Bibliographic record
Abstract
The first artist-run centre to receive funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, and therefore to be recognized as part of the institutional art system in Canada, was a homegrown product of what is known as Vancouver, British Columbia. Intermedia Society, which was active between 1967 and 1972, has been mythologized as having put into motion the Canadian artist-run centre movement as we know it today. As the first experimental multimedia collective to receive federal cultural funding, Intermedia may be considered the beginning of the institutional history of artist-run centres, which had previously manifested as ad hoc artists’ collectives and groups. This article drafts a prehistory of artist-run centres in British Columbia, which starts with citizen-led efforts to establish civic galleries in the prewar era, becomes amplified in the 1960s, and ends formally at the dissolution of Intermedia in 1972. By establishing this prehistory, I aim to answer the question: Why did the institutionalized artist-run centre movement start in British Columbia? I propose that a strong history of civic engagement with culture, combined with the geographical, social, and cultural specificities of British Columbia, played a role in developing a homegrown artist-run centre movement. The article develops a genealogy for British Columbian artist-run centres that includes citizen- and artist-led initiatives that spearheaded the development of the province’s cultural infrastructure. This genealogy revisits the early histories of the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and chronicles a rich record of local engagement with conceptual art practices and arts networks.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.027 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.024 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.071 | 0.011 |
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".