With the theoretical issues
I raised in my previous
post in mind, I’m going to present some suggestions that might
begin to address the practical concerns that they raise. To wit: one way
of
offering insight while enhancing the visitor’s experience (both online
and at
the various Guggenheim museums) would be to have YouTube Play’s
jurors, curators, and
artists provide commentary tracks for the pieces, which could be
selected or
ignored, much in the manner of more conventional exhibition audio-guides
or DVD
extras. Another way would be to invite both Play participants and
viewers
to remix or re-curate each other’s work. This would not only speak to
the
user-generated capacities of the material’s origins, but also provide
new
associations with—and provocative juxtapositions of—the works on
display.
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