{"data":{"id":"8519","type":"artist","attributes":{"id":8519,"topgoose_id":6271,"tms_id":8519,"display_name":"Joshua Davis","sort_name":"Davis Joshua","display_date":"1971–","begin_date":"1971","end_date":"0","biography":"\u003cp class=\"large\"\u003eJoshua Davis (b. 1971; San Diego, California) is a designer, technologist, author, and visual artist in new media. He is best known as the creator of praystation.com, winner of the Prix Ars Electronica 2001 Golden Nica for Net Vision / Net Excellence. He was an early adopter of open-source software, offering the source code of the praystation.com composition and animation developments to the public. His work was featured in the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum’s 2006 National Design Triennial, and he has spoken at TED and Adobe 99U conferences about his career in algorithmic image making and open-source software.\u003c/p\u003e","on_view":true,"artport":true,"biennial":false,"collection":true,"ulan_id":null,"wikidata_id":"Q6289754","created_at":"2023-11-17T18:10:32.128-05:00","updated_at":"2026-04-04T07:03:01.540-04:00","links":{"artworks":"/api/artists/8519/artworks","exhibitions":"/api/artists/8519/exhibitions"}}}}