Douglas Davis

The World's First Collaborative Sentence
1994–, conserved 2012

A screenshot of a vintage Netscape Navigator web browser displaying a blurred image of a person's face with text overlay that reads "Come closer get into the lens let me see you We are about to create together... The World's first...." The browser's toolbar icons and address bar are visible at the top, with the URL "http://CA80.lehman.cuny.edu/davis/" entered.
A screenshot of a vintage Netscape Navigator web browser displaying a blurred image of a person's face with text overlay that reads "Come closer get into the lens let me see you We are about to create together... The World's first...." The browser's toolbar icons and address bar are visible at the top, with the URL "http://CA80.lehman.cuny.edu/davis/" entered.

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Date
1994–, conserved 2012

Classification
Digital Art

Medium
Website (HTML)

Dimensions
Dimensions variable

Accession number
95.253

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Barbara Schwartz in honor of Eugene M. Schwartz 95.253. Originally commissioned by the Lehman College Art Gallery, The City University of New York, with the assistance of Gary Welz, Robert Schneider, and Susan Hoeltzel.

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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