Bibliographic record
Abstract
Already 289ms Away was made as part of a larger project of artistic research undertaken by David Prior and Frances Crow, which address the changing role of bells in contemporary culture. The piece was commissioned for BEAST FEaST 2015 at Birmingham University, where standing 100m tall (some say 99m, some say 110m), Old Joe is said to be the tallest freestanding clock tower in the world. Unlike a church bell, which defines the territory of a Parish, protecting those within it and calling the faithful to prayer, Old Joe has no sacred function, does not strike to warn of danger and provides no opportunity for ringing the changes. Striking the hours, Old Joe represents only the authority to mark time. However, standing at the foot of the tower, it already takes 289ms for the sound of the bell to reach our ears, and at the bell’s acoustic horizon it might take up to twenty seconds or more to be heard. Already 289ms Away was installed in a building right next to Old Joe, where the bells could be heard. Returning to the notion of a Parish central to our ongoing investigation into the culture of bells, the piece folds geographic and temporal space back into a central location. \n \nThe installation sounded every quarter hour in time with Old Joe’s bells. Eight loudspeakers placed around a circular balcony created carefully timed echoes of the bells that corresponded to different locations in the city, moving in a spiral over a twelve-hour cycle. At the beginning of the cycle, the delays were very short, creating a temporal blurring of the Old Joe bells that couldn’t be fully differentiated from the delays. Over the course of the twelve-hour cycle though, the delays become longer and longer, first being heard as echoes and then turning the chimes (the Westminster chime) into a complex musical canon. Already 289ms Away playfully exposes the flaw in the authority of the iconic sound of the bell then by celebrating the collapsing of time into distance.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.011 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
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.
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".