Joshua Davis

Joshua Davis, born in 1971, is an American designer, technologist, author and visual artist working in algorithmic image making and animation. He studied illustration and art history at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and dropped out in his junior year to work in web design. He has made art on the web since 1994. In 1998 he launched PrayStation, a site combining interface design and animation that also released its Flash source files to the public; it won the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica for Net Vision/Net Excellence in 2001. In 2011 he designed the visualization for IBM's Watson. He has also performed chiptune music as Bit Shafter with the netlabel 8bitpeoples. His work has been exhibited at Tate Modern, the Centre Pompidou and the Whitney. In 2024 he collaborated with LIA on CORONATION, shown at Gazelli Art House in London.