Stage Backstage : Solo Exhibition, Donald Browne Gallery, Montreal
Bibliographic record
Abstract
“The spectacle is not a collection of images; it is a social relation between people that is mediated by images.” Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle (1967) Lynne Marsh explores the notion of “stage” as a physical structure and conceptual entity where the social and political mises en scène of human relations take place. This experimental platform is one of potentiality, gathering, exchange, translation and transmission. Stage Backstage presents a set of photographs taken on the production sites of two of Marsh’s recent film projects - Plänterwäld and The Philharmonie Project, shot in an abandoned amusement park and orchestral concert hall respectively. The artist has edited together a series of images that propose alternative theatrical scenery and stage settings. The gesture emphasizes the absence of players and the emptiness, as nothing is being performed. The “behind the scene” ambience and the vacancy of the space serve as an exploration of support and latency. Sound and movement, players and audience linger outside the image and create the tension between pause and action, stillness and potential.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.186 | 0.014 |
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".