Joshua Davis
1971–
Joshua Davis is a New York artist and technologist producing both public and private work on and off the Web. His site praystation.com was the winner of the 2001 Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica in the category “Net Excellence”, the highest honor in international net art and design. He is currently an instructor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and lectures globally on his work, inspirations and motivations.
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
artport
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