Stephen Cornford

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...

Lecturer in Art and Media Technology at University of Southampton Searching for an academic job? Explore this Lecturer in Art and Media Technology opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

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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?

even less when it's used in the plural.

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.

Meanwhile my 11yo son’s friends are already actively choosing their pronouns, do the people writing the guidance even talk to children?

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  …

"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  …

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.

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  …

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.

@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--...

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.

not directly related, but I once noticed that the inside of the of the seal peeled off supermarket milk smelt exactly the same as a fresh circuit board 😱

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.

Photo of a fox in an urban garden

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!)

Thanks to Michaela Büsse and Johanna Mehl for all their work organising a brilliant day of presentations, and to Theo Stanley, discussions with whom have informed much of my thinking on forests and carbon.

I discuss the applications of remote sensing to methane emissions monitoring and global biomass mapping, thinking about how these complimentary imaging techniques raise the potential of a regime of carbon governance, specualting how this might be used in climate justice campaigns.

two uperimposed data visulisations on a black background. The first is a square of plantation forest, rendered in 3D and saturated colours from blue at the earth through the rainbow to red at the top of the canopy. On top of this three plumes of gas, rendered in similar colour scheme.

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.

3D visualisation of a square of forest floating on a black background. The colours are a saturated height ramp in heatmap colouration: the ground is deep blue, the tops of the trees bright red.

Satellite view of Cape Town with an emissions visualisation of methane from a landfill site superimposed. It looks like a pixelated bright splat of paint, or a puddle of digital vomit.

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.

Thanks also to Siobhan Angus whose invitation to contribute to a journal stream on rare earths led to me putting this video together. And to Arjan Dijkstra for the amazing access to his Spectral Geology lab, which was central to the realisation of this work.

So I’ve decided to maintain something akin to Open Access to recent work, for as long as server space remains viable. I am thankful to Ben Byrne of Avantwhatever, whose initiative made me consider this option & whose peer tube will accommodate my work on the most sustainable server space available.

I have long been frustrated by the lack of availability of moving image artworks. Of course, in many cases this protects the artist’s capacity to earn money from screenings and exhibitions of their work, in my case where the work is supported by my academic salary, this model seems irrelevant.

Two PC monitors sit side by side in a darkened science laboratory, they show specialist software used fo spectral geology.

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.

A still from a video, a black background with three digitally rendered 3D objects floating in space. Two of them are kaolinite refinery ponds, wide concrete dishes with rotating arms hung in their centre, the third is a lump of mine waste.

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.

Clearly everyone should flood the submissions with proposals for Hannah Arendt statues.

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.