We’ve been getting a lot of emails from artists who want to submit work for Bus-Tops lately. A blog post for submissions was made during our development phase and is still the place to add ideas, but just to be clear: We are not yet in a position to consider any ideas. Here’s a very [...]
October 22, 2009
We spoke to the very lovely people at Pixel-Lab about the This Is Playful conference happening on the 30th October as soon as we found out we’d won. We’ll be speaking at the event about Bus Tops, with a talk tentatively titled ‘Infinite Fun Space’ (Thanks for the title Ian M Banks!). If you’re interested [...]
October 22, 2009
Wow. We won!! Mostly we had put the project out of our minds whilst the judging panel made it’s decision. This was mainly so that we didn’t go completely bonkers with anticipation. But here we are: we are actually going to make Bus-Tops a reality! The other finalists in the London arc of the Artists Taking The Lead [...]
October 22, 2009
We tell our story in images, feel free to use them and spread the love. click for bigger or download them in slightly higher resolution here (5MB .zip)
September 28, 2009
We’ve been working hard the last week or so on getting our final presentation ready for todays selection meetings. Embedded below are the presentation slides if you’d like to have a look at the direction we’re going. Of course these slides are only half the story without our actual presentation and contextualisation but I hope [...]
September 18, 2009
One of the core values that runs through our work on the Bus-Tops project is open-ness. Both Paula and I (Alfie) have a genetic-level-tendency to keep things as open as practically possible, and through pretty much every project we’ve done we’ve also worked with “The Public” as much possible because hey - many heads and [...]
September 15, 2009
Summary: This post is specifically looking to engage artists with the Bus-Tops proposition, and seeking ideas for what artists might create for the platform. The Bus-Tops project is the proposed installation of approx. 40 LED boards on the roof’s of bus shelters across London. Anyone can then create work for any or all of these installations [...]
September 2, 2009
Bus.tops – a city wide canvas for sharing the art of our streets, our communities, our London, our experience. Marika jostles back and forth as she struggles up the stairs to the top of the 242 bus. There are seats below but she likes the view, she likes the feeling that she is seeing a different [...]
November 11, 2009