Joshua Davis
artist.
Joshua Davis is an American designer, technologist, author, and visual artist. Creator of praystation.com, which won the 2001 Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica, he was an early advocate of open-source software, sharing its source code publicly. Davis also contributed to the visualization of IBM’s Watson for Jeopardy! project in 2011, where IBM’s Watson DeepQA computer made history by defeating the TV quiz show’s two foremost all-time champions. His work is in the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt Design Museum and was featured in the 2006 National Design Triennial. He has spoken at TED and 99U about algorithmic image-making. His art has been exhibited at venues including the Tate Modern, Ars Electronica, Design Museum London, Centre Pompidou, ICA London, and MoMA PS1, New York.
From The Metamagic of Mathematics, August 2024
