Voice and identity in contemporary Canadian art: perspectives on vocality and representation
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis argues that voice is defined through both its material and representational status and is fully integrated within the construction of gendered and raced identities, as well as the process of identification itself. At the centre of each chapter is the notion that voice can be an alternate mode of encountering and experiencing the other. As an examination into the issues of contemporary Canadian art, this discussion is initiated from context of art practices but is not limited to this field. Using the works of Janet Cardiff, Geneviève Cadieux, Ken Lum and Rebecca Belmore, this dissertation connects artistic practices to the distinct themes of narrative, embodiment, representation, and place. All of these artists and themes are integral in explaining the connectivity of voice to identity and how this topic is relevant to and reflective of current issues of race and gender within Canadian society. The use of non-visual artistic practices is also evidence of how constructions of identity, when restricted to the visual field are regimented and informed by the ideological structures of the term 'visibility'. 'Visibility' and its metonymic link with overt politicized terminology such as 'visible minority' is a limiting factor in daily existence for many citizens who face discrimination based on regimes of viewing. This dissertation makes a case not only for expanding the critical terms from which to discuss contemporary Canadian art that falls outside of visual parameters, but it is also an examination of existing critical theories of identity. Aside from critiquing aspects of visuality, the following chapters will consider voice as an aspect of the material body and the represented body that is ever present, but rarely considered critically. Through the use of interdisciplinary feminist and postcolonial texts, this thesis constructs a critical framework from which 'voice' can be applied not only to
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 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".