March 13, 2006
PORTA2030
Porta-Pack
PORTA2030 is a performative urgency network exercise with PORTA-porters. PORTA2030 launches its porta-pack, a wifi compact unit that documents, archives and transmits during the Node London media season in March 2006. PORTA2030 locates East London's Broadway market, a racially mixed urban block currently under regeneration plan of Hackney council, as the site for its public performance...
PORTA2030 engages the community members as PORTA-porters in scripting its site-specific urgency scenario. Roaming in Broadway Market's public wifi zone, PORTA-porters equipped with porta-packs upkeeps the communal data and echoes each other upon receiving urgency signals. Audio and visual data transmitted live from porta-packs and displayed in public view is further remixed, calling for active public participation and intervention.
PORTA2030 holds 3 public meeting sessions to discuss self-initiative networks, sign up PORTA-porters, conduct scripting sessions and porta-pack workshops.
Join us on Broadway Market, E8, London
March 15- Gossip (#62) - 3pm to 6pm
March 22- Fabrications (#7) - 3pm to 6pm
March 30- off Broadway (#63-65) - 6pm to 9pm
To sign up as PORTA-porters
now[at]take2030.net
PORTA2030 Broadway market public performance
April 24 to May 1. 2006.
http://www.porta2030.net
Broadway market in transition:
34 Broadway market occupation
http://34broadwaymarket.omweb.org/modules/wakka/HomePage
Hari Kunzru's Guardian articles
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1660371,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1678046,00.html
Node London media seasion
http://www.nodel.org
Posted by jo at March 13, 2006 12:42 PM
