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)0.008
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.012
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.045
Threshold uncertainty score0.090

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0080.012
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0240.066
Scholarly communication0.0120.009
Open science0.0020.007
Research integrity0.0020.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.000

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 head0.175
GPT teacher head0.517
Teacher spread0.342 · 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 designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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