Bus-Tops
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Bus.Tops – a city wide canvas for sharing the art of our streets, our communities, our London, our experience.
Bus.Tops provides the canvas that allows London to tell its stories. These can be small, intimate stories of a neighbourhood or citywide adventures that draw us into a London we never imagined; or simply moments of beauty, wonder, questioning, critique, comment and exploration. These stories unfold on a canvas made up of networked panels of programmable LEDs situated on the roofs of bus stops across London.
As well as the canvas, Bus.Tops provides the tools and platform from which both publicly recognised artists and the public we recognise as artists are empowered to create a truly public art experience. Bus.Tops will work with established artists to create a “curated” collection of works distributed across the bus.tops canvas. These will be celebrated as being at the vanguard of artistic innovation and exploration. However these works will also be the foundation from which a new generation of authors and artists will be inspired create their first piece of public art.
The potential of Bus.Tops is only limited by the imagination of 8 million Londoners.
Ed note: The Tag Line 'I had to climb up here just to say hello' is from an existing work by someone, we found the image here If anyone knows who created it please let us know!
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Bus.Tops - I had to climb up here just to say hello - video intro
documentally(podcast-at-documentally-dot-com) says:
Love it.
Bus stops tend to be sad places full of people not interacting. If they are engaged with anything it is their mobile phones. Think of all the interaction they are missing out with those around them. Maybe some shared art will change these crowded yet isolatory places.
bustops says:
Thanks so much mate. That thinking is exactly what prompted and informed my and @p4u7a's thinking for the project. Tom Armitage said some really interesting things also about how bus stops are this awesome nexus of information, being as they are situated permanently in spaces surrounded by buildings and businesses that are constantly generating information. Imagine that alongside the art we're talking about; all that information the displays could tap into, and talk about it in a local context.
