Saturday January 12th was the birthday of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. On this day, transmediale participant Johannes P Osterhoff started his next online performance work, called "Dear Jeff Bezos". For this performance Osterhoff has modified his Kindle to, whenever he saves a bookmark, it is also emailed directly to CEO Jeff Bezos, and published publicly at http://bezos.cc as a comment on Amazon's logging of user data via their “Whispersync” technology.

Osterhoff: "Not so long ago it was very simple to read a book in private. With the Kindle and Whispersync it is impossible. I am required to surrender my privacy during reading on my Kindle. So sending e-mails about my reading activity directly to the CEO of Amazon was just a next logical step."

"Companies like Amazon are interested in exclusive ownership of data, because with this exclusivity comes its value. As a user of such services, one loses not only control but also authorship of the data one generated. To make the data I generate public, is to devalue it. This is why I prefer to share data in an open format. I have done so with my two previous performances: the one year of public Google search, and also with iPhone live."

A special one-week edition of the Google performance was shown at transmediale 2012 and iPhone live was shown at the transmediale reSource 002 event. At his workshop "Mobile Device Forensics for Artists" at this year's transmediale, Osterhoff explains how to misuse your gadgets. To turn your Kindle into a spam bot is only one possible application...