Porta2030, an updated networked 21st century version of the reel to reel portapack launched by Sony in the 1960’s and famously used by Nam June Paik who recently passed away:
is a performative urgency network exercise with porta-porters. During the week of April 24 to May 1, 2006, 10 porta-porters, each assigned a mobile network unit, traverse Broadway Market’s PORTA wifi zone. The porta-pack, a compact pack carrying a flashcard drive, a webcam, an LCD terminal with 4 click buttons and a speaker, is a DIY wifi network unit. The porta-pack documents, transmits and archives the community in transition with porta-porters on the go. An inter-communication module is developed with porta-porters . 3 urgency sensors triggered by real life events on Broadway Market further command collective action among the porta-porters. On view at Broadway market’s are PORTA2030 documents and livecast of porta-porters’ performative exercise.
More documentation concerning the work is available on the website with some video here.
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January 17th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
[…] Something happening tonight in Amsterdam which people may be interested in watching the stream of. Hivenetworks, Vladimir Grafov and Alexei Blinov, who have previously worked on Porta2030 which I posted about in October, will be presenting their research / projects and talking about the concept of Hive networks. […]
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