My iPhone Is  My Mother
Students
Valeria Castillo
Tutors
Luís Sallés
Saúl Baeza
Oscar Tomico
Eric Weiss
Format
Research Project
Topic
TFGYear
2023
Being human is an evolving concept. As we move into the digital age, we 
!nd ourselves at an intersection where our human qualities, technology, 
and our social fabric converge and intertwine. This convergence creates 
a liminal space, a sort of in-betweenness that drives us through the 
technological medium, reshaping the way we experience and interact 
with the world. But how exactly does our human experience translate, 
what does it mean to be a human being in transition –or disruption–?
This is an autoethnographic research project that disentangles 
and reveals our intricate relationship with technology by exploring the 
complex transition of a human connection, the one between a mother 
and a daughter. It is a personal story that reveals how the body—with its 
new materials–, language —with its new interferences–, and the social 
fabric —with its a"ections–transform in order to adapt to the screen. In 
essence, it sheds light on the challenges and changes that a human 
being faces to be a human today.
MY IPHONE IS MY MOTHER: Rare People, Glitching 
Thoughts and Modern Feelings does not aim to provide de!nitive 
answers. Rather it attempts to expose the politics of our bodies, the loss 
of certain languages, the role of interference, and the complex emotions 
that arise when our devices become objects of a"ection. The !nal project 
concludes in a manual as a resource for studying personal relationships 
and constructing an alternative way of generating experiences on the 
screen, recognizing and exploring the space for human agency in the 
realm of these media, which can distort, obscure, and fragment our 
understanding of what it really means to be human.