ABSTRACT
Human beings are among the most mobile of animals. In an era in which mobile technologies are replaced and updated faster than almost any other product produced, things become outdated at an extremely rapid pace. The collaboration between embodied space, movement, and progress offers a lens for reading obsolescence in the mobile computing age, in which consumer behavior is largely tied to a desire to upgrade each year. Mobility studies have tended to focus on the processes of movement rather than focus on the production of location. The result will be a practice of embodied space that values the unique characteristics of place, the ways that mobile media inform those characteristics, and a dwelling that gives both the environment and the people within that space deeper significance. Dwelling with the work of art transforms the status of the mobile phone.
