AHA X WD: Stephen Cornford and Annie Goh
Join us for this event, which forms part of a series of online talks organised in collaboration with the Archaeology–Heritage–Art Research Network and West Dean College.
AHA X WD: Stephen Cornford and Annie Goh
13 May 2026, 17:00 – 18:30
Join us for the first of a series of online talks organised by the Archaeology–Heritage–Art Research Network (AHA) and West Dean College
The speakers
Stephen Cornford
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
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.
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.
AHA connects artists, archaeologists, and heritage practitioners to explore how material culture shapes the contemporary world. We approach these fields not as seamlessly unified disciplines, but as sites of productive friction - where different epistemologies, methods, and publics meet. What happens when artistic research, archaeological method, and heritage practice are placed in sustained dialogue? How is evidence assembled, archives activated, and landscapes and infrastructures reimagined as shared terrains of inquiry?
West Dean College has Schools of Art, Design and Conservation, supporting unique opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration and offers a distinctive context for this exchange. Its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes emphasise place-based research and sustained engagement with making, fostering a dynamic relationship between contemporary art and craft.
Further information
Cost
Free