Joshua Davis / PrayStation: links
Selected records, interviews, criticism, exhibitions, teaching resources, and videos situating Joshua Davis’s computational practice.
In the AB[500]: Art Blocks
Art Blocks maintains an artist record linking Joshua Davis / PrayStation to his platform projects.
Art Blocks artist recordInterviews
The Collective Podcast offers a long-form conversation about Davis’s path through coding, design, and digital art.
The Collective PodcastThe Sak’s artist Q&A addresses Davis’s computational practice and dynamic abstraction.
Beyond the CraftPress and criticism
Wired reports on Davis’s generative practice and the productive struggle involved in directing algorithmic output.
Fighting With Generative ArtworkWired’s later note embeds a festival presentation and highlights Davis’s iterative selection among generated results.
Generative analog crowdsourcingA conference review describes Davis’s randomized graphics and the relationship between artistic and programming skill.
Flash in the CanMuseums and institutions
The Ars Electronica archive identifies PrayStation and Joshua Davis in connection with the 2001 Golden Nica for Net Vision / Net Excellence.
Ars Electronica archiveArs Electronica’s person record connects Davis with PrayStation and the 2001 Golden Nica.
Ars Electronica person recordThe archived festival preview places Davis in the program for Ars Electronica 2001.
Festival 2001 previewGalleries and exhibitions
Frieze records the dates and Los Angeles venue for The V01D, an exhibition by Joshua Davis (Praystation).
The V01DNFT Now visits the making of The VO1D, connecting code-generated images with hand-painted physical canvases.
Behind the DropEssays, talks and podcasts
FITC’s 28 Years Of random() situates Davis’s shift from canvas to programming in 1995 and surveys his generative practice.
28 Years Of random()OFFSET profiles Davis as a designer, technologist, and new-media artist associated with open-source experimentation.
OFFSET speaker profileA keynote synopsis presents Davis’s argument that success can inhibit experimentation and creative growth.
Escaping SuccessProfiles and archives
An archived PrayStation project page documents the 2001 ps2.praystation.v4 work and summarizes Davis’s rule-based image-making practice.
ps2.praystation.v4Video
Skillshare’s course record outlines Davis’s lessons on generative animation and publishing programmed graphics.
Programming Graphics IIResearch and teaching
A University of California, Santa Barbara teaching text cites ps2.praystation.v4 while discussing tools and precedents of generative art.
The Tools of GenerativeGraphika Manila’s 2025 program lists Davis and characterizes his practice through generative art and programming.
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