In the Digital Age, our corporeal experiences are increasingly translated into information. Rather than simply losing our bodies, we are being selectively paraphrased as data. The body becomes a data resource through smart watches, health-monitoring applications, habit trackers and other systems designed to measure, classify and optimise bodily activity. Beyond the body itself, identities, social relations, sexuality, consumption and other aspects of lived experience are increasingly rendered as data. This transformation produces an unsettling question: what is filtered out when lived experience becomes information?

We live in strange places.

We live in rooms, houses, streets and cities. We sit at tables, walk through doors, pass one another on pavements and decide, often without thinking, how close is too close. But we also live on maps, in message histories, and search results, photographs, location records and recommendation systems. Our watches count our steps. Our phones remember where we have been. Platforms notice what we look at, who we speak to and how long we stay.

We are dwelling on Google Earth and in the Cloud.

The body has not disappeared in this condition. But something curious happens to it. A walk becomes a route. A heartbeat becomes a number. A friendship becomes a sequence of messages. A presence becomes a green dot. A person entering a room can become +1, leaving it becomes -1.

I began Personal Bubble by wondering what happens in this change.