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 record ↗Interviews
The Collective Podcast offers a long-form conversation about Davis’s path through coding, design, and digital art.
The Collective Podcast ↗The Sak’s artist Q&A addresses Davis’s computational practice and dynamic abstraction.
Beyond the Craft ↗Press and criticism
Wired reports on Davis’s generative practice and the productive struggle involved in directing algorithmic output.
Fighting With Generative Artwork ↗Wired’s later note embeds a festival presentation and highlights Davis’s iterative selection among generated results.
Generative analog crowdsourcing ↗A conference review describes Davis’s randomized graphics and the relationship between artistic and programming skill.
Flash in the Can ↗Museums 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 archive ↗Ars Electronica’s person record connects Davis with PrayStation and the 2001 Golden Nica.
Ars Electronica person record ↗The archived festival preview places Davis in the program for Ars Electronica 2001.
Festival 2001 preview ↗Galleries and exhibitions
Frieze records the dates and Los Angeles venue for The V01D, an exhibition by Joshua Davis (Praystation).
The V01D ↗NFT Now visits the making of The VO1D, connecting code-generated images with hand-painted physical canvases.
Behind the Drop ↗Essays, 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 profile ↗A keynote synopsis presents Davis’s argument that success can inhibit experimentation and creative growth.
Escaping Success ↗Profiles 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.v4 ↗Video
Skillshare’s course record outlines Davis’s lessons on generative animation and publishing programmed graphics.
Programming Graphics II ↗Research 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 Generative ↗Graphika Manila’s 2025 program lists Davis and characterizes his practice through generative art and programming.
Graphika Manila program ↗