“Identity theft” is one of the most popular memes of the day. It is a sad phrase; one that strips our cultural understanding of identity down to a handful of information. Our individual identities are reduced to a couple of facts: name, date of birth, ethnicity, address, phone number, social security number, credit history and email address. This information is meant to locate us literally and statistically; it is not meant to “know us” personally.

The purpose of Self-Disclosed is to help us understand our relationship with this so-called “personal” information. Today this “personal” information is a medium of exchanged used to gain access to data, email, information, coupons, friends/chat online, etc. Because we don’t think of this information as currency, we don’t keep systematic records of where/who we have “paid.” Self-Disclosed provides a visual platform to track and register these transactions (think of it as analagous to a checking account register, but much more graphic).

Self-Disclosed 2.0 is a software program designed with Javascript, PHP, mySQL, HTML, CSS and Processing.

Self Disclosed 1.0. Mounted Archival Print. 2009. 24" x 36".

Self-Disclosed 1.0. Detail.

Self-Disclosed 1.0 is a pre-cursor to the Self-Disclosed 2.0 software. This archival print represents my own information flow over a a two year period.