Star jury announced for Guggenheim's YouTube Play biennial

The Guggenheim have announced a star jury for the museum's open submission video art biennial, YouTube Play. Selecting from thousands of entries posted on the museum's YouTube channel (currently there are over 6,600 entries, with a closing date of 31 July).

The jury includes: performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson; music group Animal Collective, featuring Deakin (Josh Dibb), Geologist (Brian Weitz), and Panda Bear (Noah Lennox); filmmaker Darren Aronofsky; visual artists Douglas Gordon, Ryan McGinley, Marilyn Minter, and Takashi Murakami; artists and filmmakers Shirin Neshat and Apichatpong Weerasethakul; and graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister, with Guggenheim Chief Curator and Deputy Director Nancy Spector serving as jury chairperson.

On 21 October, 2010, the creators of the twenty selected videos and their work will be presented on HP technology at a celebratory event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The videos will remain on view to the public 22-24 October in the Tower 2 Gallery of the museum. The videos will also be highlighted for a worldwide audience on the YouTube Play channel at youtube.com/play beginning 21 October. In addition, the selected videos will be on view at the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin; the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.