It was inevitable that a museum would get involved, and in June the Guggenheim took the leap. Teaming up with YouTube, it announced the inauguration of “YouTube Play, a Biennial of Creative Video,” a juried exhibition with an open-submissions policy. Anyone anywhere could submit a video to a YouTube site, as long as it had been made in the last two years and did not exceed 10 minutes. (Most of the 125 “shortlist” works are under five.) At the time of the announcement, there was much talk about originality and discovery, which sounds rather hollow now, compared with the low quality of the 25 finally selected. They were culled from 23,000 submissions by a panel of mostly artists, among them Laurie Anderson, Douglas Gordon and Marilyn Minter, led by Nancy Spector, the museum’s deputy director and chief curator.