Bibliographic record
Abstract
Commissioned by Glasgow International 2018, Self-Service was a collaborative project produced in response to the archives of The Peckham Pioneer Health Centre. The title derives directly from the archives of the Peckham Experiment, which not only exists in the Wellcome Trust and RIBA but has strangely found its home in an unofficial private archive in Glasgow. Collaborator Kirsty Hendry, Ilona Sagar came across a leaflet in the Glasgow archive with the caption: ‘Self-service not an expedient but a principle.’ The statement reads as a provocative foretelling. The hyphen of self-service troubles the position of ‘self’ within this transaction. Does it refer to self-in- service, self-serving or self-determining, self-sufficiency or self-care? Taking the form of an event series and publication, Self-Service bought together new works, and a range of invited collaborators and contributors to explore the history, design, and social context of welfare – examining our increasingly uneasy and technology infused relationship to health, wellbeing, and labour. The publication included newly commissioned text by Ilona Sagar, Emma Balkind, Clara Crivellaro & Alex Taylor, Luke Frost, Kirsty Hendry, Alberta Whittle and Gary Zhexi Zhang. On the 26th April 2018 there was a screening programme that was the first of two events, developed as a companion to the publication. The event brought together artists’ moving image works by Liz Magic Laser, Julien Previeux, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Alberta Whittle, Leeds Animation Workshop, Ilona Sagar and Kirsty Hendry. Selected works explored how the politics of health are tangled with ideas of compliance, prosperity, and control. The second event, Lab-oratory launched on the 6th May 2018 and was inspired by a serial publication authored by the members of the Peckham Experiment and titled ‘The Guinea Pig’. Through talks, discussion, and working directly with the archive, we collectively generated new responses to the original materials. Lab-oratory was a public event that considered questions of voice, agency, and authority in relation to the archive. Contributors included Dr Elsa Richardson (Historian and Chancellor's Fellow University of Strathclyde), Dr Lisa Curtice (The Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland and Research Fellow in Health Policy University of Strathclyde and chair of the Pioneer Health Foundation), Henrietta Trotter (who worked as a student biologist at the Pioneer Health Centre), John Curtice (political scientist and BBC journalist), and Christopher Trotter (member of the Pioneer Health Foundation).
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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 | 0.006 | 0.015 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.017 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.150 | 0.071 |
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".