The White Room (www.thewhiteroomcec.com) are developing an arts strategy for GMPTE - looking at how art might enhance the experience people have on Greater Manchester's transport network.

This blog will provide a window into this work; sharing quotes, vox-pops, and examples of cities across the world have fused public art with public transport to great effect.

We need your input in this process - there's no excuse to get involved - whether your an artist, a member of the public or one of our strategic partners...share your thoughts.
26 Feb 09

A beautiful example of fusing public art with Google Street view to create an interactive online art archive.

“On May 3rd 2008, artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley invited the Google Inc. Street View team and residents of Pittsburgh’s Northside to collaborate on a series of tableaux along Sampsonia Way. Neighbors, and other participants from around the city, staged scenes ranging from a parade and a marathon, to a garage band practice, a seventeenth century sword fight, a heroic rescue and much more…

Street View technicians captured 360-degree photographs of the street with the scenes in action and integrated the images into the Street View mapping platform. This first-ever artistic intervention in Google Street View made its debut on the web in November of 2008.”