New project by Shu Lea Cheang. Details follow, Lauren
PORTA2030 by TAKE2030
You are the Net. You are Porta-porter.
Towards a portable and responsive social network.
www.porta2030.net
Broadway Market (E8, London)
April 24 - May 1, 2006
April 29
Press conference, 1-3 pm
Outside Fabrications, 7 Broadway Market
Porta-porter relay network performance, 2-5 pm
Wifizone Broadway Market
May day, 8pm
Public media at Broadway Market.
PORTA2030 locates Broadway Market, a racially mixed urban regeneration
street, as the site for its week long performative urgency network exercise.
PORTA2030 deploys 10 porta-packs, each a mobile network unit, to 10
porta-porters residing and working on Broadway Market. This net version of
porta-pack with webcam and click button communicative device connects 10
Porta-porters in a playful public interface.
JOIN US @ Broadway Market
Run Porter Run
10 porta-porters on the run
Samantha Jayne Hulston, Hasan Chetin , Spirit and Rebecca Grant ,
Barley Massey, Magdalena Lemanczyk , Louise Brewood , Jay J Sayshun,
Vanessa Wildman, Arthur Shuter, The Eel fanzine.
Plasma screen with live network transmission Fabrications, 7 Broadway
Market.
PORTA2030 documents can be viewed at
Broadway Fish Bar, F.Cooke Live Eels, Broadway Gents Hair Styling, Broadway
Wines, Broadway Cafe , Blooming Weezie, The film shop, H. Tidiman Butchers ,
Gossip, Off Broadway, Nutricious Food Gallery, SevenSeven, Bradbury
Hardware.
[email protected]
PORTA2030 by TAKE2030
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