THE restoration of York Minster's Great East Window will be brought to life from tonight in a ground-breaking digital art installation.

Recovered Light, by renowned international artists Marc Downie, Shelley Eshkar and Paul Kaiser (known as the OpenEnded Group), will allow people to see the window's scenes up close for the first time. The artwork, which will be in place until January 28, will be projected on to a massive screen on the scaffolding which covers the entire eastern faade of York Minster for the period of the refurbishment.

It will act as a kind of virtual X-ray, peering through the scaffold at the Great Window. It will bring to life the restoration, designed to improve the clarity and condition of the 15th century window and save it from collapse.

Paul Kaiser, of the New York-based OpenEnded Group, said: "We're extremely excited about lighting up York Minster as never before. Our artwork will result in a spectacle that never repeats itself during the course of its run and will reward not only visitors to the city encountering it a single time, but also York citizens who will come across it repeatedly."