Bibliographic record
Abstract
IT IS WANTING is a practice-based multi modal work that takes a variety of forms: 1) a multi modal performance comprising Video projection, physical and vocal performance with props and staging, 15 minutes duration 2) a single-screen video version of the above, incorporating re-staged performance mixed with video, 10.5 minutes duration. 3) A 1 minute edit of the video work has also been shown widely as part of a touring programme in the series curated by Kerry Baldry called ’One Minute Volume 12’. IT IS WANTING is a defiant, weird, multi-modal work using bar codes as its visual motif. It is a melancholy lament to over-production, compulsive consumption and toxic automation. A 60-year-old woman (the Filmmaker) confronts over-consumption and AI-fuelled misogynistic ageism with deadpan slapstick, a sculptural costume with related props and an intricate, animated video. Words are spoken and chanted on and off screen and accompanied by electronic and live music, made in collaboration with composer Matt Rogers. It is a frenetic performance of striped, coded beings enmeshed in a system that’s of their own making, yet out of their control. Ambiguities and interference patterns are embraced, as is the contradiction of the toxic and the sublime, the comic and apocalyptic. IT IS WANTING advances the development of a new, multi-modal formal vocabulary using novel combinations of moving image and performance genres. The work explores the development of an expressive vocabulary equal to the interrogation of acute contemporary anxieties; fears of extinction; unstable relationships with technology and ecological collapse. The single screen video has been selected for Video Data Bank’s international catalogue and distribution (see link below) Screenings of the 1 minute edit of the video work I have pasted here, for clarity, instead of inputting them in the field below as part of touring programme (1 Minute, Volume 12) curated by Kerry Baldry at: Storyhouse, Chester, UK, 6th July 2024 Close-Up Film Centre, London, 8th August 2024 Cube Microplex, Bristol 4th September, 2024 Visualcontainer + [.BOX] Videoart Project Space, Via Passerini 18, 20162, Milano. 12 -27 September 2024 The Birley Project Space, Preston. UK - 7th December 2024 C.A.R. Media Art Fair, Essen, Germany - March 2025 - Directors Lounge Contemporary Art & Media, Berlin CCA Glasgow 8 April 2025, UK LÁ Art Museum June 1st-19th July, Austurmörk 21, 810 Hveragerði, Iceland Le Cinoche Video, February 28th 2026Le Cinoche Video 2210 Mont-Royal Ave E, Montreal more info at http://oneminuteartistfilms.blogspot.com/
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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 | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.059 | 0.021 |
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".