Making an Exhibition of a Theatre Audience: Research Through Photography
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Rachel Nash and Will Garrett-Petts observe, “There is relatively little about…research through\nvisual art (where artistic practice becomes a vehicle for producing and presenting new knowledge).”\nThis paper is a case study of a photographic exhibition employed as both an end in itself and a means\nto enhance the profile of a project of which it forms a part and to thereby generate public involvement in\nour research. As part of our CURA research on professional theatre as a builder of community in\nsmall cities, James Hoffman and I engaged audience members of Western Canada Theatre as subjects\nin a photographic exhibition shot on the theatre stage, shown in the theatre lobby, and documented in\na catalogue. This paper will explain and analyze the processes of recruiting, photographing, and\ninterviewing the subjects. It will also describe exhibition and catalogue preparation and provide the\ntheory and rationale behind our attempts to incorporate visual research and other unconventional\napproaches into our work as we reach beyond traditional surveys of theatre audiences.
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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 | 0.013 | 0.024 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 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".