Stephen Cornford

@stephen-cornford.bsky.social

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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

Photo of a fox in an urban garden
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.
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.
Two PC monitors sit side by side in a darkened science laboratory, they show specialist software used fo spectral geology.
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.
Poster advertising the event taped up on a graffitied notice board. A list of artist names in bold design of black/ white / yellow.
Tripod head with timelapse motor, Sony DSLR, and GoPro style drone camera all stacked vertically on top of one another
A vertical shot of a dry, brown forest. In the centre out of focus is a timelapse motor: a black plastic box, with a turntable on top. On top of this a rectangular mirror which reflects the split trunk of a dead oak tree.
Restaurant interior: A round table in front of two buffet servers stands with a chandelier hanging above
A LiDAR Scanner standing in a forest landscape.
scan of a magazine page
Colour photograoh of forestry taking place in Laos in 1975. In the foreground the stump of a large tree. Indigenous workers stand around. A white man in a sunhat with a camera around his neck is at the centre of the photo.
A camera on a tripod in a woodland, pointing at a large Tesla factory on the other side of the autobahn.
satellite image of a plume of wildfire smoke.
Bough of a dead oak curving up of the forest floor, which is covered in brown leaves. Among it all a DSLR camera on a low tripod with an aluminium pole projecting backwards from the tripod.
3D point cloud visualisation of a forested valley. The land is rendered in a saturated deep pink, the foliage in blue and green. A rectangle of this landscape is seen against a black background.
3D point cloud of a square area of the Sierra Nevada Forest in false colours against a black background
Interior of a large studio space with various desks and assorted other furniture.
Partial view of Köln cathedral, obscured by the gridded glass railway station roof, train tracks in the foreground.
point cloud data visualisation of a partially forested, moderately mountainous landcsape. Foliage in rusty shades of orange, bedrock in cool cyan-green, against a black background.
Three women sat at a round table at the front of a lecture theatre with a projection of a book cover behind them.
Poster for the symposium, featuring a graphic monochrome image reminiscent of mid 20th century urban design such as Archigram. A hill with a power station atop, is cut away to reveal a modular architectural structure. The right hand side has an imaginary pump/fume capture arrangement. A tiled wall, toilet roll holder and aeroplane also feature.
Log with brown round capped mushrooms growing out of it.
Screenshot from Congress.gov showing a bill “to authorise the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and rename it Red, White and Blueland
Map showing a heatmap style visualisation of geological data in primarily blue green yellow and purple, dotted with cyan and magneta circles. Beneath which blank white space and spare map-like markings.
a simplified geological diagram with deposits in darkening shades of blue and geometric outlines labelled Measured, Indicated and Inferred. There is a dense pattern of black dots in the centre of the measured space which become more spare in the other two. Annotated with yellow arrows.
A mine planning diagram showing a schedule of 18 digs creating a single sprawling open-pit. Very low resolution, with grey contour lines outside the pit, which blend into highly saturated bench-marking lines inside the pit, primarily in purple, with different digs colour coded in shades of violet, indigo, blue with one red, yellow, green.
A cassette tape of Indonesian Degung (gong ensemble) music opened up in pieces on a desk ready to be mended.
Point cloud viewed as if standing in a forest, trees and foliage in saturated pinks and dark blues predominate.
Satellite view of a port in Algeria. The water edge is lined with oil and gas processing facilities. Four plumes of methane, visualised in a heatmap blue-green-yellow style drift across the image.
3D scan of four logs seen on the gridded plane of the software. Two visualisations are laid on top of each other, a textured 3D model and a point cloud in acid green.
A 3D visualisation of four logs lying in a bunch of brambles. There are lots of holes and gaps where data was not registered.
A heavily photocopied image of one of Cyril Ponnamperuma's laboratory experiments.
Poster with abstract design in blue and text reading Symposium of the Whole, with Daniela Cascella, Jessa Carta, Stephen Cornford, Patrick Farmer, Kelly Krumrie, Nisha Ramayya.
Satellite view over a coastal city surrounded by agricultural land. On top of which a heatmap style visulisation in blue, green and yellow, fanning out in all directions like an enormous splash.
Satellite view over a mine, with heatmap style visualisation in blue/green/yellow showing two plumes of methane emissions from the site.
Screenshot of a search for #democracy on instagram, which is currently hiding this “sensitive content”.
Front cover of book titled: Making The World Clean: wasted lives, wasted environment and racial capitalism. Orange cover with circular designs and black text
Screenshot of the essay title on a phone sccreen. materia prima written in glitchy text on neon green, with the title "Bluetooth Extractions: Geomagnetism & Metallurgy" above a satellite photo of the Bayan Obo rare earth mine in Mongolia.
an A4 drawing on Polar graph paper. In the centre a heatmap-style colour patterm on top of which are glued hole-punched circles of paper and a rectangle of clean white paper: like annotations without text.
Satellite image of central Europe rendered in black and blue, with a few fragments of white.
Screenshot of the gov.uk website page announcing Open Consultation in Copyright and Artificial Intelligence.
Photo of a toy Santa strung in the gutter of a single storey garage building. Photo has the text He died above our bins handwritten on top.
Text reading: “But why should we have to be useful and for what reason? Who divided the world into useless and useful, and by what right? … Whose intellect can have had the audacity to judge who is better, and who worse? A large tree, crooked and full of holes, survives for centuries without being cut down, because nothing could possibly be made out of it. … Everyone knows the profit to be reaped from the useful, but nobody knows the benefit to be gained from the useless.”
data visualisation of lidar data from a forest. trees rendered in saturated point clouds of colour against a black background.
Oak panelled door with the name Ondaatje sign written in gold, underneath you can see marks of the name it has replaced.
A mossy tree trunk lies horizontally, a large crack in the centre exposes pale wood. 2 large bracket fungi and a cluster of smaller fungi are growing around the crack.
Screenshot of the article header. Title reads Bluetooth Extractions: Geomagnetism & Metallurgy, beneath which a satellite image of the Bayan Obo rare earth mine in Mongolia.
Geological map of Colorado with a google review of Energy Fuels (a uranium mining company) on top. The review reads: “if the world leader could be achieved by having a green forest and clean nature, Brazil would be a superpower. I trust Energy Fuels .. it already shows the necessary sensitivity”
Sheet of ensemble music stave with One Yugoslav stamp in each part.
Projection screen showing the graphic design of the symposium: a blue river flowing out of various green splashes and gridded patterns.
Black padded Case Logic bag with zips designed for a portable CD player.