Bibliographic record
Abstract
Canadian artist Joyce Wieland’s quilt-like Defend the Earth (1972), a work of public art installed in the National Science Library in Ottawa, had rarely been seen or written about over the past 50 years, until its inclusion in Joyce Wieland: Heart On, a 2025 retrospective exhibition. Wieland had previously made environmentally oriented artworks, but the scale and ambition of this seven-metre-long textile work deserve to be studied in relation to the radical, citizen-oriented ecological activism that swept across Canada and many other parts of the world in the 1960s and early 1970s. This article focuses on the artwork’s use of language, problematizing the imperative statement “Defend the Earth” by asking whose voice is uttering these words, and who (what addressee, what public) the words were intended for. The medium chosen to deliver this message was also crucial: sewn and embroidered cloth, resembling traditional quilts. Wieland was indeed at the forefront of a wave of feminist artists who were reclaiming and reinventing so-called women’s work. It is therefore argued that, with Defend the Earth, Joyce Wieland invented a new kind of ethical public art that combined both ecological and feminist politics.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.038 | 0.021 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.001 |
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".