MyPocket traces a personal history of expenditures and universal financial forecast. The artist has meticulously retained both physical and digital evidence of his transactions, creating a database visualization and a custom algorithm that predicts the likelihood of each expense recurring.

The Transactions Feed archives all economic activity –making the artist’s finances public– and publishes predictions. The Transactions Graph is a dynamic representation of the temporal and relational dimensions of these transactions. Each physical receipt is rubber‑stamped with its prediction probability, turning it into a “predicted object”, or a “readymade from the future.”

Inspired by a clause in the Bank of America Privacy Policy document, MyPocket made the artist’s bank transactions public through an RSS feed from 2008 to 2010, becoming a two-year living experiment.

Commissioned in 2007 by New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (aka Ether‑Ore) for the Turbulence website, the project was made possible with funding from the Jerome Foundation.
http://turbulence.org/Works/mypocket/

Exhibitions

Data Asymmetry, Winchester, UK, 2016

MediaSpace / Filmwinter, Stuttgart, 2009

Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2009

“New Media: Why”, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, 2009

“After The Net”, Observatori, Valencia, 2008