Finite States is a series of works that examines the interplay between spectacle and secrecy in the financial market system and its effect on our belief in the prospect of open spaces of exchange. Tracking the financialization of the economy, the rise of autonomous technologies, the transformation of trading exchanges, and the influence of public relations, the works chart the migration of information, decision-making, and accumulated wealth from the material world to the realm of the non-visible.

Finite States (Automatons) is an installation of PR images of the daily bell-ringing on the balcony of the New York Stock Exchange. This longstanding but increasingly carnivalesque ritual and the widely circulated visual meme that it generates belie the secretive trading infrastructure and the hidden flows of capital that characterize the current financial economy. In this light, the ceaseless production of this image takes on a mechanical and recursive quality, a self-replicating impulse that becomes pathological, decadent, and dehumanized.