Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 7: Net Era (1990s)

1998

Joshua Davis releases ps0.praystation.v0

Invention · Top Moment

A screen from ps0.praystation.v0, Joshua Davis's first version of praystation.com, with the pixel-lettered PRAYSTATION wordmark over an orange game-derived composition.
A screen from ps0.praystation.v0, Joshua Davis's first version of praystation.com, with the pixel-lettered PRAYSTATION wordmark over an orange game-derived composition. Joshua Davis, ps0.praystation.v0, 1998. Courtesy the artist, Joshua Davis Studios.

Flash creative coder pioneer Joshua Davis released ps0.praystation.v0, his website for exhibiting experimental design and art using code, specifically Flash. The site also served as an important community resource for open source code. As a place for artists to both exhibit and learn, praystation.com was critical in the development of the intersection of the Internet, digital art and Mass Media art.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.

Sources

People

Joshua Davis

Movements

Flash Art, graphic design, Mass Media Art

Filed under

Ideas
community, creative coding, digital art, education, Flash Art, graphic design, Mass Media Art
Technologies
Flash, Internet, open source
People
Joshua Davis
Works
praystation.com, ps0.praystation.v0

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