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...
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.
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!)
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...
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.
ηEarth considers the role of rare earth metals in our energetic futures & astronomical explorations. The work draws connections between applications of multispectral remote sensing across different disciplines and fields, specifically spectral geology and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.
June 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
ηEarth considers the role of rare earth metals in our energetic futures & astronomical explorations. The work draws connections between applications of multispectral remote sensing across different disciplines and fields, specifically spectral geology and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.
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...
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)
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.
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. 😍
March 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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.
March 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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)
(I still have some copies of this, if anybody wants one hit me up)
March 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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)
(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:
March 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Starting to dig into the German Colonial Bundersarchiv today, for precedents to the LiDAR image regimes of contemporary forestry:
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?
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?
March 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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?
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
Media histories of #ForestCarbon
March 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Unlikely find in the Berlin flohmarkt. Glass negative of some German foresters on their lunch break.
Media histories of #ForestCarbon
Media histories of #ForestCarbon
This morning’s location for physically demanding slow cinema production:
March 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM
This morning’s location for physically demanding slow cinema production:
This is the Cumberland Mountains in West Virginia, from which Bluesource LLC (now rebranded as anew) has earned 8,018,855 carbon credits. The property is registered w/ American Carbon Registry and uses the Improved Forest Management methodology of the ARB Compliance Protocol for US Forest Projects.
March 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This is the Cumberland Mountains in West Virginia, from which Bluesource LLC (now rebranded as anew) has earned 8,018,855 carbon credits. The property is registered w/ American Carbon Registry and uses the Improved Forest Management methodology of the ARB Compliance Protocol for US Forest Projects.
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.
March 3, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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.
.. this will be home for the next couple of months.
March 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
.. this will be home for the next couple of months.
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.
Just made my second connection in Köln.
March 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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.
Just made my second connection in Köln.
USGS now has publically available 3D elevation point cloud data for large areas of the United States.
February 27, 2025 at 8:19 AM
USGS now has publically available 3D elevation point cloud data for large areas of the United States.
Wonderful talk last night at Goldsmiths with Françoise Vergès in conversation with Ros Gray & Shela Sheikh launching her excellent new book: Making The World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environmnent, and Racial Capitalism.
February 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Wonderful talk last night at Goldsmiths with Françoise Vergès in conversation with Ros Gray & Shela Sheikh launching her excellent new book: Making The World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environmnent, and Racial Capitalism.
Advance warning.
Believe it or not, in June I will be in Dresden speaking at the Annual Conference of the German Society for Design Theory and Research, which this year is titled Planetary Experiments: Environments by Design.
Thanks to Michaela Büsse for the invite.
Believe it or not, in June I will be in Dresden speaking at the Annual Conference of the German Society for Design Theory and Research, which this year is titled Planetary Experiments: Environments by Design.
Thanks to Michaela Büsse for the invite.
February 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Advance warning.
Believe it or not, in June I will be in Dresden speaking at the Annual Conference of the German Society for Design Theory and Research, which this year is titled Planetary Experiments: Environments by Design.
Thanks to Michaela Büsse for the invite.
Believe it or not, in June I will be in Dresden speaking at the Annual Conference of the German Society for Design Theory and Research, which this year is titled Planetary Experiments: Environments by Design.
Thanks to Michaela Büsse for the invite.