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Stephen Cornford is a media artist and writer whose research investigates the relationships between technologies, landscapes, and media systems within planetary systems. His work critically questions the environmental impacts of consumer electronics and scientific sensing practices, challenging the viability of addressing ecological collapse through extractive economic logics. He is the Programme Lead for the MA Fine Art and a founding co-director of the Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics research group. His solo exhibitions have taken place in Tokyo, Berlin, Brighton, Bergen, Ljubljana, and London, and he has participated in group exhibitions at notable venues such as ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, ICC in Tokyo, Haus der elektronischen Kunst in Basel, Sigma Foundation in Venice, and the Finnish Museum of Photography. His current research focuses on the unsustainability of digital technologies and scientific cultures in knowledge production, with a practice that refers to 'spectral geotechnics', viewing technological and geological systems as mutually interdependent, produced through immersion and manipulation of the electromagnetic spectrum. His research is conducted in collaboration with scientific researchers, including his work with the Horizon EU project GREENPEG and his role as an Earth Art Fellow at Bristol University.