Artist Joshua Davis

Joshua Davis is an American artist, designer, and technologist based in New York. He produces both public and private works for collectors, companies, and institutions. He creates his art using Dynamic Abstraction or randomization, a method of computational, generative-art. He uses programs like Flash and Illustrator to generate unique visual compositions according to rules-based, randomized processes.

Davis likes to find patterns in foreign objects and create distorted, hand-drawn samples. He will feed these samples into his Flash engine that spits out a collage. By pushing the space bar he can change the canvas by changing the rules. While there is a great random factor in his art, it is these rules that control the overall piece and limit the results.There are so many random variables that I never get the same design twice,” he notes.

Influenced by Jackson Pollock, an abstract expressionist in the 1940’s, Joshua began experimenting with programming languages in the mid-1990s while studying in Brooklyn. As he learned about programming and design, he began to mix the two. One of the first programs he used was FutureSplash Animator, which became the first version of Flash.

Currently, he is an active professional designer and creative thinker spending his time working with clients, traveling the world speaking at conferences and workshops, building his own creative projects like One Upon a Forest, and teaching as a professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

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