Stephen Cornford

blog
works
discs
texts
info

 Petrified Media   
 

 

 

 

  

 

 

2023
-------------------------------------------------------
Spectral Index

Petrified Media

2022
-------------------------------------------------------
Dark Current Collages
Horizon of Fulfillment

2021
-------------------------------------------------------
To Photograph A Rock
Pixel Mining

2019
-------------------------------------------------------
RGB [Retinally Governed Behaviours]

2018
-------------------------------------------------------
Saturation Trails - Acid
- Laser
- X-Ray
Destruction of an Image Sensor

2016
------------------------------------------------------
Constant Linear Velocity
Augenmusik
Methodology for a Synaesthetic Screen

2015
------------------------------------------------------
Migration
Digital Audio Film

2013
------------------------------------------------------
Solipsism Cinema
Archipelago

2012
------------------------------------------------------
Recorded (on) Delivery
Five Introverted Machines

2011
------------------------------------------------------
Binatone Galaxy

2010
------------------------------------------------------
In Search of a Concrete Music

2009
------------------------------------------------------
Works for Turntable

2008
------------------------------------------------------
Three Piece
Air Guitar
Extended Piano

2007
-----------------------------------------------------
Trespassing The Olympic Site
For Violin, Viola & Tape



 

 

 

AVAILABLE HERE

Drawing on the contemporary debate around the anthropocene, Petrified Media speculates on the deep future of electronic waste as it sediments into Earth’s stratigraphic record. An iPhone 5 was sliced into cross-sections, each of which was melted at temperatures between 1000ºC and 1500ºC in a geological furnace. These molten fragments were then processed, photographed and analysed using the instruments and experimental processes of petrology. 

By applying the techniques of geology to a hypothetical technofossil, the work seeks to materialise a now inevitable scenario in which discarded technologies become part of the planet’s geology, their high concentrations of scarce metals combining to form new minerals that will evidence today’s technological civilisation long after its demise. 

With essays by Siobhan Angus, Jan Zalasiewicz & Stephen Cornford.
Published by The Eriskay Connection.