MYPOCKET is my brother Burak Arikan’s new project. MYPOCKET discloses Burak’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.
As everybody knows, there’s no escape from being tracked by banks, online shopping sites, telephone companies and the others. I saw Burak’s art work as a reflection of today’s Big Brother society. Also, for advertising people, MYPOCKET is a new source beside customer researches and observations. In addition, it’s more valuable than customer researches because, it’s not based on the responses, it’s based on the real facts daily happened.
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