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Joshua Davis / PrayStation: links

Selected records, interviews, criticism, exhibitions, teaching resources, and videos situating Joshua Davis’s computational practice.

18 sources · last updated 2026-07-11

In the AB[500]: Art Blocks

Art Blocks maintains an artist record linking Joshua Davis / PrayStation to his platform projects.

Art Blocks artist record profile · 2021

Interviews

The Collective Podcast offers a long-form conversation about Davis’s path through coding, design, and digital art.

The Collective Podcast interview · 2023

The Sak’s artist Q&A addresses Davis’s computational practice and dynamic abstraction.

Beyond the Craft interview · 2016

Press and criticism

Wired reports on Davis’s generative practice and the productive struggle involved in directing algorithmic output.

Fighting With Generative Artwork criticism · 2007

Wired’s later note embeds a festival presentation and highlights Davis’s iterative selection among generated results.

Generative analog crowdsourcing press · 2008

A conference review describes Davis’s randomized graphics and the relationship between artistic and programming skill.

Flash in the Can review · 2004

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 award archive · 2001

Ars Electronica’s person record connects Davis with PrayStation and the 2001 Golden Nica.

Ars Electronica person record institutional archive · 2001

The archived festival preview places Davis in the program for Ars Electronica 2001.

Festival 2001 preview festival archive · 2001

Galleries and exhibitions

Frieze records the dates and Los Angeles venue for The V01D, an exhibition by Joshua Davis (Praystation).

The V01D exhibition · 2022

NFT Now visits the making of The VO1D, connecting code-generated images with hand-painted physical canvases.

Behind the Drop studio feature · 2022

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() talk · 2023

OFFSET profiles Davis as a designer, technologist, and new-media artist associated with open-source experimentation.

OFFSET speaker profile talk profile · undated

A keynote synopsis presents Davis’s argument that success can inhibit experimentation and creative growth.

Escaping Success keynote commentary · 2014

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 project archive · 2012

Video

Skillshare’s course record outlines Davis’s lessons on generative animation and publishing programmed graphics.

Programming Graphics II course video · undated

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 teaching text · undated

Graphika Manila’s 2025 program lists Davis and characterizes his practice through generative art and programming.

Graphika Manila program conference program · 2025

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