{"id":2590,"date":"2009-07-16T06:35:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T13:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/document\/the-worlds-first-collaborative-sentence\/"},"modified":"2009-07-16T06:35:17","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T13:35:17","slug":"the-worlds-first-collaborative-sentence","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/document\/the-worlds-first-collaborative-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"The World&#8217;s First Collaborative Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <span class=\"wiki\">1995<\/span>, the Whitney Museum acquired its first work of Internet art, Douglas Davis&#8217; <em>The World&#8217;s First Collaborative Sentence<\/em>. Commissioned by the Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York, in conjunction with &#8220;Interactions,&#8221; its 1994 survey exhibition of the artist&#8217;s work, Sentence is an ongoing textual and graphic performance on the World Wide Web that is owned by the Whitney Museum but was maintained on the Lehman website from 1994 &#8211; 2005.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Sentence owes its life to the Lehman College Art Gallery, which commmissioned it in the fall of <span class=\"wiki\">1994<\/span>. Susan Hoeltzel, the director, saw it as a logical if not necessary step out of &#8220;interactions,&#8221; the exhibition she had just organized at the college. Suddenly the college got access to a server, rare in those days, making a new website possible. When she asked me to do this my first thought was: the keyboard. As my first thought about video had been the gently rounded screen. The sentence and everything about it spun out of that moment; it is still spinning. When Eugene and Barbara Schwartz bought the sentence for their collection and later gave it to the Whitney (during David Ross&#8217; tenure), the work gained an even larger audience. Museums and universities and art galleries make audiences not merely possible but probable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/u8\/camera2.gif\" width=\"525\" height=\"392\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Museum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.afsnitp.dk\/udefra\/1\/dd\/museum.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[1] http:\/\/www.afsnitp.dk\/udefra\/1\/dd\/museum.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Collaborative Sentence\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitney.org\/arport\/collection\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"wiki external\">[2] http:\/\/www.whitney.org\/arport\/collection\/index.shtml<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"THE WORLD'S FIRST\" href=\"http:\/\/artport.whitney.org\/collection\/davis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[3] http:\/\/artport.whitney.org\/collection\/davis\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","artist":[57],"streams":[20],"keywords":[2111,2191],"decade":[5543],"media":[5547,5548],"class_list":["post-2590","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","artist-douglas-davis","streams-exhibitions-institutions-communities-collaborations","keywords-collaborative","keywords-sentence","decade-1990s","media-image","media-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/2590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/2590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"streams","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/streams?post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keywords?post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decade?post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}