'Ghosts in the Machine' explores the generative possibilities of video feedback. Video feedback is capable of a wealth of complex imagery all of which is created by pointing a DV camera at its own output on a TV screen. The images formed within this feedback loop; fantastic plant structures, tree forms, bacteria, fractal snowflakes, mimic biological life. They are not imposed from the outside in any way and are thus ghosts within the machine.

Constructed of 165 individual layers of video, Ghosts charts a journey of artificial evolution. The basic structures and forms are generated from initially random processes via video feedback. These are then layered to construct a slowly evolving composite form that increases in morphological complexity, offering insights into the intricacy lurking within nature's processes.