Art Everywhere troca anúncios por obras de arte em outdoors da Inglaterra

Durante duas semanas, obras de artes tomaram conta de 22 mil outdoors por cidades do Reino Unido, lugares antes reservados para propaganda. A ideia por trás do projeto Art Everywhere foi trazer 57 das pinturas inglesas mais famosas dos museus para as ruas, ocupando grandes espaços de mídia externa como em ruas movimentadas, pontos de ônibus, trens e metrôs. Resultado: a maior exposição de arte do mundo.

A relação dos habitantes com a arte e com a própria cidade mudou. Não há tempo e somos onipresentes. Será que as pessoas que passaram por estes pontos notaram a diferença?

Com a liderança de Sir Peter Blake – famoso por criar a capa do álbum Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band dos Beatles – a iniciativa uniu grandes parceiros e colaboradores como o Tate Modern, o Art Fund, diversas agências de publicidade britânicas, e também empresas como Clearchannel e JC Decaux.

Para abrir o projeto, Blake revelou seu próprio trabalho datado da década de 80, The Meeting or Have a Nice Day Mr Hockney, em um enorme outdoor em Westfield London Shopping Centre.

As demais peças foram selecionadas pelo público, a partir da coleção da galeria nacional de arte britânica. Dentre elas, estão pintores do século 19 como Turner e Whistler, do século 20 como John Singer Sargent e até trabalhos do contemporâneo Damien Hirst. Uma das artes mais votadas foi a The Lady of Shalott, de 1888, por John William Waterhouse.

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Para aqueles que não encontram tempo para os museus ou ainda consideram as galerias de arte intimidadoras, essa é a chance.

Ocupando espaços normalmente reservados para publicidade, a competição com os diversos anúncios – de “última geração”, passando por gráficos em movimento, 3D e interação – que rodeiam a obra de arte, podem até fazer com que ela passe despercebida por muitos.

Para amantes de arte ou pessoas mais observadoras, a ideia é de puro prazer. Já para os apressados cidadãos da cidade grande – que se não estão encarando o trânsito, não desgrudam os olhos do celular – além de facilitar o acesso e o contato com a arte, o projeto oferece um tempo de contemplação em meio ao caos diário.

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This Year’s U.S. Open Is a Data Rally


The US Open is a celebration of international tennis prowess, luxury brand integrations and fan enthusiasm that seems to go off without a hitch every year. But behind the scenes, IBM has helped run the show since 1990, and the U.S. Tennis Association just signed another four-year contract with the firm.

The partnership has become a test bed of data-fueled innovation that not only reaches consumers and media covering the event, but now even uses social-media data to influence how server resources are allocated. IBM has applied the predictive-analytics-based work for other clients, too.

A command center in the depths of Arthur Ashe stadium in New York’s Flushing, Queens, is a monitor-filled visual hub for the steady information stream that has turned the event into a data rally. It’s officially known as the Scoring Operations Room, but the information flowing there goes beyond match scores. Handheld devices used courtside feed multiple data points such as serve speeds from each match into the system, where they hit a database that’s accessible to announcers broadcasting the games, and reporters hunkered down in media lairs in the lower level of the stadium.

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Mr. Borrelle declined to comment about his new position and did not immediately disclose where he’s headed, though it’s understood he’s not landing at a client of McGarryBowen.

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