Joshua Davis (web designer)
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Joshua Davis in his studio December 7th 2012, working on the "Forty Thieves" exhibition
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| Born |
Joshua Schmidt June 13, 1971 San Diego, California |
| Residence | Mineola, New York |
| Education |
Columbine High School Marina High School Pratt Institute |
| Occupation | Designer, artist, technologist, writer, professor, lecturer |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Notable work |
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| Home town | Littleton, Colorado |
| Spouse(s) | Melissa Lockhart (m. 2000) |
| Children | Kelly Ann Davis |
| Parent(s) | David Davis Mary Beckmann |
| Awards | Prix Ars Electronica 2001 Golden Nica for "Net Vision / Net Excellence” |
| Website | joshuadavis |
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Joshua Davis (born June 13, 1971) is an American designer, technologist, author and 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.
Since 1995, Joshua Davis has made a career as an image maker using programming. He writes his own code to produce interactions with users and generate visual compositions according to rule-based, randomized processes.
Davis was an early web designer. He was introduced to the internet by a design student friend at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he studied illustration and art history. After a year of working on illustration by day and programming at night, Davis ran out of cash and was offered a job writing HTML for Pratt’s web site. He dropped out of Pratt in his junior year to work in the new field of design technology.
His website, Praystation.com, which he would use to exhibit new design work and experiments, was one of the first to offer open source Flash files.
The second year of Praystation.com was compiled into a CD-ROM called PrayStation Hardrive, which included source files, photos and miscellaneous items that Joshua Davis worked on during that time, distributed in limited quantities by IdN magazine. The disc included a 32-page booklet and was packaged in a plastic casing modeled after the PlayStation 2.
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