Stephen Cornford
@stephen-cornford.bsky.social
broken media artist http://stephencornford.net/
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art @ Winchester
co-director @ https://criticalinfrastructures.net/
planetary futures / geotechnics / critical minerals / contemporary art / remote sensing / working in academia
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art @ Winchester
co-director @ https://criticalinfrastructures.net/
planetary futures / geotechnics / critical minerals / contemporary art / remote sensing / working in academia
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...
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-katka...
October 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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...
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...
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...
Lecturer in Art and Media Technology at University of Southampton
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October 9, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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...
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?
What are the most definitive student-friendly texts on / by the artist placement group?
September 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Question for the contemporary art people:
What are the most definitive student-friendly texts on / by the artist placement group?
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.
I still have copies available direct from me, should anyone be interested.
September 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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.
I still have copies available direct from me, should anyone be interested.
Reposted by Stephen Cornford
"Universities have become increasingly dependent on a proliferation of outsourced services, database providers + info mgmt systems, w/ spiraling costs... Understanding [the uni as an infrastructure stresses] that the tech it chooses to adopt follow a colonial + extractivist model...
CM Vol 25 CfP University as Infrastructure
Culture Machine Vol. 25 Call for Papers: University as Infrastructure Guest-edited by: Alexandra Anikina, Johannes Bruder, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Stephen Cornford, Kwame Phillips & Geoff Cox …
culturemachine.net
July 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"Universities have become increasingly dependent on a proliferation of outsourced services, database providers + info mgmt systems, w/ spiraling costs... Understanding [the uni as an infrastructure stresses] that the tech it chooses to adopt follow a colonial + extractivist model...
Reposted by Stephen Cornford
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.
culturemachine.net/vol25-cfp-un...
Please forward to your networks of jaded academics, precarious researchers, redundant faculty, and surveilled students.
CM Vol 25 CfP University as Infrastructure
Culture Machine Vol. 25 Call for Papers: University as Infrastructure Guest-edited by: Alexandra Anikina, Johannes Bruder, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Stephen Cornford, Kwame Phillips & Geoff Cox …
culturemachine.net
July 4, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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.
culturemachine.net/vol25-cfp-un...
Please forward to your networks of jaded academics, precarious researchers, redundant faculty, and surveilled students.
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.
culturemachine.net/vol25-cfp-un...
Please forward to your networks of jaded academics, precarious researchers, redundant faculty, and surveilled students.
CM Vol 25 CfP University as Infrastructure
Culture Machine Vol. 25 Call for Papers: University as Infrastructure Guest-edited by: Alexandra Anikina, Johannes Bruder, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Stephen Cornford, Kwame Phillips & Geoff Cox …
culturemachine.net
July 4, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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.
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--...
bookhaus - Bristol's radical home
I have managed bookhaus since the beginning. The owners have decided to retire, and I am raising the funds to buy it and carry on our legacy
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
June 27, 2025 at 8:29 AM
@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 Cornford
Worth 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.
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.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Worth 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.
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.
June 23, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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!)
June 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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!)
Reposted by Stephen Cornford
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...
stephencornford.net/blog/2025/06...
June 14, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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...
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.
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June 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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.
It’s like walking into a quiet room of familiar faces after a long day battling the hordes.
June 12, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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.
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.
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.
June 12, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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.
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...
The video is available online here: avantwhatever.xyz/w/ehoUNzadTM...
June 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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...
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.
Thanks to everyone who supported and released his music.
April 28, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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.
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.
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.
Planetary Experiments – DGTF German Society for Design Theory and Research
planetary-experiments.dgtf.de
April 23, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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.
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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Too many artists are unintentionally co-creating the culture necessary for fascist tech oligarchy. If our love for new tools: blockchain, VR/AR & AI is not matched by education on how white supremacy, eugenics, and oppression are entwined w this tech, our imagination becomes their servant.
April 15, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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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)
(sadly I will be missing it as parental duties call)
March 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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)
(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.
In every city I have ever lived in, or visited for a long time, the Turkish groceries are unsurpassed for price and quality.
March 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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.
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..
March 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I am going to need a bigger tripod at this rate..
More timelapse experiments in the Grünewald today.
March 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
More timelapse experiments in the Grünewald today.