By researching our relationship to smartphones, I realized that our codependency results in using them as an extension or as a replacement for our cognitive processes. Our mental tasks like remembering numbers or orientation skills transferred to the internal memory of the phone, which blurred the boundaries between the “self” and “other”.

With the use of Google maps our phones completely changed how we orientate ourselves in our environment to the extent that Google knew my location better than I did, but what does that mean for my “mental“ privacy? My location history data, which can be sold to third-party companies, showed not just the locations I visited, but also how often, and for how long. Therefore, I used the data to make a heatmap and visualize my activity in Den Haag. Then I materialized the map into a personal landscape as a conversation object, which would depict data as something that emerges outside of the digital world.