Mypocket
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MYPOCKET is a living physical/digital process that predicts what his initiator, Burak Arikan, will buy next. It explores and reveals essential patterns in the daily transactions of my bank account and discloses my personal financial records to the world. Archived on the site, and updated daily, more than three years of my spending history is analyzed by the custom software to predict future spending everyday; these predictions sometimes determine my future choices, creating a system in which both the software and myself adapt to one another. Influenced by today's techno-cultural milieu, MYPOCKET presents a hybrid interface to this living physical/digital process.
It renders its results from various input sources - the predicted objects - into the transaction graph - with an eventual output of a transaction feed stream.
Predicted Objects
The receipts of the predicted transactions become predicted objects. After a predicted transaction happens, its receipt is marked with a green stamp, which shows the probability of the prediction. Each marked receipt is a unique object, not only because it contains unique transaction information, but also its existence was known. A predicted object is the physical evidence of a future event, it is only produced if the event happens. Predicted objects are the products of deliberate analysis and living, they are the readymades found in the future.
Transactions Graph
Transactions Graph is the network model created to generate list of predictions about future spending. It shows the unprocessed model of dynamic relationships between transaction items and their effects changing overtime. Its topology intensifies or de-inensifies depending on the quality and force of the relations. Each node represents a transaction and connected to each other through categories and dates. Thickness of connecting lines shows the total spending amount of the paired transactions. At a given timeframe, the last day's purchases and the two weeks of past spending are shown.
MYPOCKET is a 2007 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with funding from the Jerome Foundation.
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