Burak Arikan
Project date: January 2008
submitted 2009-01-13 17:37:33
Call: After the Net
Description:
MYPOCKET discloses the artist's personal financial records to the world by exploring and revealing essential patterns in the daily transactions of his bank account. These are the records that we usually keep secret, whereas financial institutions intensively analyze them to score our credibility. Archived on the site, the artist's two years of spending history is analyzed by the custom software to predict future spending; these predictions sometimes determine his future choices, creating a system in which both the software and the artist adapt to one another. Influenced by today's techno-cultural milieu, MYPOCKET presents a hybrid interface to a living physical/digital process."
Format: live networked software
Genre: software art
URL: transition.turbulence.org/Works/mypocket/
Artist Bio:
Burak Arikan is an artist and researcher who is based in New York and Istanbul. He focuses on creating networked systems that evolve with the interactions of people and machines. His work confronts issues ranging from cultural sustainability to finance to politics and labor in networked environments. Arikan shows the instances of his systems online and onsite through diverse media including prints, animation, software, electronics, and physical materials.