Josh Begley (American, b. 1984) is a data artist and web developer based in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and New York University. Appropriating publicly available satellite imagery, Begley’s work takes advantage of application programming interfaces, or APIs, to build collections of machine-generated images about quotidian life.

In 2012, Begley created Drones+, an iPhone app designed to send users a notice every time a drone strike is reported in the news. Now known as Metadata+, it was rejected from the App Store five times due to “excessively objectionable or crude content”, before being accepted by Apple in 2014.

Begley’s work has appeared in New York Magazine, The New York Times, NPR, Wired, and at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. He currently works at The Intercept and is represented by Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco.