The boundaries between digital and human blur when it comes to intimacy. Whether the amount of embarrassing photos you keep wishing no one will ever see, the hours you spend texting or facetiming, or all the health data you keep trucking one is evident - phones play a role in our most intimate moments. Their non-human nature inspires our trust allowing for complete transparency. By never leaving our side they strive to become our most intimate partners.

With the goal of exposing the ongoing shift in our understanding and practicing of digital intimacy; as well as the inspiration drawn from Hito Steyerl I decided to create a motion piece displaying the intimacy I have developed with my own phone. By gathering all unsorted data such as text messages, web searches, and photos, I aimed at proving that “It is not that the phone is used to monitor and accumulate details of your personal life since the phone itself is where the personal is increasingly generated.” (Colmina,Wigley)

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