Unearthing: Indigenous Art as Environmental Activism in Contemporary Canada
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This research paper seeks to challenge the idea that Indigenous art is strictly based in heritage and has no place alongside contemporary works. The use of the word “Unearthing” in this title refers to often unseen and destructive environmental impacts, such as logging, while also referencing the act of discovery or “bringing to light.” With this project, I attempt to answer three questions:1. How have artists communicated the need for positive environmental change through their work?2. How have new forms of media been utilized in the creation of these works?3. What impact do Indigenous artists have on curatorial practices in museums and galleries? (What are the curatorial implications?)Curatorial practices refer to activities such as communicating directly with artists and presenting artwork to the public. This paper discusses a variety of environmental issues, exhibitions/installations, and Indigenous artists that have contributed to an ever expanding contemporary art scene in Canada that is often overlooked.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 it