Life, the universe and everything: The artist's book as a means of theoretical, political and social consideration of the natural world
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Peer reviewed conference paper given at the IMPACT 7 Multi-disciplinary Print Conference, Monash University, Australia, September 2011. \n \nNature and the landscape surround us and we depend upon them. Many artists explore our relationship with the natural world and society at large, and those discussed in this paper work predominantly in the format of the artist's book. Their work also utilises the Internet, performance, video and music to explore the wider questions of how we live in, observe, treat and understand our wider natural surroundings. The Canadian artist Bill Burns begs us to respect humanity, nature and wildlife through books such as 'Safety Gear for Small Animals'. His political works around Guantanamo Bay detention camp, and the accidental bombing of National Farm Seed Bank at Abu Ghraib, demonstrate the far-reaching implications on our current and future landscape. Angie Waller (USA) wonders why people assume they are in the most boring place in the world, and artists Julie Johnstone (UK) and Eric Watier (France) each use minimalist texts to ask us to stop and reflect for a moment on the small but significant changes that take place in nature. The Norwegian artist Kurt Johannessen has performed and published many artworks since 1984, that seem incredibly simple yet ask searching questions about the universe and exactly how we might fit into it. From requesting that artists, poets and writers telephone at a certain time and recite a story about the moon, to his use of humour in the book and performance lecture 'Am I a frog?' where he discusses scientific and philosophical theories of sense and consciousness to find out whether he is indeed a frog.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".