Bibliographic record
Abstract
The fascination with Pop culture and commodity aesthetics has a long history within art practice. While much of this art has concerned itself with a celebration of commodities as desirable objects, relatively little attention has been afforded the critical examination of the processes by which they are produced and consumed. This specially commissioned and designed book counters this trend by critically examining artists who have looked past the seductive allure of the commodity to linger with the rituals of exploitation and alienation underpinning such cultures of excess. Artists discussed include Andy Warhol, Larry Sultan, Santiago Sierra, Louise Lawler, Edward Burtynsky, Melanie Jackson, Common Culture, Julian Rosefeldt, Wang Qingsong, Alexnader Gerdel, Richard Hughes, Op de Beeck. A major exhibition of these artists, curated by Campbell and Durden, will take place at the newly refurbished Bluecoat, Liverpool in April 2008. \n \nThe book is authored by Mark Durden and David Campbell, who work collaboratively as part of the artists’ group, Common Culture. The book emerged from debates arising out of Common Culture’s involvement in Tate Liverpool’s Shopping exhibition, 2002/3, and provides both an important historical critical context for their practice as well as a detailed and substantial text on relationships between art and commodity aesthetics from New York’s Neo Geo artists to the Venezualan artist, Alexander Gerdel. \n \nAspects of the book’s text stem from a series of writings on consumerism, class and art by Durden— essays on Tracey Emin and John Goto (the latter with David Campbell) for the Canadian journal, Parachute, Nos. 105, 2002, and 115, 2004; an essay on Razvan Ion for his book, Visual_Witness, New York and Bucharest: artphoto, 2004 and essays and reviews on Philip Lorca diCorcia and Boris Mikhailov, published in Portfolio Magazine.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.027 | 0.015 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.009 |
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".