Bibliographic record
Abstract
Exhibition Dates: August 26 - October 7, 2023 Exhibition Venue: Centre for Cultural and Artistic Practices, Winnipeg, Canada Dancing For Dummies is a solo exhibition of paintings, ceramics, and performance video at Centre for Cultural and Artistic Practices, Winnipeg, Canada (26th August- 7th October 2023). The production and shipment of works was funded by Canada Council for the Arts and Centre for Cultural and Artistic Practices. The exhibition was by invitation of gallery director and curator Luther Konadu. Eyres’ paintings are based on “before” images found in beauty makeover manuals from the 1980s. Her methodology includes selecting, scanning, and editing these images before painting them in a realist manner on small scale (30 x 30 cm) canvases. These paintings are hung above a mantel-like shelf that outlines the gallery, displaying a series of ceramics works based on books (including a stack of For Dummies textbooks, Sweet Valley High books, ashtrays, a sandwich, a bowl of cereal, a box of matches). The ceramic sculptures are rendered by hand with realist detail to become corpse-like duplicates that evoke an ambiguous, psychological space that invites viewers to project their own narratives. In the basement, Eyres presents Learn to Dance, a single-channel video projection. The work emulates the format of a dance tutorial and features the artist in self-transformation as dance instructor and three students. Using greenscreen technology, the characters are set in a 1980s style doll house. The dialogue borrows language from a Learn to Lap-Dance VHS tape, self-help literature, ‘Lacan for Beginners’ and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. Eyres wrote, shot, edited, and performed all the characters. The exhibition was accompanied by a commissioned text by Alex Athea and reviewed by Rodney La Tourelle for the February 2024 edition of Art Review. A screening of early videos from Eyres was held at Winnipeg Film Group in collaboration with the gallery on 2nd September 2023. The exhibition was viewed by over 500 people and the screening was attended by 60 people.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.437 | 0.127 |
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".