Laurie Anderson, who released Homeland, her first studio record in nearly a decade, last month on Nonesuch, will be among the jury members of YouTube Play, a video biennial from YouTube and the Guggenheim Museum. YouTube Play is meant to search for and showcase talent in the ever-expanding realm of online video. Also on the jury are Animal Collective; director Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain); visual artists Douglas Gordon, Ryan McGinley, Marilyn Minter, and Takashi Murakami; artists and filmmakers Shirin Neshat and Apichatpong Weerasethakul; and graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister. Guggenheim Chief Curator and Deputy Director Nancy Spector will serve as jury chairperson.

Since the launch of YouTube Play on June 14, more than 6,600 videos have been submitted from around the world, attracting more than 2.6 million viewers to the YouTube Play channel to date. The deadline for submissions is next Saturday, July 31, 2010, at 3 PM EDT.

According to Spector, the jury "will be looking for work that will test, elevate, and experiment with video as it is manifest online. We are less interested in what’s ‘now’ than in what’s next.” YouTube Play is open to students and amateur video makers, artists, and creative professionals. Submissions may include animation, motion graphics, narrative, nonnarrative, documentary, and music videos. The jury will review a short list of up to two hundred video works that have been prescreened by the Guggenheim from the pool of videos submitted by the international YouTube community and uploaded to the You Tube Play channel (youtube.com/play). From the short list, the jury will select up to 20 that they deem the most creative and inspiring, regardless of genre, technique, or budget. The short-listed videos will be on the YouTube Play channel beginning in September.

On October 21, the creators of the 20 selected videos and their work will be presented at a celebratory event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The videos will remain on view to the public October 22–24 in the Tower 2 Gallery of the museum. The videos will also be highlighted for a worldwide audience on the YouTube Play channel beginning October 21. In addition, the selected videos will be on view at the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin; the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.

For more information and to submit a video, head to youtube.com/play.