From Rationing to Ravishing: Crossing Lines in Vancouver
Bibliographic record
Abstract
From September 17, 2014, to March 8, 2015, the Museum of Vancouver played host to an exhibition that staged the city’s transformation in the immediate post-WWII years as it went from a war-based economy to a burgeoning consumer society. Based on the collections of guest curators Ivan Sayers and Claus Jahnke, it featured 85 garments plus accessories that traced how the female experience in the city went from coping with austerity to showing off the availability of conspicuously sumptuous clothing to their best advantage. Approaching the exhibition as a material form of life-writing, I situate the exhibition both in terms of Sayers’ and Jahnke’s work as collectors and the museum’s as a public institution with the capacity to contribute to Vancouver’s globalizing image. \n\tThis presentation thus pushes the conceptual boundaries of what constitutes life writing and expands its interdisciplinary methods of study by looking at a display of material artefacts from Vancouver’s immediate post-war period, and specifically at their styling, which I argue infuses some of the city’s current style into the usually staid or gritty representations of Vancouver’s past. By comparing the exhibition with both other exhibitions that the curators have put on in the city and other contemporary cultural productions, I show how “From Rationing to Ravishing” provides the boutique metropolis that Vancouver has become with a backstory that draws attention to key aspects of the present, including the role of fashion in the growth of the city’s retail sector and its ability to cross the lines of gender, class, and race that continue to mark the city’s imaginary.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.026 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 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; 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".