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Guggenheim To Showcase YouTube Videos

Posted by samzenpus on from the neal-cassady-and-the-star-wars-kid dept.

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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  1. In case you can't find the YouTube exhibit... by Izabael_DaJinn · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  2. Of course Youtube videos can be high art by selven · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  3. It's about time by SnugglesTheBear · · Score: 3, Insightful

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

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  4. Why Youtube? by ThoughtMonster · · Score: 3, Interesting

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

    1. Re:Why Youtube? by ladadadada · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

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