This spring, we’re pleased to share a collaborative programme between the Archaeology–Heritage–Art Research Network and West Dean College. This series of online talks brings together artists, academics, and writers whose work engages with, and at times subverts, the practices, politics, and theories of archaeology, critical heritage studies, contemporary art, and craft.

Our first event welcomes artists and researchers Stephen Cornford and Annie Goh.

Wednesday 13 May, 17:00 – 18:30

Stephen Cornford is a media artist whose work investigates the relationships between media systems and planetary systems. Cornford's films, drawings and essays explore the role of technical images in earth science, extractive industry and climate action. His practice often appropriates scientific data, processes and softwares, repurposing them as a cinematic medium that aims to question its own authority. Stephen is Senior Lecturer at Winchester School of Art and co-founder of the Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics research group. His international exhibitions include: ZKM (Karlsruhe), ICC (Tokyo), HeK (Basel), Finnish Museum of Photography (Helsinki), and Coventry Biennial. 

Dr Annie Goh is an artist and researcher. Her work, in its numerous forms from sound installation, composition and computer music to writing, performance and social practice, takes a critical approach to contemporary debates in the fields of digital technologies, media arts, generative and computational processes and communication studies, with a particular focus on sound, intersectional feminism, decolonial theory and the politics of knowledge production. She is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in BA (Hons) Sound Arts at LCC, University of Arts London and where she is also a member of Creative Research In Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP). ‘Sonic Cyberfeminisms’ (Goldsmiths Press) co-authored with Dr Marie Thompson will be published in 2027, and ‘Echoes of Elsewhere (Bloomsbury Academic) by Goh is due for 2028.

Register for the zoom link here