Wesley Goatley - Critical Artist + Researcher

An image of The Hope, a gray device with a square base and a rectangular screen attached.

An image of the Horizon, a cluttered grey desk with black, hacked electronic devices surrounding a suspended Amazon Kindle.

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

A discarded pile of electronics beneath an open sky.

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

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

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

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

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

A transparent acrylic cube with electronic components inside, glowing.

Wesley Goatley is a critical artist and researcher. His work interrogates the relations between the tech industry, the climate crisis, and social change.

He works in spatial installations, interactive works, low-carbon computing, and critical AI practices.

His work is exhibited internationally, including the V&A Museum London, the Nam June Paik Art Center in Seoul, Berghain in Berlin, and Eyebeam in New York.

His research has been published by MIT Press, Bloomsbury, and other academic publishers. His work has been featured in The Guardian, Fast Company, the BBC World Service and more.

The Hope

The Horizon

The Harbinger

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