Some upcoming winter talks in Berlin, Cambridge, and Amsterdam this month:

much look forward to speaking about "regenerative data cultures" at "Human Machine: Soil, Sound, Memory" symposium at Akademie der Künste in Berlin 🪱🌱🍂🔊✨ jonathangray.org/2025/11/07/r... with @wesleygoatley.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social & many more! 🍵💜

This weekend my next work opens in Luxembourg: PLACE ECHOES, five sound sculptures made from 50 discarded smart speakers and half a tonne of soil. Each sculpture features voices from the speakers reading short eco-socio-technical fiction about near futures with and without this consumer trash.

My new installation A Harbinger, A Horizon, and A Hope: Three Heralds of Possible AI Futures is now open at Inspace Gallery in Edinburgh for the Edinburgh Festival.

It's three interactive devices each showing a glimpse at a different future for individuals and communities and their relation to AI.

This is The Harbinger, a new installation posting the question: what if Palantir continued and deepened their relationship with the NHS, and made their technology the center of a new era of 'automated care'? It's an 'AI GPs Assistant', deployed to every GP surgery in the UK.

This is The Harbinger, a new installation posting the question: what if Palantir continued and deepened their relationship with the NHS, and made their technology the center of a new era of 'automated care'? It's an 'AI GPs Assistant', deployed to every GP surgery in the UK.

I've been talking more in education contexts about critical and ethical approaches to both teaching AI and in using those tools in teaching. You can see my most recent talk from the Digital Learning and the Environment conference in London here: ual.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

My talk last night at the Edinburgh Futures Institute for the Doing AI Differently salon was about 'Doing AI Art Differently' , specifically why we should want to counter the normative practices that mislead audiences into believing techno-capitalism's favourite myth of machine intelligence.

My latest substack is called I Don't Want OpenAI to Support The Arts, I Want Them To Stay The Fuck Away From It', which was a mini essay I wrote to support a group of artists who rejected OpenAI's offer of free access to the Sora tool in exchange for endorsements. Link to the full post is in my bio.

Doing some new work on where art practice can meaningfully probe into hidden systems, thinking back to Echo REIGN, a project I made in 2018 proposing what Amazon's work in making voice assistants for the US military might look like (shown at Glassroom San Francisco for Tactical Tech)

In the studio today, developing a new series of works memorialising the de-valued and discarded artifacts of extractive capitalism.

A recent substack I wrote on how Ars Electronica's recent AI prize winner looks very much like a sponsored OpenAI plant, and how arts orgs cannot ethically promote these tools: wesleygoatley.substack.com/p/9-there-is...

Newly Forgotten Technologies: Stories From AI-Free Futures is now on Spotify - you can listen to the full collection of audio speculative fiction about how we abandon, ban, or forget AI here: open.spotify.com/album/2qKcmZ...

My recent talk 'DEMAND NO AUTOMATION', about the trends in AI art and design that reinforce the worst narratives of AI techno-capitalism and how we can make art that rejects these poisonous myths, can be watched in full here:

www.youtube.com/live/NHLXmEY...

My new album/audiobook has just been released, titled Newly Forgotten Technologies: Stories From AI-Free Futures. It's a collection of audio fiction about different near-futures where we might abandon, ban, ignore or forget AI, and the worlds this might make possible.

New substack post:
#4: Against Automation
Discussing the myth of automation in image generation, and what a critical use of these tools can be that rejects automation entirely.
As with all my substack posts, it includes a speculative sonic fiction on AI culture. http://wesleygoatley.substack.com