The 'portal' live-stream screen connecting Dublin and New York will reopen within days after it was turned off following 'inappropriate behaviour'.
The 'portal' live-stream screen connecting Dublin and New York will reopen within days after it was turned off following "inappropriate behaviour". The installation, created by Lithuanian artist Benediktas Gylys, links the centre of New York City with the heart of Dublin via a giant screen that live-streamed 24-hours a day.However, the screens began being used to insult and offend users on opposite sides of the Atlantic.
The Dublin portal is located across the road from Dublin's General Post Office, on O'Connell Street in the centre of the city.Meanwhile, the New York screen is located on Flatiron South Public Plaza at Broadway, Fifth Avenue, and 23rd Street.What began as an innocent way of reuniting friends on opposite sides of the Atlantic and jesting using pictures of potatoes on mobile phone screens quickly escalated.
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