After almost a half-century long history of existence of plastic cards
with a magnet stripe, they have become a real symbol of automation and
encryption of money resources and financial flows. At the same time,
cards also became the object of phobias and fetishes of their
owners,transforming into a sensitive body part responsible for welfare
encrypted on a little magnet stripe and protected with a 4-digit
numeric passcode.
'Financial Risks' installation is a project designed to present an
ironical viewpoint on encoded wallets as a data input interface which
invites to overcome fear of impbossility to control spread of
confidential information for the sake of curiosity of interaction with
an object of art. The most daring users after entering the pin code
will receive an artefact printout from a little cash register printer
with the screenshot of the result of their play with the instrument.
The piece consists of 6 bank card readers,a hardware system of sound
and video synthesis, a keyboard for pin code entering, a 2-channel
sound system and a cash register printer configured to print images. Up
to 6 cards simultaneously may be used for playing.