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Anne Galloway presents an article at receiver titled Mobility as world building/technologies at play. In it she says,

In-between spaces, such as the beach between the ocean and the land, are interesting examples of ambiguity and multiplicity. Anthropologists have long studied cultural rituals that create and shape these and other liminal spaces. Liminal spaces are thresholds or transitions from one state to another, such as the space between no longer being a girl and not yet being a woman. From competitive games to narrative performances, rites of passage often involve play as a means to create these new relations, to flow between ambiguity and certainty, multiplicity and singularity.

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Artists have also playfully explored mobility and its boundary-blurring ability. In addition to film and animation, early attempts to introduce actual movement into works of art include Alexander Archipenko, Marcel Duchamp and László Moholy-Nagy’s kinetic sculptures. But it is Alexander Calder who is credited with the invention of the mobile. Calder’s mobiles hang from ceilings and walls; his standing mobiles involve fixed and moving parts, where the fixed elements do more than support the mobile elements; and his stabile sculptures suggest mobiles at particular points in space and time. Calder described his mobiles as nothing but moving elements, while Jean-Paul Sartre explained those movements as unpredictable but not random, limited but not determined.

Then she moves lightly from the cosmic bicycle to Noderunner, touching down at many enjoyable spaces here and there. Anne blogs at Purse Lip Square Jaw.