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Research Critics on The World's First Collaborative Sentence

Goh Cher See

Monday, Sep 18, 2017 - 12:47:45 am

@ CherSee

The World’s First Collaborative Sentence was a digital artwork by Douglas Davis. The reading provided was a description of the artwork’s crash and corrupted file of coded text and the restoration of the artwork. The online artwork allows the public to participate and create a sentence, the world’s longest sentences being created by the collective effort of the audiences.

The digital artwork Read more →

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Excellent, and good example of the bike project that involved crowd-sourcing. That is the operative term for when individuals collectively problem solve, or cooperate. In fact in the essay, they talk about having people translate the corrupted text through crowd sourcing. I thought you capture the scope and quality of this important seminal Internet work very well.
I totally agree that the artwork is related to our social network today and how we constantly share and comment on this platform. A few days back, I came across a Twitter wall where people can post their twitters on this wall and everyone can see their post online. It shows that people are willing to expose themselves to people around them and interacting by commenting. This brings the point of how the public can create much more content towards an artwork as compared to a few people interacting with the internet art. As more people get expose to internet art, there is a possibility of collaboration among people across the world bringing people closer than before. People are scared to lose out in social media hence the constant checking of these platform to share and comment creating super participation. Overall I enjoyed your essay!

Research Critique Hyperessay - The World’s Longest Collaborative Sentence

Su Hwee Lim

Monday, Sep 18, 2017 - 12:16:34 am

@ Hwee's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-fhUb9wWmE

Douglas Davis was interested in exploring the possibility of video and internet interactivity. He was once a writer before he started his artist career on 1960s. A few notable work from him was the satellite broadcast “The Last Night Minutes” that feature him staring out of the television trying to make connection with the viewer and trying to escape visually Read more →

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Many good points here, including this shift from the broadcast to the keyboard. I really like that distinction, though nowadays, as we have seen in class the broadcast can be integrated with the keyboard. And yes, these radical new experimental forms of digital art are ultimately doomed to obsolescence, and it is inspiring, as you point out, to see how the Whitney has come to the rescue of this important, seminal work by Douglas Davis.

Research Critique: The World’s Longest Collaborative Sentence

ʍıu zɐʍ

Sunday, Sep 17, 2017 - 07:13:45 pm

@ CHEESE

“MICROSOFT ARE THE ANTI CHRISTS”

   The world’s longest drunk sentence is exactly as stated on the tin. To be honest, i don’t really have much to say about the entire article, save a portion of it which grew in size exponentially. I’m also not really sure what the point of it was considering that psychography Read more →

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Winzaw, glad to see you have a comment window! Interestingly, you avoided commenting and analyzing the work in the first section, but actually did a good job, and an accurate one, explain the work in the third paragraph. I not sure why you felt you had nothing to say when in fact you did! This is a great statement:
Instead of having one single mind spouting everything in his or her mind, we have people from all works of life, spouting their inner thoughts anonymously. 
This was precisely the idea of the piece, nothing more, nothing less. Now if you think about it, how is this at all different from the spouting of inner thoughts on social media, except in fact they are anonymous. In fact, the Whitney Museum did provide a frame of reference, and a good one at that, talking about how the viewer could contribute to an evolving artwork, which was an entirely new idea at the time. In this case, an important museum had gone to the trouble if giving context to what has turned out to be a historic work of net art, even if it does appear to be without a point.

Research Critique - The World’s Longest Collaborative Sentence

Joan

Sunday, Sep 17, 2017 - 06:06:59 pm

@ Joan

Douglas Davis is a new media artist known for his satellite video performances and interactive websites. He experimented extensively with advanced and traditional technology, linking people (mostly in the 80s & 90s, with little access to the internet) to the third space. Some of his most notable works include The Last Nine Minutes, where he attempts to physically interact from Read more →

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You brought up a very interesting point: whereas World Longest Collaborative Sentence was originally intended to go on forever and ever, a single sentence co-authored by multiple participants, in fact, the world came to end because the technology became outdated and was no longer active as a live work of net art. However, the Whitney saved the piece from the digital junkyard, as it were, bringing it back to life, more or less. It is in fact now largely a historic relic and a document of a fantastical idea to use the Web in its most daring form and function. Great research.

Research Critique: The World's Longest Drunk Sentence

Ong Zi Feng

Saturday, Sep 16, 2017 - 09:00:20 pm

@ Basics

Throughout this work of Douglas Davis, the scroll wheel on my mouse worked particularly hard. Good job scroll wheel, good job.

I really like the ending for me in The World’s Longest Collaborative Sentence as I’m unable to click the next page due to the black screen at the end(not sure why), the font size just gets bigger and bigger and it Read more →

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I really like your comment that "Microsoft word developed Artificial Intelligence, got drunk and having chatter with itself non-stop". I feel that the result would look similar to how The World’s Longest Collaborative Sentence will look. I was just wondering if the medium of the input would matter. Will the change of input allow another way of the viwers experiencing it? Probably? I feel that if the machine were to write it out on a paper, the context and experience would change entirely although the input is the same. It would be a tangible and there will be a certain kind of fascination to it. If it was printed on paper and it will keep writing, I think it would be spectacular for viewers to see the sheer length of the paper as compared to the digital form where views only scroll the pages and view. (not alot of impact) Overall, I really like how you have thought of the AI perspective of the input and also addressing the medium. It is a remarkable read! Excellent!
Brilliant Wind! Wow, you really got this piece, very impressive. I like your comment about how the writer/reader has no control over what comes before, or what comes after, rather is part of a continuous flow of information. And isn't that the way we experience media today? In social media, we are constantly super-participating in multi-threaded collective conversations that continue and flow and sometimes never stop. That is the nature of our media consumption, and Douglas Davis understood that in 1994! Also, great comparison to Hole in Space, in which the viewers are also communicating with themselves, and where the content is not about the specific conversation, but rather how the medium functions. In a sense both Douglas Davis and Kit G. and Sherrie R. are social designers, creating works that involve social interaction as the content of the work.

Research Critique: The World’s Longest Collaborative Sentence by Douglas Davis (1994)

BAO

Saturday, Sep 16, 2017 - 08:58:27 pm

@ BAO

After knowing about this ongoing project, I too went be part of the sentence. I found out that there was no regulators, no rules, no blocks and no body administering the entire commenting section. All of the new comment will be added to the bottom of the page. Before writing my comment. I was reading through some of the Read more →

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Very good! Yes, it is fascinating to see how this medium created such a torrent of unfiltered conversation. Much like we see today in social media. I think the artist and those who participated enjoy, as you point out, the opportunity to say whatever they want about any subject of their choosing. That is, in essence, the expression of freedom of speech carried out in the very public space of the Web. Good point in your comparison with BOLD3RRR, in that it is a broadcast piece that is distributed to the viewer, whereas, Collaborative Sentence is created by and for other viewers, a more socially-constructed artwork. The only thing missing from your research critique is a discussion of the assigned essay, which discuss the conservation of the piece. Make sure you reference the reading in each of the research critiques.

Research Critique: The World’s Longest Collaborative Sentence by Douglas Davis (1994)

Val Lay

Saturday, Sep 16, 2017 - 03:40:22 pm

@ ◢ ◤

The huge difference between broadcast TV and the Web is the keyboard. With that people can say anything; they have full expressive capacity.

This quote by Douglas David resonated exactly with my thoughts on the whole piece of constructing the world’s longest sentence – people were free to put anything. ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING – that I find it daunting.

I see it as Read more →

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Beautiful piece. I think you really caught the pure poetry and force of unleashing the participants inner-craziness in contributing to this unfiltered, collective writing experiment. Yes, it goes wild and dark and in all sorts of impossible directions, but like you say, it is a continuous historic running sentence that is as long as your life. Well, there were several years it was inactive, but truthfully, the work is a long arc of socially-mediated conversation. Excellent research.

Desktop Mise-en-Scene - OBS Experience

Su Hwee Lim

Saturday, Sep 16, 2017 - 03:39:52 pm

@ Hwee's

Video: https://www.facebook.com/suhwee/videos/10155065521923403/

The OBS live stream is something that I really like to play with. There is filters and effect when combing them together it can create bizarre and interesting visuals. Before the streaming, I when online to search to learn more about this programme. I came across this youtube video with green screen effect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEAM37uQvlY

I think it was really interesting those effects Read more →

Categories: Micro-Project
Excellent experimentation with OBS, beautiful work, and I can see you are very serious about your desktop broadcasting. And thanks for getting this in with everything going on.

Research Critique: The World's First Collaborative Sentence

Mirei Shirai

Friday, Sep 15, 2017 - 08:29:56 pm

@ Mirei's Studio

The idea itself of the art piece is quite simple. Anyone through the web (the original version allowed participation via Fax and E-mail as well) could participate into the artwork, and the aim of the piece is to create a very long collaborative sentence from participation. The participants can write anything as long as they exclude period – while Davis Read more →

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Sorry, I seemed to have overlooked your post, just now reviewing. Very interesting observation of how the World's Longest Collaborative Sentence relates to today's social media practices and articulations. And I was particularly impressed by your observation of how people today have expanded the vocabulary and formatting using more up to date font capabilities. I guess you could say it's like the difference between black & white and color television. This is what I wanted students to understand, that no matter how crazy this piece appears to be, it was no more crazier, maybe less so, than what people are writing today on Facebook. Today, the writings also come out as stream-of-consciousness.

Desktop mise en scene - my experience on OBS

Isaac Chu

Friday, Sep 15, 2017 - 04:42:43 pm

@ Chuwypotter

(click on image to view live video)

The other world

INITIAL IDEA My initial idea was to interact with my other quadrants. I pre-recorded one quadrant and wanted to use it as a base to refer to when I interact. (see top left video). The idea was to experiment and see myself exist in two time dimensions, meaning one when I was Read more →

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