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The World’s First Collaborative Sentence |
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1994 |
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The World’s First Collaborative Sentence, created by Douglas Davis for a survey exhibition of his work in 1994 and donated to the Whitney in 1995, is a “classic” of Internet art. Allowing users to contribute to a never-ending sentence, it anticipated today’s blog environments and ongoing posts. In early 2012 the Whitney Museum undertook a preservation effort which resulted in two versions of the Sentence. |
 Douglas Davis, _The World’s First Collaborative Sentence_, 1994– (installation view, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, New York, January, 1996) |
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Statement |
"The Sentence has no end. Sometimes I think it had no beginning. Now I salute its authors, which means all of us. You have made a wild, precious, awful, delicious, lovable, tragic, vulgar, fearsome, divine thing." — Douglas Davis, 2000 |
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Related Article |
“When Artworks Crash: Restorers Face Digital Test” by Melena Ryzik, The New York Times, June 9, 2013. |
Keywords |
authorship, collaboration, community, context, digital, distribution, interface, language, obsolescence, preservation, process, public space, writing |
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