Two cassettes just arrived from ato.archives in Japan, fantastic work by Tomonao Koshikawa and Masahiro Sugaya.
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Attended a webinar this afternoon led by GHGSat who produce methane emissions visualisations like this.
The unspoken importance of aesthetics to their business model was palpable. Although this data is all available as .csv files quantifying the kg/hour measurements of emissions, it is the map overlays that are the focus of their customer products.
These data heavy interactive web interfaces have become the standard expected, regardless of the associated carbon costs of rendering them.
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Using professional kit unsurprisingly makes a massive difference to the ease of this workflow. I have a working model in #Blender ready the next day.
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A quick test 3D scan of some logs behind the studios at work. Learning how to use the departmental scanner for an upcoming residency in Berlin #ForestCarbon
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Just deleted Instagram from my phone just to see how much time I get back in my life and whether something positive might come of that time.
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The text from my talk yesterday at Symposium of the Whole is up on the blog at the link below. Given the context, I tried in some way to cover everything, including: spectroscopy, contamination, radiation, evolution, toxicity, and antidisciplinary practice.
https://stephencornford.net/blog/2025/02/02/antidisciplinary-contaminations-2/
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Some of your opinions are now illegal in the US.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-cancel-student-visas-all-hamas-sympathizers-white-house-2025-01-29/
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With commentary on AI redundancies like a rash on my timeline, I’m reminded of Kate Raworth’s proposal that if we simply taxed resource use rather than taxing labour, corporations and employers would be incentivised to change: employ more people and use less resources.
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Extraordinary cassette / digital release from overlooked ambient pioneer Masahiro Sugaya.
Short field recordings interleaved with instrumental vignettes. Highly recommended.
https://atoarchives.bandcamp.com/album/overflowing-signs
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This time next weekend I’ll be winging my way to Oxford for the first time in ages to speak at this symposium, organised by my good friend Patrick Farmer.
I’ll be talking about antidisciplinarity, contamination and spectroscopy, which is a bit of a departure for me, but feels aptly holistic.
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Just came across a pdf of Cyril Ponamperumma's The Origin of Life in The Universe while looking for an image of this lab setup of his.
Even just breifly skimming it, the essay looks wonderful, I just happened upon:
"Today, we are gradually learning to accept the Oparin-Haldane hypothesis that life is only a special and complicated property of matter and that basically there may be no difference between a living organism and lifeless matter."
pdf here: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19650011877/downloads/19650011877.pdf
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In addition to the obvious emissions from the oil and mining industries, the other major source appears to be landfills and waste dumps.
This is a landfill site in Cape Town. In the coming carbon governance regime, it'll be easy to hold oil companies and mining corporations accountable for their emissions, but who is accountable for the emissions from waste? Pointing the finger at municipal waste mangement is myopic when the problem is a systemic one of overproduction and disposable culture.
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Insanely rare Peter Van Riper cassette / CDr Acoustic Metal Music, played on aluminium baseball bats is available on @internetarchive
https://archive.org/details/peter-van-riper-acoustic-metal-music
[#]SoundArt
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Just managed to get access to GHGSat's methane emissions monitoring data - enabling visualisations like this.
The high resolution observations seem to be a bit patchy in their global coverage at the moment, but I think that's because clients have to request observations of specific sites. Also incredibly slow to load data, but nevertheless interesting and useful.
[#]SpectralGovernance #PlanetaryCarbon
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I have chosen today to read the Literature Review by one of my PhD students who is working on an autoethnography of his own Whiteness.
In the context of today, the text reads like a historicising of how we ended up where we find ourselves.
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Good post day today!
This new book by Françoise Verges published by Goldsmiths Press just arrived. Can’t wait to get stuck into this one.
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Published today, the 2nd issue of the @tekhne_collab journal edited by Yann Leguay & Marie Lechner, who asked me to write a short article on audio technologies and extractivism which evolved into a meditation on planetary and media-technical magnetisms.
Thanks to Yann and Marie for putting together such an engaging issue and inviting me to be part of it!
https://tekhne.website/journal/issue-2/bluetooth-extractions-geomagnetism-metallurgy.html
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Tentatively purchasing occasional cassettes again for the first time in a decade, starting with this recent and super-limited gem by Rie Nakajima and David Toop.
Beautifully put together minimalist compositions from kinetic sculptural and percussive elements. Also available on bandcamp: https://rienakajima.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-voil
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A couple of recent drawings, experimenting with adopting the characteristics of data visualisations used in mineral prospecting surveys and mine planning documents.
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Spent this morning screenprinting the last layer on the most recent series of Cancelled Landscapes.
Each one contains a paragraph from the European Union’s #CriticalRawMaterials Act below a geodata visualisation from an EU funded Lithium prospecting project. All printed on top of maps of Northern Norway from the UK directorate of Military Survey.
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