A still from Dancing Cats - Go Kitty Go!. Courtesy of YouTube.

jb: Are you suggesting that "art" cannot be appreciated as such by the masses that flock to YouYube to get their fix of dancing cats? 

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There's been a lot of response to my last article. This really interesting challenge just arrived in my inbox. In fact, it’s so strong that I’m publishing it in full.

A still from Noteboek, 2008, by Evelien Lohbeck

A close encounter with the next five of twenty-five YouTube Play award winners, films beginning with L through N.

A still from the short film Deuce

So you wanna watch movies, eh? (Is my Canadian accent showing?) Well, pull up your potato chips and have a sit down...

Still from the short film Bath Tub IV by Keith Loutit

There's at least some form of animation in all the YouTube Play winning entries. Which tells me that animation's star is rising in the art world.

YouTube Play.

Since 2005 YouTube has given us a prime venue for quick and dirty moving images. And now the powers that be in the art world are trying to grade that production.

The result is the first YouTube-Guggenehim joint exhibition, YouTube Play, an effort to pick the best of the 2 billion videos being screened daily on YouTube.

Who selected and juried the 23,358 submissions?