Perola Bonfanti and I have created a page for our 13 Portal project on Facebook. "Like" us to find out when the project officially launches~

Check it out here! 

13 Portals is an interactive street art experience to be discovered in abandoned doorways on the sidewalks of New York City’s East Village this Summer, 2013. New York based artist, Nicolina & Brazilian artist Pérola M. Bonfanti seek to unite street art, technology and alchemy in these hand painted portals. 

The project welcomes and invites open participation by all. Its objective is to “pass” through the series of 13 portals beginning by scanning a unique QR code on each piece. Once the code is scanned the participant will be prompted to answer a question, or complete a task, each with escalating difficulty or complexity. Once each task is accomplished, the subsequent portal’s location is revealed, and the participant directed to it. Each portal must be visited and cracked in order, before the participant can pass through the 13th, and final portal. Once all 13 portals have been completed, the shroud of mystery behind the works will be lifted, and the 13 portals’ esoteric secrets unlocked.

Portals 0 and 1 were revealed on December 17, 2012 and are currently available for viewing and scanning. They serve as an introduction to the project which will officially launch Summer 2013 in the East Village. 

Portal 0 is waiting to be discovered on 3rd street, just east of 2 Ave, (next to The Bean Coffee Shop.)

Portal 3 of The 13 Portals