PIXELATOR

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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.

Since 2003, the MTA has made available for exhibition purposes 80 LED screens located at subway entrances across New York City. Unfortunately, the high cost of exhibiting (an estimated $274,000 per month per screen) prevents most artists from having access to these facilities. While the MTA's effort to create more opportunities for video art exhibition in public spaces is to be commended, selected works remain wholly fixated on commercial goods and media conglomerate events, a short-sighted curatorial choice that regrettably ignores the full potential of these promising exhibition spaces.

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.

(Translation: Pixelator turns those ugly, blinding video billboard ads into art.)

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• york
• city
• nyc
• advertising
• ads

[DrSurprise]

thanks to these bastards, the subway fare went up 25 cents!

[JasonEppink]

Ha!  Hardly. The MTA makes peanuts from advertising revenue, to the point of embarrassment.

[augustlincoln]

It's like AdBlock Plus for the real world! Finally!

[noizyme]

That's much better than seeing ads everywhere. Nice job.

[MrJarbuckle]

chuck norris is not that impressive

[delboy333]

Anyone know if there are instructions out there anywhere on how to make one of these?

[LEGOstart]

:3 sweet :3

[usenixuser]

thats a nice peace of art - 5 *

i love it !

[Prisn30]

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[m4lvolio]

Put it against your mother's cunt !!!

[Flinty88]

i r teh pixelator

[SputnikMedia]

kinda pointless seeing you could just make a video of a pixels and play it on the screen.

[jeremyhillaryboobphd]

@L0wnyus given what hes sticking it on i think hes really making the quality better haha