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to counteract the pollutant dangers that affect 70% of the
world — our oceans. Protei is the first of this open platform’s
projects aimed at mapping and cleaning migrating pollution
disasters, namely oil spills, at sea. Not just a utopian prom-
ise, Protei is an ideal solution of navigational autonomy.
The twenty-two interpretations on the theme in Tracing
Mobility can be described as appropriations, and approxi-
mations, of an always transforming concept of space and
spatiality, and in turn one’s navigational routing within
it. While in recent years the term “mobility” has become
ubiquitous in ‘networked’ circles from art to philosophy and
sociology to technology, it clearly speaks to what is at issue,
and what is at stake, within the human condition. As such,
it concerns nothing less than our being in the world, of our
place and displacedness, and our perception of such “place”;
of our spatial awareness both real and virtual, and the im-
pact of one on the other; and of our innate (conceptual and
material) sense of physicality, which these works seek to map
as they migrate to and fro.
Anette Schäfer
Jennifer Davy
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