New York–Dublin Portal

The New York–Dublin Portal (also simply known as The Portal) is an interactive installation created by Lithuanian artist Benediktas Gylys to allow people in New York City and Dublin to interact with each other using two 24-hour live streaming video screens (without audio). The second series of installations in Gylys' Portal series, the New York–Dublin Portal has been compared to Paul St George's past art installation named the Telectroscope, which connected New York to London in 2008.

History
The Portal sculpture concept was created by Benediktas Gylys. The first of these to be unveiled was the Portal linking Vilnius, Lithuania to Lublin, Poland on May 26, 2021. Following its success, it was confirmed in March 2024 that by spring, Dublin and New York would be the next cities to receive them.

On Wednesday, May 8, 2024, the portals were introduced in their respective cities, with the New York screen being installed on the Flatiron South Public Plaza at 23rd Street, Fifth Avenue and Broadway next to the Flatiron Building, while the Dublin screen was positioned on O'Connell Street. In a press release on the same day, Gylys said they will only remain in place until autumn. To celebrate the launch, people in both cities held up signs to greet each other, with people on the New York side performing a dance routine.

On June 12, 2024, a collaboration of the Museum of Mathematics in Manhattan and Maths Week Ireland saw 10 year old school children in both New York City and Dublin use the portal to challenge each other to solve challenging puzzles.

Abuse of the portal
On Monday, May 13, 2024, the connecting screens were turned off temporarily after participants behaved improperly. Some on the Dublin side displayed pornography and imagery of the September 11 attacks, projected profanities from their phone screens, and performed indecent exposure. On the New York side, an OnlyFans model exposed her breasts to those in Dublin. A Dublin City Council spokesperson said the authority had seen a "very small minority" behaving unsuitably, and technical solutions to address it are being implemented. The Council ruled out the possibility of blurring the video feed.

On Sunday, May 19, the New York and Dublin Portals were placed back online with updated digital technology to blur the screen if a person enters a visual field too close to the Portal. This has prevented several attempts by individuals to project images through the portal's camera system.

Reception
Shortly after the New York-Dublin Portal was reactivated in May 2024, the novelist Megan Nolan wrote for The Guardian: "There was something simian about [the Portal], not only in that it felt zoo-like being regarded by the other side as they waited to be entertained, but also in the way that people behave when language is out of bounds."