Joshua DavisDerek Knierim

Intro to Digital2/11/11

About• Born June 13, 1971

• Designer• Studio Location• Travel• “Flash To the Core”

Process• Draw “icons” in Illustrator (4 days)– Text, organic elements, forms taken from nature

• Write program (4 days, depending)• “Wait” (few weeks-a month)– Time frame for “waiting for that perfect composition, that beautiful accident”

Exploring new techniques through

programming• Using media that is unfamiliar or experimental or even (seemingly) useless

• Keeps things interesting for all parties concerned

• Failing a lot

Loss of control…

• Pollock as an idea/gesture• Paint leaving the brush• Creating Davis’ gesture• Medium has it’s own attitudes, moods, compositions etc.

• Letting go of the reigns and giving the elements “coke”

“Art will always mutate into something else”

• Living organisms/icons

• Program movement on nature (flowing water , wind, insect movements)– Millions of iterations

– Millions of compositions

Saturated surroundings• Know our surroundings too well

• Minute design elements

• Japan– “Hard to see your environment, when you are in your environment… amen!”

Work Like Hell

• Keeping motivated through themes– Exploring “broken” or unfamiliar media (programs)

– Loss of control– Leaving your “familiar environment for a new unfamiliar one”

• Who notices• There are those that talk about working and those who work

Q.B.N . Sessions Presents Joshua DavisVideo (3:54) explains some of Joshua Davis’ process.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rCO4pcFsfw