Bibliographic record
Abstract
This was a programme of my single screen video work curated and by Jon Davies for The Pleasure Dome, to tour 2 venues in Canada; The Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Toronto and Available Light, Ottawa. Kitchen-Sink Surrealism – by Jon Davies Over the past two decades, London-based artist Jennet Thomas has evolved a distinctive video practice that embraces a homespun aesthetic to produce absurdist narrative pleasures that stubbornly refuse reason. Strange and complex, Thomas’s work develops experimental forms of storytelling to make sense of what seems like an increasingly non-sensical world. In tapes like The Man Who Went Outside (2008) and Because of the War (2005), Thomas takes the sober British authority figure – broadcaster, politician, manager, teacher, clergyman, etc. – and subjects him to her comically bizarre scripts. The arbiters of rational order become a fount of delightful ludicrousness; as Sally O’Reilly has written, society’s “illusion of consensus” and “legibility” are befuddled. This Man who recurs in Thomas' work is just one ingredient of the rich stew of mass-cultural detritus and popular memory that she cooks up in each tape. Her concoctions give us a potent portrait of her kingdom’s quietly deranged collective consciousness. Thomas’s work taps into distinctly British currents of surrealist moving pictures, from Lindsay Anderson’s carnivalesque 1973 epic O Lucky Man! to the idiosyncratic work of fellow video artist John Smith to odd cult series like Doctor Who. The TV becomes a gateway for the surreal to be unleashed on the domestic home, providing entertainment for a British suburbia that Francis McKee has described as “seething with unconscious and repressed desires.”
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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 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.199 | 0.084 |
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".