The group behind the viral “Portal” art installation in New York City’s Flatiron Plaza has relocated the livestreaming sculpture/social experiment to Philadelphia, Portals.org confirmed on Saturday.
Portals.org says the portal will turn on next week and connect to multiple others around the country via a 24/7 livestream. According to the organization’s website, there are established portals in Vilnius, Lithuania; Lublin, Poland; Dublin, Ireland and one coming soon in the state of Piaui, Brazil.
More information on Philly’s portal will be revealed in a news conference Tuesday morning.
The portal in New York was connected to an identical one in Dublin. Since its unveiling on May 8 , the New York portal attracted thousands of visitors as New Yorkers grew enamored with fostering real-time connections with Dubliners through a livestream.
But bad behavior , including people flashing the screen or holding up disturbing images, then led to the portal getting shut down . After a few days, the portal reopened with additional security measures on both the New York and Dublin sides.