Creative and research projects

Alongside our client work we produce our own creative projects and research initiatives that explore issues and advance our thinking around technology, culture, the environment and the material world. These range from the serious to the frivolous, including:

 

A collection of our writing on issues related to AI
This compendium brings together essays and articles we’ve written over the past few years that may be relevant to anyone grappling with generative AI and how these tools might affect our lives now and in the future. We produced this document as a contribution to the discourse around generative AI, in order to help situate the current conversation in a broader set of concerns.

 

A book about digital technology, maintenance and ethics
We edited the new book More Zeros and Ones: Digital technology, maintenance and ethics in Aotearoa New Zealand, published in 2022 by Bridget Williams Books. More Zeros and Ones argues that our digital world can be made more inclusive and sustainable, and features chapters by long-time activists, respected academics, and up-and-coming voices in the tech space.

 

Untitled Presentation: running slide deck 2018 - present
Untitled Presentation is our long-running collaborative online slide deck, where we collect and share thoughts and ideas each week. It is an experiment in thinking in public and working creatively with corporate software (Google Slides). We have used our slides methodology in lectures, presentations, and collaborative making exercises in the US and New Zealand.

 

Antistatic Print Object 2019 - present
At the end of each year we design and print a paper-based object and send it in the mail to anyone that requests it. Print Object is a gift to our friends, colleagues, and internet strangers around the world. It functions as something of an annual report and something of a rebellion — an attempt to maintain an analog practice and remember other networks of distribution.

 

Edit for Equity
We created Edit for Equity, an event series and set of open-source resources, to help improve the coverage of women and non-binary New Zealanders on Wikipedia and grow the diversity of Wikipedia editors. Over the course of five edit-a-thons in 2019, more than 23 new Wikipedia pages were created and 130 existing Wikipedia pages were improved.