Stephen Cornford
broken media artist stephencornford.net
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art @ Winchester
co-director @ criticalinfrastructures.net
planetary futures / geotechnics / critical minerals / contemporary art / remote sensing / working in academia
- For those few of my followers here who are actually interested in following what i post, please follow @stephen-cornford.assemblag.es.ap.brid.gy which will now bridge my posts from Mastodon. If anyone reading knows a way to merge or migrate this account to my bridged account please link me up!
- Next week my partner, Lenka Vrablikova, will become a liver donor to her identical twin Katka. They are raising money to cover the costs this life-saving surgery . Please donate if you are able to: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-katka...
- Come work with us! New Lecturer in Art & Media Technology job announced, to contribute to teaching on BSc Creative Computing and MA Fine Art. Join a growing department with excellent colleagues and good research allocations! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ192/l...
- Question for the contemporary art people: What are the most definitive student-friendly texts on / by the artist placement group?
- Just received an email from the publisher of my first artist book: Petrified Media that it is sold out from them (unless you buy it with a limited edition print). I still have copies available direct from me, should anyone be interested.
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- Call for Papers: Culture Machine, Vol. 25: University as Infrastructure culturemachine.net/vol25-cfp-un... Please forward to your networks of jaded academics, precarious researchers, redundant faculty, and surveilled students.
- Reposted by Stephen Cornford@bookhaus.bsky.social’s owners are retiring, and the manager - the brilliant Darran McLaughlin (alongside the equally brilliant Phil Wrigglesworth) are crowdfunding to buy the bookshop - they deserve all your support: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bookhaus--...
- Reposted by Stephen CornfordWorth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
- Train prices in the UK are so ridiculous that I’ve just heard an American couple discussing the relative cost of an Uber from Bristol to Heathrow.
- Sadly found out this weekend that this fox who has made a home in my garden for the last few months has now got quite bad mange, so I’m on a mission to treat it. Phase 1 - purchase meat and convince it to eat what I throw to it. (Hopefully this is the easy bit!)
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- The text from my talk yesterday in Dresden is up on my blog now for anyone interested enough and unable to be there, or tune in online. stephencornford.net/blog/2025/06...
- Respect to the young woman sitting behind me on my flight, who was clearly reading Mbembe over my shoulder and left the plane with a photo of the cover for reference. 💅🏾
- With all the crazy numbers of follows on this particular site I am finding the addition of a Mutuals timeline essential. It’s like walking into a quiet room of familiar faces after a long day battling the hordes.
- Off to Dresden to speak at Planetary Experiments. I’ll be presenting recent research on the imaging techniques used to measure carbon —in both industrial emissions and forestry absorption— and how these techniques present the possibility to use remote sensing in carbon governance and marketisation.
- Next week, as part of the Planetary Experiments conference in Dresden, a recently finished video work, ηEarth, will get its first public outing. The video is available online here: avantwhatever.xyz/w/ehoUNzadTM...
- Yesterday afternoon and evening I spent 4 hours lying on my back listening to the wonderful music of the sadly late Steve Roden. I know his music well and yet to spend this time with little else in my perception was extraordinary. Thanks to everyone who supported and released his music.
- Programme online & resistragtion open for Planetary Experiments: Environments by Design at TU Dresden on June 13. planetary-experiments.dgtf.de Looking forward to participating and to contributions from Open Weather (Soph Dyer), Orit Halpern, Thomas Pausz & many others, thx to Michaela Büsse.
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- BERLIN: tomorrow evening Openhaus at ZK/U includes some research and early footage from our film about Visual Cultures of Forest Carbon with Theo Stanley. (sadly I will be missing it as parental duties call)
- This is a Turkish Grocers appreciation post. In every city I have ever lived in, or visited for a long time, the Turkish groceries are unsurpassed for price and quality.
- I am going to need a bigger tripod at this rate..
- More timelapse experiments in the Grünewald today.
- Oh no! I just found out that Jonathan Sterne passed away. His writing was such a massive influence on my thinking and practice for most of my career. A sad loss.
- Dinner this evening in an absolute gem of Berlin: Seerose vegetarian buffet. Prices and vibe of last century, wonderful hearty dinner for €7.50 a plate. 😍
- Spent today with forest scientists discussing and filming the terrestrial laser scanning process which is used to measure biomass, carbon storage, and growth.
- Petrified Media, the artist book I made with Carel Fransen of The Eriskay Connection, was reviewed in the latest issue of Art Monthly. Thanks to Michael Hampton for his thoughtful engagement with it! (I still have some copies of this, if anybody wants one hit me up)
- Starting to dig into the German Colonial Bundersarchiv today, for precedents to the LiDAR image regimes of contemporary forestry:
- Filming today at #Tesla gigafactory on the outskirts of Berlin.
- How are natural disasters accounted for in carbon markets? In some years wildfires release as much CO2 as half of global emissions. While biogenic emissions like fires have historically been held in balance by natural seuqestration, is that true when wildfires are more widepsread and devastating?
- Unlikely find in the Berlin flohmarkt. Glass negative of some German foresters on their lunch break. Media histories of #ForestCarbon
- This morning’s location for physically demanding slow cinema production:
- Big tech will literally change the name of planetary bodies of water on the whim of an autocrat but I’m still not allowed to write the word FUCK in a text message.
- As of December 2020, there were a total of 156 #ForestCarbon Offset projects in the USA, totalling 185,088,866 carbon credits from 5,778,744 acres of forest.
- Travelling to Berlin today, where I will be in residence for the next two months at ZK/U Zentrum für Kunst & Urbanistik. Just made my second connection in Köln.
