“Ghosts in the Machine” captures the deterioration of a 2009 MacBook Pro and its struggle against its inevitable obsolescence. The spontaneous digital spectrum expressions that make up this work began randomly appearing on the laptop’s monitor during its final functioning days, revealing the colorful disruption, dissolution and ultimate death of a digital ecosystem.

As such, the artwork is considered “born digital” in that its images were in fact created by the computer. These glitchy, ghost-like apparitions were then captured by the artist and remixed, with an accompanying original score, into this one-of-a-kind digital artwork.

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Jessica Bushey, PhD is a multidisciplinary artist whose works explore the formation of identity and memory through virtual communications. She is a recipient of awards from the prestigious Canada Council for the Arts and the Social Sciences Humanities Research Council. Her ongoing research into preserving digital archives and artificial intelligence has inspired her most recent artwork, “Ghosts in the Machine”.