NEW YORK, NY.- On April 12, the Webby Awards announced that YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video has been nominated for awards in three categories: Best Web/Art, Best Web/Events, and Best Event/Live Webcast. Now in its fifteenth year, the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences present Webby Awards to honor excellence on the Internet. Each category has two winners: the Academy selects one and the public, who can vote during the Peoples Voice voting period, select the other. Visit the Webby's website through April 28, 2011, to vote for YouTube Play in the Webby Peoples Voice Awards.
In October 2010, Guggenheim and YouTube, in collaboration with HP and Intel, presented YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video. From more than 23,000 YouTube video submissions from 91 countries across the globe, the
Guggenheims curators selected shortlist of 125 videos, from which a distinguished jury picked the top 25 works. The top videos and artists were celebrated at an event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York on October 21, 2010. Videos were projected on the exterior of Frank Lloyd Wrights landmark building on Fifth Avenue as well as inside the museums rotunda. From October 22 to 24, 2010 the works were shown at Guggenheim museums in New York, Berlin, Bilbao, and Venice. The online component of the project is its YouTube channel, where you can still view the shortlist and top 25 videos, as well as highlights from the event in New York.
Watch the awards live online June 13, 2011.