Spotted on Bus-Tops’ Website:

“Bus-Tops is a proposed installation of approximately 40 1.5m x 1m LED panels on the roofs of bus shelters across all London boroughs. It is one of 5 shortlisted proposal for the Artists Taking The Lead fund, a major project of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad being developed by Arts Council England in partnership with London 2012 and the arts councils of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

The Bus-Tops installations will display work created by the public. Artists who identify as such but critically it is for absolutely anybody who has a voice and has something to say to people in London. The installations are intended to pleasantly and wonderfully disrupt commuters experience of riding on buses… To jolt us out of our ipod-listening-london-paper-reading habits and inspire joy and wonder in the last place you’d expect it – on the roof of a bus shelter.

If our project is chosen, we will have the network of LED Canvases installed and operational from July 2011 to August 2012. As well as the public submitted work which the project focuses on, we will be curating work which celebrates the values of the cultural olympiad.

A big part of the development phase that we’re in right now is in imagining and understanding just how people might use this new canvas. The fund is for up to £500k and in our budgeting we have allocated 20 artist grants of £2,000 each. These grants might be for individuals, groups, or collectives.

This post is a call to any artist interested in working with us, whether you are in London, the UK, or anywhere in the world. We are looking for beautiful ideas for how the canvas can be used to engage London bus travellers. We hope that through your ideas submitted here we will be able to build our first curatorial arc of the project.”

More about this project here.