Ghosts in the Machine

photographs by Mark Crummett

An exploration of the macro world in five parts

It's a cliché to say that a circuit board looks like a city. Yet they both have an architectural feel to them.
If you get down close and squint, with the right kind of eyes, you can almost see the people walking the streets, gazing up at towering heat sinks and power supplies, dodging chips and resistors on their way to work...

The "Ghosts in the Machine" are just folks, dwarfed by the technology that pervades their lives. Engaged in enigmatic activities in an out-of-scale, technological landscape, workers work on industrial-scale electronic components; shoppers, walkers, joggers, business people, mothers and kids, wonder through an out-sized industrial/technological landscape, apparently at ease with the visual non sequitur that is their environment. They become part of the landscape of technology, and technology becomes their landscape.

With many of these images, I'm continuing my exploration of the consiousness, the "spirituality," of technology and Man's relationship with it. With these photos, I am returning to my roots as a photographer, but exploiting the capabilities of digital manipulation.

Mark Crummett
Cary, NC
October 2007


Life in Circuit City	Dreams & Nightmares	These Things Don't Build Themselves, You Know	Deus Electronica	Mr. Barnes's Adventures

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