POINT OF ORIGIN: THE GLOBAL POSITIONING OF RECENT VANCOUVER ART
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis examines the way in which Vancouver art is positioned in terms of its geographical origin, “Vancouver Art,” by “Vancouver Artists” in three case studies, Baja to Vancouver (2003-2005), Intertidal (2005-2006) and Vancouver’s Cultural Olympiad (2007-2010) that accompanied the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. It is my contention that the three case studies taken up in this thesis embraced place-promotion through the arts and culture, the Floridian language of economic instrumentalization of art and creativity, and the global projection of Vancouver art through the geographical positioning of arts and culture. I consider how the city-centric positioning of Vancouver art has antecedents in Vancouver art history but has lately acquired an increasingly promotional significance as major cities are looking to the work of urban-planning theorists such as Richard Florida whose work champions economic instrumentalization of culture and the branding of cities globally through the arts. In each of the case studies the curatorial positioning stressed the local or regional engagement of the work and simultaneously championed its global relevance. Not only a curatorial endeavor, the surrounding catalogue, critical and\njournalistic writing on Vancouver art presents the city and its art production in the same manner. While the artistic practices and works represented in the exhibitions may critique and comment on Vancouver’s global condition, much of the writing and curatorial theses remain optimistic in tone in the pursuit of global visibility.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 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".