Joshua Davis

Joshua Davis is a renowned American designer, author and new media artist who has used programming since 1995 to create user interactions and generate visually striking compositions through rule-based, randomized processes. He played a key role in designing the visualization for IBM's Watson and has received numerous accolades. His work has been featured at institutions such as the Tate Modern, Ars Electronica, Design Museum London, Centre Pompidou, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and is part of the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Davis has lectured globally since 2000 and has spoken at conferences including TED and 99U, discussing his career in algorithmic image making and open source ideologies. His work as a graphic designer and artist has led to collaborations with music groups such as Tool, Deadmau5 and Phantogram. Davis’s distinctive fusion of human creativity and machine computation has produced compelling, singular works that have made him a legend in the field of digital art.