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Joshua Davis (designer)
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Joshua Davis (born June 13, 1971) is an American designer, technologist, author, and visual artist in new media.
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![]() Davis in his studio December 7th 2012, working on the "Forty Thieves" exhibition | |
Born | Joshua Schmidt (1971-06-13) June 13, 1971 (age 53) San Diego, California, United States |
Education | Columbine High School Marina High School Pratt Institute |
Occupation(s) | Designer, artist, technologist, writer, professor, lecturer |
Years active | 1994–present |
Notable work | Web:
Installation:
Music:
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Spouse | 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 |
He is best known as the creator of praystation.com, winner of the Prix Ars Electronica 2001 Golden Nica for "Net Vision / Net Excellence”.[1] He was an early adopter of open-source software, offering the source code of the praystation.com composition and animation developments to the public.[2]
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.[3]
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.[4][5]