The Machine in the Ghost explores the accelerating presence of technology in our embodied, day-to-day lives. Digital, autonomous agents have the potential to shape our reality, intervening in our decisions and actions while unbound by human rules. The artists in this exhibition investigate the thinning spaces between human innovation and forces once deemed supernatural, examining collective anxieties about invisible actors in an increasingly mediated world. Persistent technologies impact our daily lives, helping us write emails, sort our tasks, and write our exhibition proposals. These, the invited and uninvited collaborators to our everyday lives, are like ghosts, specters that impart their wisdom and their will whether we know it or not. The Machine in the Ghost invites viewers to consider the stories we tell about these emerging technologies: our shifting realities, potential displacement, and our current uneasy cohabitation with these eerie powers that govern or haunt our planet.