I was reading an article in the ‘Metro’ on the train this morning about the trial expansion of the video billboards for platforms on the London Underground, when i was reminded of a video i saw about a year ago of a Project by Jason Eppink called Pixelator, after a little googling i found it.

Pixelator is an unauthorized on-going video art performance collaboration with the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority, Clear Channel Communications, and its selected artists.

In an attempt to broaden the scope of MTA’s video art series, Pixelator takes video pieces currently on display and diffuses them into a pleasant array of 45 blinking, color-changing squares. Since the project is an anonymous collaboration, the resulting video is almost entirely unplanned and unanticipated, with the original artists helping to create new works of art without any knowledge of their participation.

Abstractor by Ji Lee, is another project by the same group of people as Pixelator.

Abstractor is a simple device that instantly transforms any TV into a beautiful piece of art.

Anyone can easily create an Abstractor by attaching two black boards to any TV screen. These boards cover the screen entirely – except for a small horizontal gap between them – allowing a narrow beam of light to escape from the TV. All TV programs and commercials look beautiful through the Abstractor.