Wesley Goatley - Critical Artist + Researcher

Installation view of the work, showing 6 tonnes of soil in a room, with 200 buried smartphones and smart speakers

An installation for 200 discarded ‘smart’ devices and the many possible futures of our relationship to AI and the world.

A dicarded pile of electronics beneath an open sky..

A collection of audio fiction about futures where we abandon, ignore, forbid, or forget AI altogether.

An image of an Amazon Echo being disassembled on a workbench.

A fiction film/performance about the ecological impact of ‘smart’ technologies and AI, and the deep myths, fears, and hopes of humanity that they represent.

Image shows the performance of Chthonia, a render of an iPhone surround by swirling visuals.

An audio-visual performance between Alexa and Siri, scored by collapsing synthetic voices.

Detail view of the Echo REIGN device, a green military smart speaker

What might the hidden products of the military and tech industry collaborations look like?

An image of a desk, with a screen, keyboard, and office ephemera, with a smartphone and Amazon Echo on it.

What are the secret histories behind Alexa and Siri, the 'friendly' AI voice assistants?

Installation view of the piece, a green painting mounted on the wall with a frame surrounding it and a computer screen on a pulley syste moving across it.

How can machine learning gives us new ways to look at art, and the world?

Installation view of the piece, an Amazon Echo suspend in the middle of the room, surrounded by a ring of microphones.

An installation exposing hidden forms of AI listening, and what voice assistant cannot answer.

A transparent acrylic cube with electronic components inside, glowing.

What do our phones say behind our backs?

Newly Forgotten Technologies

Stories From AI Free Futures

Newly Forgotten Technologies: Five Echoes

Chthonia

Echo REIGN

Chthonic Rites

Charismatic Megapigment

The Dark Age of Connectionism

The Listener