Guggenheim To Showcase YouTube Videos

dward90 writes "The Guggenheim Museum in New York has begun a program to submit YouTube videos to be declared High Art. From PCW: 'Are your YouTube videos so good they deserve to be in a museum? Thanks to a partnership between Google and the Guggenheim Museum in New York you stand, at least, a remote chance. The search giant and one of the most famed museums in the world for modern and contemporary art are collaborating on a new project called YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video. The project will showcase up to 20 video works submitted to YouTube at the Guggenheim in New York on October 21, and online at YouTube.com/Play.'"

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In case you can't find the YouTube exhibit...

[Izabael_DaJinn]

It's wedged in between the Tubgirl and Goatse displays.

Of course Youtube videos can be high art

[selven]

Our society has already accepted that video is a legitimate form of artistic expression, and there are movies that are considered high art. Youtube is just a distribution medium, so if video can be high art so can Youtube video.

Re:Of course Youtube videos can be high art

[nyctopterus]

Absolutely. The "can x be art?" angle these sorts of stories pull is inane. "Yes" is the answer.

It's about time

[SnugglesTheBear]

It's about time Chocolate rain, star wars kid, numa numa, and fart in the duck get the intellectual respect they deserve.

Why Youtube?

[ThoughtMonster]

Isn't Vimeo more art-oriented than Youtube? A very large amount of videos on Vimeo can seriously be classified as visual art.

Re:Why Youtube?

[ladadadada]

Because Google doesn't own Vimeo. This is a partnership between Google and the Guggenheim Museum.

Early Submissions...

[fortapocalypse]

* Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
* Dramatic Chipmunk
* "Chocolate Rain" Original Song by Tay Zonday
* Numa Numa

I will submit

[by (1706743)]

A completely blank video, extending the concept of the blank canvas in the temporal dimension.

Not trying to be modern at all, but that's the only video my i7 Debian laptop can play (unless the Guggenheim has joined the HTML5 Beta...).

Re:Desperately trying to stay relevant

[ElectricTurtle]

Why don't you burn an Henri Rousseau painting while you're at it? Art is not the captive of schools and demagogues. Just because somebody doesn't have some kind of background or pedigree does not automatically make their product irrelevant, tasteless, or vulgar (connotatively as a negative, it remains denotatively vulgar as a neutral {funny, the spell checker thinks 'connotatively' is a word but not 'denotatively'}).