Registry
A ledger of operations that show art on urban screens, one row at a time. Operator, programming model, cadence, and status are recorded in one shape, whether or not an article covers the entry. Operations that have ended stay on the ledger.
PROGRAMMING MODEL
- Operator commission
- Ad-slot takeover
- Festival programming
- Corporate programme
- Museum commission
- Ticketed show
- Open call
- Nonprofit network
STATUS
- Active
- Ended
- Scheduled to end
- Status unverified
CITY
- Tokyo
- New York
- Seoul
- London
- Hong Kong
- Singapore
- Amsterdam
- Chengdu
- Los Angeles
- Melbourne
- Taipei
- AlUla
- Bangkok
- Charlotte
- Diriyah
- Doha
- Dubai
- Durham
- Eindhoven
- Hamburg
- Istanbul
- Johannesburg
- Lagos
- Las Vegas
- Lyon
- Miami
- Milan
- Paris
- Prague
- San Francisco
- Shanghai
- Sharjah
- Sydney
- Toronto
- Vienna
- West Hollywood
| Operation | Operator | Model | Since | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chih-Yu Chen’s DIFFUSE at Taipei Lumitree | Taipei Lumitree (designed, operated and programmed by NYC-based Tiger Party); DIFFUSE runs as one of the venue’s programmed artist slots | Corporate programme | 2026-07 | Scheduled to end |
| Zach Lieberman and Art in Frame at The Hyundai Seoul | Hyundai Department Store (The Hyundai Seoul) | Operator commission | 2025-12 | Active |
| Half a Century of Tamagawa Takashimaya S·C | Tōshin Kaihatsu (operator of Tamagawa Takashimaya S·C) | Operator commission | 2025 | Active |
| Taipei Lumitree and the Art-First Outdoor Screen | Tiger Party (NYC; design, operation and programming), developed by two Taiwanese property developers | Corporate programme | 2024-11 | Active |
| DIG SHIBUYA and the Midnight Hour at Shibuya Crossing | SHIBUYA CREATIVE TECH Executive Committee (co-hosted with Shibuya Ward); the night-art curation is handled, depending on the year, by MUTEK.JP × ETERNAL Art Space or REFRACTION | Ad-slot takeover | 2024-01 | Active |
| At-Turaif's Illumination and Diriyah's New-Media Art Hub | Diriyah Company (formerly DGDA) and the Saudi Museums Commission (Ministry of Culture) | Museum commission | 2024 | Active |
| DOOH Exploration by WallDecaux and OBJ.Studio Across German Cities | WallDecaux (JCDecaux Group) with OBJ.Studio as curator | Ad-slot takeover | 2024 | Active |
| TOKYO NODE at Toranomon Hills and the City-Facing Screen | Mori Building Co., Ltd. (TOKYO NODE operations) | Operator commission | 2023-10 | Active |
| Las Vegas Sphere and the Surface Where Ad and Artwork Never Part | Sphere Entertainment Co. (James Dolan, Chairman & CEO) | Ticketed show | 2023-09-29 | Active |
| TSX Broadway and the 86,000-Pound Stage Doors of Times Square | Developed by L&L Holding; the screen-and-stage apparatus runs under the TSX brand (TSX Entertainment) | Operator commission | 2023-01 | Active |
| Frameless London and the Portraits Brought to Life | Frameless Creative (opened 2022; CEO Richard Relton) | Ticketed show | 2022-10 | Active |
| The Calligraphic Facade of Dubai's Museum of the Future | Dubai Future Foundation | Ticketed show | 2022 | Active |
| Hall des Lumières and the Business of Immersion in New York | Culturespaces with IMG | Ticketed show | 2022 | Active |
| Outernet London and the Now Building | Outernet Global (operator) / Consolidated Developments (developer); the art strand is programmed by Outernet Arts | Operator commission | 2022 | Active |
| The M+ Facade as Curated Museum Display | M+ (under the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority) | Museum commission | 2022 | Active |
| Cross Shinjuku Vision and the Calico That Moved Into an Advertising Screen | Operated by Cross Space Inc., with operations delegated to Unica and advertising sales handled by Microad Digital Signage | Operator commission | 2021-07 | Active |
| the 64-Foot Sunset Spectacular in West Hollywood | Orange Barrel Media with the City of West Hollywood, as a public-private partnership | Operator commission | 2021 | Active |
| Art Innovation Gallery and the Open-Call Economy of LED Billboards | Art Innovation S.r.l. (Milan, founded 2021) | Open call | 2021 | Active |
| Chengdu's Naked-Eye 3D and Lawrence Argent's I Am Here | A commercial DOOH surface on Yingjia Plaza at Taikoo Li, Chunxi Road; the naked-eye 3D content is made and programmed by studio Flint Walk | Ad-slot takeover | 2021 | Active |
| CIRCA and the Globally-Synchronised Screen Network | CIRCA (London; founded by Josef O’Connor) | Nonprofit network | 2020-10 | Active |
| COEX K-POP Square, Seoul, and a'strict's WAVE (2020) | d'strict (operation), under the artist name a'strict | Ad-slot takeover | 2020-04 | Active |
| Land Art at AlUla's Wadi AlFann | Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU), Saudi Arabia | Operator commission | 2020 | Active |
| L-Shaped LEDs and the Rise of Anamorphic Signage | The media operators of each site (SMTown COEX Artium, Cross Space, Taikoo Li and others); the anamorphic content is produced and programmed by studios such as d'strict (a'strict) and FlintWalk | Ad-slot takeover | 2020 | Active |
| DEMO Festival and a 24-Hour Takeover of the Screen Network | Studio Dumbar/DEPT® (Rotterdam) with Exterion Media NL and twelve DOOH operators | Ad-slot takeover | 2019-11 | Active |
| JR's The Chronicles of San Francisco at SFMOMA | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) with JR Studio | Museum commission | 2019-05 | Ended |
| Tracing an Anonymous Curation Through Its Artists | Shibuya Television Co., Ltd. (NEO SHIBUYA TV) | Operator commission | 2018-07 | Active |
| Atelier des Lumières and the Immersive Museum as Show Business | Culturespaces, a private cultural operator founded in 1990 | Ticketed show | 2018-04 | Active |
| King Power MahaNakhon and Bangkok's Dissolving Skyscraper | King Power Group (developed by PACE Development; architecture by Büro Ole Scheeren) | Ticketed show | 2018 | Active |
| Anatomy of Piccadilly Lights | Owned by Landsec; operated by Ocean Outdoor | Ad-slot takeover | 2017-10 | Active |
| Projection and Taxidermy on the Nature Wall, Takao 599 Museum | City of Hachioji (owner); operated by Keio Agency and Keio Setsubi Service | Museum commission | 2015-08 | Active |
| Carsten Nicolai’s chroma actor at Seibu Shibuya, 2015–2026 | Sogo & Seibu Co., Ltd. (Seibu Shibuya) | Operator commission | 2015-08 | Scheduled to end |
| Hyundai Motorstudio Seoul and World on a Wire | Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Artlab / Hyundai Motorstudio Seoul) | Corporate programme | 2014-05 | Active |
| Bill Viola and Jenny Holzer at Hamad International Airport | Qatar Museums (public art programme) with Hamad International Airport | Museum commission | 2014 | Active |
| Signal Festival and Prague Goes Year-Round | Signal Production s.r.o., produced by the Signal Creative studio | Festival programming | 2013 | Active |
| Random International's Rain Room and Signage Without a Screen | Random International (Hannes Koch, Florian Ortkrass); permanently housed by Sharjah Art Foundation (UAE) | Museum commission | 2012-10 | Active |
| Ars Electronica Futurelab's ZeitRaum at Vienna Check-In 3 (2012) | Vienna International Airport × Ars Electronica Futurelab | Operator commission | 2012-06 | Status unverified |
| Daisy Collingridge and Isabel Garrett's Bod in Times Square | Times Square Arts (Times Square Alliance) with the Times Square Advertising Coalition; the March edition was guest curated by Damian Bradfield | Ad-slot takeover | 2012 | Active |
| Yael Bartana's Farewell in Times Square | Times Square Arts (Times Square Alliance); guest curated by Nato Thompson with Dreaming in Public | Ad-slot takeover | 2012 | Ended |
| Amsterdam Light Festival Along the Canals | Stichting Amsterdam Light Festival, a cultural ANBI nonprofit foundation | Festival programming | 2012 | Active |
| Tromarama's Turn On #2 in Times Square | Times Square Arts (Times Square Alliance) with the Times Square Advertising Coalition | Ad-slot takeover | 2012 | Active |
| Tomokazu Matsuyama's Morning Again at Times Square | Times Square Arts, the public-art arm of the Times Square district management body | Ad-slot takeover | 2012 | Active |
| The Lobby Screen of Singapore's ArtScience Museum | Marina Bay Sands (operator of the ArtScience Museum) | Museum commission | 2011-02 | Active |
| i Light Singapore and the Planning Authority's Festival of Light | The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) of Singapore | Festival programming | 2010 | Active |
| Durham's Lumiere and Artichoke's 16 Years, 2009–2025 | Artichoke (producer) / Durham County Council (commissioner) | Festival programming | 2009 | Ended |
| Hong Kong’s K11 MUSEA and the Mall Remade as Museum | K11 Group / New World Development (Hong Kong; founded by Adrian Cheng) | Corporate programme | 2009 | Active |
| Vivid Sydney and the Publicly Funded Festival of Light | Destination NSW, the state agency for tourism and major events | Festival programming | 2009 | Active |
| Yebizo's Outdoor Program as a Temporary Civic Screen | Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, TOP Museum and Arts Council Tokyo, with CCBT partnering on the outdoor centrepiece | Festival programming | 2009 | Active |
| Samsung d'light and the Corporate Showroom in Seocho, Seoul | Samsung Electronics, as the company's brand experience centre | Corporate programme | 2008 | Active |
| Eindhoven's GLOW and a Five-Kilometre Circuit Through the Dark | GLOW Foundation (Stichting GLOW, Eindhoven) | Festival programming | 2006 | Active |
| Toronto’s Sankofa Square and Its Civic Signage | Sankofa Square Board of Management (a City of Toronto agency) | Open call | 2004 | Active |
| Federation Square and the Publicly Curated Civic Display | Fed Square Pty Ltd, owned by the Government of Victoria | Operator commission | 2002 | Active |
| SHIBUYA TSUTAYA (QFRONT), a Vessel at the Scramble Crossing | SHIBUYA TSUTAYA, the flagship store housed in the QFRONT building, is operated by Culture Convenience Club (CCC); the facade vision "Q'S EYE" is built and run by Hibino | Corporate programme | 1999-12 | Active |
| Lyon's Fête des Lumières, a Festival the City Lights | The City of Lyon (Ville de Lyon) | Festival programming | 1999 | Active |
| Twenty-five Years of Art Intrusions on Causeway Bay's CVISION | SOGO Hong Kong and its parent, Lifestyle International Holdings | Operator commission | 1998 | Active |
| Light Art in the World’s Airports | Various airport operators (LAWA, Charlotte Douglas, Schiphol, Miami-Dade, iGA, Changi Airport Group, etc.) | Operator commission | 1987 | Active |
| 90 Years and Six Signs at Dotonbori | Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd. | Corporate programme | 1935 | Active |