谷歌幫助保存正在漸漸消失的街頭藝術

Google Helps Immortalize The Vanishing World Of Street Art谷歌幫助保存正在漸漸消失的街頭藝術 By Emily Thomas 作者：艾米麗 湯姆斯

Street art is far from static in the ever-changing urban jungle.

街頭藝術在風雲變幻的城市生活中絕不是一成不變的。

Building walls get ripped down, taking with them painstakingly detailed murals; frustrated landlords whitewash over laborious graffiti, and gradually, those impermanent works become nothing but a distant memory.

一座座高樓大廈的被拆除，伴隨着它們毀滅的是藝術家嘔心瀝血創作的精細壁畫。沮喪的屋主們刷白苦心創作的塗鴉，漸漸地，這些暫時的作品成爲遙遠的回憶。

In an effort to immortalize urban art, Google launched the Street Art Project in tandem with a handful of art institutions Tuesday. The new interactive site allows users to get up-close and personal with street art spaces from around the world. Featured spaces include New York City’s late 5 Pointz graffiti mecca and the giant murals adoring the abandoned building walls of Buenos Aires’ Coghlan Art District.

爲了保存城市藝術，谷歌和多個藝術機構於週四聯合啓動了街頭藝術計劃”。“新互動網址能夠讓使用者們近距離親身體驗世界各地的街頭藝術。

“These works of art that decorate our streets do not always hang about for long, which is why we’re delighted to work with partners around the globe to help them tell a story of street art around the globe,” Amit Sood, Google Cultural Institute's director, told Time.

“這些裝飾街道的藝術作品不能長時間留在牆上，因此我們很樂意與全球各地的夥伴合作，來講述街頭藝術的故事。”谷歌文化學院主管阿米特•蘇特這樣告訴時代週刊。

Created by the Paris-based Google Cultural Institute, the project contains more than 5,000 iconic works cataloged into mini digital exhibits. The project's partnership with hundreds of museums, archives and cultural institutions allows the collections to be contextualized with a history of the region’s street art movement. Some works, like the labyrinth of graffiti-covered rooms of Paris 13, even offer interactive Google Street View tours.

這項計劃由立足於巴黎的谷歌文化學院創辦，超過5000個圖形藝術作品被收入迷你數字展館。此項計劃的衆多合作伙伴，包括上百個博物館，檔案和文化學院，使得藏品能夠情境化地與當地街頭藝術的歷史聯繫起來。有的作品，比如巴黎十三區塗鴉滿屋構成的迷宮，甚至提供了互動的谷歌街景視圖。

Inside the now demolished Paris 13 tower in France
被毀還的法國巴黎十三區塔內部的場景

＂Using Street View, you can also explore buildings with street art that are closed to the public, or that have already been demolished—such as the famed Paris 13 tower,＂the Google Cultural Institute said in a statement. ＂Street art may be temporary on our walls and sidewalks, but its beauty and vibrancy live on, on the web.＂

“用谷歌街景，你可以探索到那些人們身邊的街頭藝術，或是那些已經被毀壞了的街頭藝術——比如著名的巴黎十三區　塔，”谷歌文化學院在一項聲明中說，“街頭藝術可能只能暫時留在牆上或是人行道，但它的美感與活力會一直留在網　上。”

Shepard Fairey, the graffiti artist notorious for his depiction of President Barack Obama in a 2008 election poster, says he supports the concept for its accessibility.
“I＇ve always used my street art to democratize art, so it would be philosophically inconsistent for me to protest art democratization through Google,” he told The New York Times through a publicist. “As long as they credit the mural to me, and it’s not being used for commercial purposes or corporations.”

塗鴉藝術家謝潑德•費爾雷因2008年大選之時所作的有關奧巴馬總統的繪畫而聲名狼藉，他也因這個設想給塗鴉帶來的易訪問性而支持它。“我經常用我的街頭藝術來使藝術大衆化，所以對我來說，反對谷歌對藝術大衆化做出的努力有悖我一貫的原則。”他通過公關人員這樣告訴紐約時報，“只要大家還因塗鴉而受人讚譽，只要塗鴉沒有被用作商業用途，我都會堅持這樣做”

Users can also be ＂spotters＂ and contribute to the project by uploading their street art photos to social media with the hashtag #StreetArtProject.

使用者們也可以成爲“觀察員”，拍攝他們看到的街頭藝術照片，並帶上hashtag #StreetArtProject上傳到社交網絡以對該計劃做出貢獻。