MYPOCKET

From Rhizome Artbase
2008
Description

MYPOCKET is custom software that predicts what will I buy next by analyzing more than three years of my spending history, which is archived on a website and updated daily. These predictions sometimes determine my future choices, creating a system in which both the software and myself adapt to one another.

Rhizome staff
2021

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.

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2008
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