‘Flash’ expert Joshua Davis to speak at CCBC Catonsville

Web designers are familiar with Macromedia’s Flash program as a tool that enables them to deliver dynamic content – i.e. animation, transformations, color and shape changes, etc. – in a static environment. Joshua Davis, one of the world’s leading Flash designers, will be the featured speaker at CCBC Catonsville 1:30 – 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15 in the Fine and Performing Arts Center Theatre (Q building).

Davis is an artist and technologist producing both public and private work on and off the Web. His site ( www.praystation.com) was the winner of the 2001 Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica in the category of “Net Excellence,” the highest honor in international Net art and design. Davis is one of the first national lecturers brought to CCBC by the new School of Applied and Information Technology (SAIT). SAIT offers a vast array of educational options as well as custom-tailored workforce development programs.

Davis attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y., majoring in Communication Design and Illustration, with a minor in Art History. Honored as one of the Internet Professional Publishers Association’s 2000/2001 Ten Most Creative People, Davis is currently an instructor at the School of Visual Arts in New York and lectures globally on his work.

Through his work, Davis wants to “unite, communicate and explore.” His clients include Sony, Motown Records, Jennifer Lopez, Barneys New York, Bad Boy Entertainment, Universal Records, Atlantic Records, Canon USA, Charles Schwab, Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs Innovations and Penguin Publishers. He is a featured contributor to the book New Masters of Flash, Volume 1 (Friends of Ed, Nov. 2000) and author of Flash to the Core: An Interactive Sketchbook (New Riders, July 2002).

For more information on Davis’ appearance at CCBC, contact Erik S. Miller, coordinator of Computer Graphics and Visual Communication, at 443-840-4324 or emiller@ccbcmd.edu .