As a decidedly low-tech "multi-user environment" that allows for combinations of textual, visual, and aural components, it is a collective space which, in its broad array of voices and topics, achieves fluent transitions between the prosaic and the sublime.ĭouglas Davis, The World’s First Collaborative Sentence, 1994–, conserved 2012.
With its collaborative, polyvocal, multilingual, and boundless nature, the Sentence became a microcosm of the Web itself. The World's First Collaborative Sentence is a “classic” of Internet art. Any subject may be addressed, but no contribution can end with a period, as the Sentence is infinitely expanding. Visitors to the Sentence may add their own contributions to the webpages-there were more than 200,000 by early 2000, separated into twenty-one “chapters,” in dozens of languages and with a remarkable range of images and graphics. Together they had purchased the concept and a signed disk with recordings of the first days of the Sentence from the artist. The work was generously donated to the Whitney by Barbara Schwartz, in honor of Eugene M. Although the Whitney Museum of American Art acquired the Sentence in 1995 after it was shown in conjuction with Lehman College’s “InterActions,” a 1994 survey exhibition of the artist’s work, the piece was maintained on the website of Lehman College from 1994 until 2005.
and The City University of New York, with the assistance of Gary Welz, Robert Schneider, and Susan Hoeltzel. Originally Commissioned by the Lehman College Art Gallery, The City University of New York, for the exhibition Interactions, curated by Susan Hoeltzel.ĭouglas Davis’s The World’s First Collaborative Sentence (1994) is an ongoing textual and graphic online “performance” that was commissioned by the Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, N.Y. Programming: Gary Welz, Robert Schneider.
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