Friday, July 23, 2010

YouTube Play jury selected and ready to view your work

YouTube Play jury selected and ready to view your work

YouTube Play jury selected and ready to view your work

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 02:00 AM PDT

For artists, YouTube is a 21st century canvas. Since the YouTube Play project was announced last month, more than 6,000 videos ranging in genres, topics and budget have been submitted from 69 countries, and the YouTube Play channel has received over 2 million views.

Today, we're unveiling the jury for YouTube Play, which includes some of the world's leading artists, from international film festival winners and renowned photographers to performance and video artists on the cutting edge of art.

YouTube Play jurors include musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson; musical group Animal Collective; visual artists Douglas Gordon, Ryan McGinley, Marilyn Minter and Takashi Murakami; artists and filmmakers Shirin Neshat, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Darren Aronofsky; and graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister, with Guggenheim Chief Curator and Deputy Director Nancy Spector serving as jury chairperson.

Over the course of the next few months, these jurors will watch countless hours of videos submitted by the international YouTube community and select the most creative and inspiring work to showcase at the Guggenheim museums in October.

Already, this campaign has drawn some remarkable talent, and we're looking forward to seeing more of your submissions in our quest to find the most creative video art in the world and showcase it alongside van Gogh and Picasso. The deadline for getting your videos in is July 31. For more information about the jurors and to learn more about how to participate, check out youtube.com/play.

Ed Sanders, Senior Marketing Manager, recently watched "YouTube Play: Behind the Scenes."

"Unstaged” concert series brings you live music, starting with Arcade Fire

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 10:01 PM PDT

Hello, music lover, meet "Unstaged," a new five-part concert series brought to you by YouTube, American Express and VEVO. Each performance will not only be streamed live on YouTube, but it will also have unique on- and offline components to entertain fans -- for example, you may be able to vote on the encore performance or switch camera angles. And if you miss anything, no worries: the full show and highlights will be available on the artist's channel soon after the show.

Kicking off the series will be Arcade Fire, who will perform at Madison Square Garden in New York City on August 5. The concert will coincide with the release of Arcade Fire's third album, The Suburbs, and will be broadcast live to the world on www.youtube.com/arcadefirevevo.



Other artists slated to be part of the "Unstaged" lineup include John Legend and the Roots. More artists will be announced in the coming weeks so keep an ear tuned right here for more details.

Glenn Brown, Business Development, Music, and Dana Vetter, Marketing Programs, recently watched "Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #2 (Laika) ."

You Report: What’s happening now in the Bay Area?

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 04:00 PM PDT

Though YouTube is a global site, it's often local videos that are most relevant to your life. When people use camcorders and mobile phones to capture newsworthy events in their neighborhoods and upload them to YouTube, they're broadening the window into our own communities. For example, in the San Francisco Bay Area (where YouTube is based), we've seen several YouTube videos inform local news coverage, from the snapping of support cables on the Bay Bridge, to the shooting of Oscar Grant by an Oakland police officer, to fights breaking out on Muni, the local bus system.

Earlier this summer, we announced our CitizenTube News Feed, the first of two projects we're doing with the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Now, we're participating in an experiment in citizen reporting right here in our own backyard. We're joining forces with our local ABC station, ABC7 (KGO-TV), to launch the ABC7 uReport powered by YouTube. ABC7 will use YouTube Direct to collect news footage from people in the San Francisco Bay Area. Residents of the Bay Area are invited to document the news and events happening where they live, work and play, and to submit those videos via YouTube Direct to the producers at ABC7. The team at ABC7 will feature newsworthy videos on television (Channel 7 in the Bay Area), on their website (ureport.abc7news.com), and on their YouTube channel (youtube.com/abc7news).



Do you have a video camera and live in the Bay Area? You can participate in the project by submitting your news videos to ureport.abc7news.com, and be sure to follow along on Twitter (@abc7newsbayarea) and on Facebook (facebook.com/abc7news) for the latest news and updates.

Olivia Ma, News Manager, recently watched "Dancing at Sunday Streets Mission."
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