It is yellow, it has got lots of tentacles –and it is alive. OCTO - the Official Miscommunication Platform of transmediale 2013 was successfully tested. The work OCTO-P7C-1 Intertubular Pneumatic Packet Distribution System is the result of a joint collaboration between the reSource transmedial culture berlin/transmediale, the Berlin-based collective Telekommunisten, and the group of architects raumlabor berlin.

OCTO-P7C-1 is not only a living metaphor of a social network, but also a tribute to the local Berlin Rohrpost. It is a functioning pneumatic mini-network which will connect different areas of the HKW during transmediale 2013.

In the last weeks OCTO was tested first at Palais Podewil and at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. The photo and video documentations below show some interesting insights of this special piece of Networked Art.

Video credits: raumlaborberlin