Bibliographic record
Abstract
A book and internationally touring exhibition, A Handful of Dust is David Campany’s speculative history of the last century, told through the implications of one photography, Many Ray's 'Dust Breeding', 1920. \n\nThe project presents a hybrid theoretical model to deal with photography's innate hybridity. Moving between ontological reflections, media archeology, semiotics, psychoanalysis and institutional critique, Campany's multi-valent allows for hitherto separated domains of the images to inform each other: modernist art, surrealism, aerial photography, abstraction, forensics, war photography, polices photography, amateur snapshots, press photography and more. \n\n\n"David Campany’s intellectually ambitious book cum exhibition catalogue explores the motifs of dust, modernity and photography through the 20th century. Campany takes a single photograph, Dust Breeding, by Man Ray in collaboration with Marcel Duchamp to map the work’s uncharted links to a richness of images ranging from aerial reconnaissance pictures to conceptual art. The makeup of the book is simply brilliant as it offers two photographic volumes folded into one another, with the text encapsulated between them, a metaphor for the cumulative effect of ideas." - Roxana Marcoci, Senior Curator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York\n\nExhibition venues:\n\nLe Bal, Paris, September 2015-January 2016\n\nPratt Institute, New York, September 14 – December 2, 2016\n\nWhitechapel Gallery, London June 7 – September 2017\n\nCalifornia Museum of Photography, March 17 – December 9, 2018\n\nPolygon Gallery, Vancouver, February 8 – April 28, 2019\n\nRyerson Image Centre, Toronto, January 22- April 16, 2020
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".