YouTube Collaboration with Guggenheim Museum
SAN BRUNO, Calif. (KCBS) YouTube, the website where pretty much anything goes, is going uptown, partnering with the Guggenheim Museum in preparing an exhibit of the world's best video art.
Abbi Tatton with YouTube said they are excited over the collaboration as they try to discover the world's most creative videos.
The project, "YouTube Play" is asking people to submit videos up to ten minutes in length of anything that qualifies as art.
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"That's what this process will celebrate. The amazing content created all around the globe," said Tatton. "And giving them the international recognition that they deserve for some of these amazing works of art."
Guggenheim's Associate Curator of Contemporary Art Joan Young explains why YouTube will fit in nicely with the museums already impressive bodies of work.
"We've been collecting video art and also some internet art since the early 90s. So, considering how the use of video and the moving image has grown amongst contemporary artists, and the fact that YouTube itself has become this wealth of source material that people might look up a reference," said Young. "We wanted to draw more of a focus onto that."
They will be accepting submissions through the end of this month. You have to be at least 18-years-old to enter.
The exhibit opens in October on YouTube and at the Guggenheim in New York.
