<i>Canada: Art d’aujourd’hui</i> : The Art of Diplomacy in the Wake of “Vive le Québec libre”
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 1967 the National Gallery of Canada mounted a major exhibition of Canadian art to circulate internationally as part of Canada’s Centennial celebrations. The project – a contemporary art show – was solicited by the Department of External Affairs (now Global Affairs Canada) in connection with the 1965 cultural agreement between Canada and France, and was scheduled to open at the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris in the fall of Canada’s centennial year. Bringing together the government’s foreign policy interest in the European Francophonie with the gallery’s established investment in representing Canada at the major centres of Western art, the exhibition serves as a case study of the way in which culture and diplomacy interact in practice. As the first state-sponsored exhibition of Canadian art to come out of a cultural agreement, the exhibition stands at a highwater mark in External Affairs’ growing interest in the use of exhibitions in its information and cultural work, which had taken root in wartime and grown in the postwar period with the increasing importance of culture in international relations. The move to instrumentalize the exhibition as part of Canada’s cultural agreement with France signalled a federal government turn toward cultural approaches to foreign policy that heralded the adoption of this exhibition type to advance Canada’s international cultural relations in a domain of activity dominated to date by the gallery’s fine art interests.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.054 | 0.003 |
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".