Friendly Fire

A standalone site for the Friendly Fire project - a cross-hemisphere collaboration between aigardening and Stu Sontier that examines the legacy of nuclear weapons, their testing and politics through a series of physical and digital artworks.
Artists: aigardening; Stu Sontier

acquisitive-eye

A standalone site for the Google Earth-related work of Stu Sontier, acquisitive-eye currently holds four subsections dealing with earthworks, map failures, cloud removal and 3D. An essay covering the social and political aspects is hosted and was presented at the 2024 ADA Symposium - Rising Algorithms: Navigate, Automate, Dream.
Artists: Stu Sontier

Circumstantial Evidence

Featuring five New Zealand visual artists, Circumstantial Evidence addresses the ongoing issues of truth in both digital and analogue photography and analyses its ability to hold forth in an online world.
Artists: Jon Carapiet; Haruhiko Sameshima; John Lyall; Stu Sontier; Jennifer French

and then there were none

In 2021 four Aotearoa visual artists completed a book alongside 3 short stories by Lloyd Jones. 'and then there were none' plays out the contributors' anxieties and doubts about the world they see.
Artists: Harvey Benge, Jon Carapiet, Lloyd Jones, Haru Sameshima, Stu Sontier

collapse into air

Stu Sontier works with digital materials, and here reuses waste inkjet inks and waste inkjet photo paper. collapse-into-air is a commentary on overconsumption and obsolescence, particularly related to digital and electronic technologies.
Artists: Stu Sontier

legacy

In this project Jon Carapiet uses commercial AI imge generation to view currently living political figures. legacy exists in this online format as well as in physical format as a book and previously as an exhibition at Toi-tu gallery, Tamaki Makaurau.
Artists: Jon Carapiet