Burak Arikan
Burak Arikan (US/T) is an artist and researcher 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. He has a master’s degree in the Physical Language Workshop (PLW) from the MIT Media Laboratory and in Visual Communication Design from Istanbul Bilgi University (2004). His work was presented internationally at institutions including Ars Electronica (Linz), Venice Biennale, Amber Festival (Istanbul), Club Phazon (Tokyo) and independent venues such as Art Interactive (Cambridge), Turbulence (online), Upgrade! International (online) and Hafriyat (Istanbul).
http://burak-arikan.com/

Mypocket (2008)
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.
http://transition.turbulence.org/Works/mypocket/