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Joshua Davis (born 1971) is an American artist, designer, and
technologist producing public and private works for companies,
collectors, and institutions. Davis is renowned for pioneering an
original method of computational, generative-art known as Dynamic
Abstraction. »Davis explores the technical and aesthetic limits of
software programs Flash and Illustrator to generate unique visual
compositions according to rules-based, randomized processes.«
(Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, »National Design
Triennial: Design Life Now«, 2006)

Thursday | 04:00 PM | Hall

Each year I pick a new theme and explore that theme to push myself to
change and explore new work. TYPO Berlin gave me the theme of SPACE
and decided that this would be my theme for 2009. What does »Space«
mean? Outer Space? Defining our own Space? Running out of Space? The
Spacing of objects? The relationship between the Space between
objects? Are we alone, or are we all connected? The theme of Space is
vague enough to experiment with work that encompasses some literal
exploration and some more abstract exploration based on this theme. In
my presentation I'll walk you through my process into some threads of
this theme and see what kind of unexpected results we can come up
with.