Beneath the multicultural mosaic: representing (im)migration displacement, and home in contemporary Canadian art
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis examines contemporary Canadian art practices, which aim to challenge the notion of multiculturalism as a purported 'solution' to the cultural, racial and ethnic diversity that comprises the nation. Specifically focusing on the work of Canadian artists, Jin-me Yoon, Kinga Araya and Ken Lum, I explore the mythology surrounding Canada's liberal pluralist politics and problematize the notion of nationalism as operating through a process of exclusion by privileging a white Anglo-Canadian norm. This system of exclusion complicates further the process of (im)migration, therefore, I explore the psychological and 'unhomely' experience of displacement as expressed visually through artistic practice. Furthermore, as a means of addressing multiculturalism and (im)migration, I acknowledge the need for more global modes of thinking, in proposing reconceptualizations of the notions home and nation that favour mobility, hybridity, and change over stable, static and pure definitions that sustain exclusionary politics.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".