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

Newly Forgotten Technologies

2024

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

A dicarded pile of electronics beneath an open sky..

Stories From AI Free Futures

2025

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.

Newly Forgotten Technologies: Five Echoes

2022

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.

Chthonia

2020

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

Echo REIGN

2018

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.

Chthonic Rites

2019

An installation for a 'smart' desk and the synthetic voices that haunt it.

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.

Charismatic Megapigment

2019

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.

The Dark Age of Connectionism

2017

A critical sound art installation exposing the hidden mechanisms of AI listening, and what voice assistants cannot answer.

A transparent acrylic cube with electronic components inside, glowing.

The Listener

2015

An installation demonstrating the hidden ways that smartphones bleed our personal data wherever we go.