BIOS Zone 6: The Mobile Portal Unit
The Mobile Portal Unit is a work by Kim Newall, designed to perform, converse with and disrupt the lab using a signals and code. The unit connects Te Tai Tokerau to parallel realities created in collaboration with SEADS’ Biomodd [ABD14] project located in an empty phone shop in Aberdeen; a home in Bahia, Brazil; a site in Sansar VR, and a web-based VR lab.
Moving and Mad
The work has multiple elements including a VJ station, various computers receiving signals, monitors, audio exciters to generate sound, and its own projector. It is ever- changing with a role to change or subvert the content in the space.
The unit was Zone 6 of BIOS operated by Kim at select times during the lab, including performances in the space.


