Alfie Dennen recently wrote to london art blog to introduce his new project, shortlisted for the Artists Taking The Lead fund which is a UK Arts Council and Olympics commissioning fund.

Essentially the idea is to install around 40 1.5m x 1m LED arrays on the roof’s of London’s bus shelters which are Arduino and 3G powered. Absolutely anyone can then create work to be shown on these canvases using online tools we are developing. There is a blog post here that may be of interest to artists that want to get involved.

It looks a fascinating concept and has plenty of scope to reach people and hopefully surprise them during the morning commute. (I can only hope that this idea doesn’t become co-opted by the corporations though, we’ve more than enough advertisements in urban environments leading to over consumption as it is, but I digress).

Have a look at their blog and get involved people.