Joshua Davis
1971–
Joshua 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.
Introduction
Joshua Davis (born June 13, 1971) is an American 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.
Davis had a role in designing the visualization of IBM's Watson, the intelligent computer program capable of answering questions, for the quiz show Jeopardy.
His work has been inducted into the Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, National Design Triennial 2006 “Design Life Now”, and he has spoken at the TED and 99U conferences about his career in algorithmic image making and open-source software.
Wikidata identifier
Q6289754
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Exhibitions & projects
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