Animal Collective helped pick YouTube videos for the Guggenheim ++ Avey Tare release party tonight
Avey Tare @ Governors Island this summer (more by Erez Avissar)
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and YouTube, in collaboration with HP and Intel, tonight announced the top 25 videos, selected from 23,358 online video submissions and 91 countries, for YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video. The announcement was made at a special celebratory event at the Guggenheim Museum this evening, “YouTube Play. Live from the Guggenheim,” with a corresponding global live stream at YouTube.com/Play.
On behalf of the jury, Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and Jury Chairperson, said, “It was our goal to reach the widest possible audience, inviting individuals from around the world to submit a video for consideration. While our original goal had been to select 20, the jury was so moved by the quality of work submitted that we decided to honor a final list of 25. We believe the end result is 25 of the most unique and innovative video work to be created and distributed online during the past two years.”…
…The YouTube Play jury included: 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.
Avey Tare was left out of the jury. Maybe because he’s been too busy working on his new album which is released this week. To celebrate, he and some friends will be getting together at Secret Project Robot in Brooklyn tonight (10/25), and everyone is invited. Details below…
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Hello,
Tonight at Secret Project Robot
Animal Collective member Dave Portner a.k.a. Avey Tare is releasing his first solo record, called Down There…
There’s an installation by Abby Portner, comedians and dj’s Brad Truax, Josh from Animal Collective and Brian from Gang Gang Dance…
should be good fun.Hope to see you!
8pm
Free
