Brian Joseph Davis is a Canadian-born filmmaker and digital artist.
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Biography
Davis began exhibiting in the mid-aughts, working at the intersection of digital technology, memory, and pop culture. In 2006 he built a public recording studio at a gallery and paid visitors to sing the Beatles song "
Yesterday" from memory. Davis' "Yesterduh" garnered international coverage when the recordings were released online and went viral.
In 2012 his project The Composites became one of the most visited Tumblrs of the year. As Davis told the
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current sta ...
, The Composites used "forensic art software, descriptive prose, with crowd sourced feedback, to create portraits of literary characters." ''
The Atlantic
''The Atlantic'' is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C. It features articles on politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science.
It was founded in 185 ...
'' called The Composites "
Murakami meets
CSI."
From 2008 to 2010 he was president of the indie record label Blocks Recording Club.
After relocating to Brooklyn with his wife, the novelist
Emily Schultz
Emily Schultz (born 1974) is an American fiction writer raised in Canada and now living in Brooklyn, New York.
Life and career
During an onstage interview with Margaret Atwood, Schultz described how her own family settled in Canada from Michig ...
, where the pair co-founded the literary website
Joyland: A hub for short fiction. In 2016 Davis collaborated with Schultz to
adapt her novel ''The Blondes'' for AMC Networks' Shudder streaming platform. When Schultz regained the rights in 2019, she and Davis produced
a scripted podcast adaptation starring
Madeline Zima
Madeline Rose Zima (born September 16, 1985) is an American actress. She portrayed Grace Sheffield on the CBS sitcom ''The Nanny'' (1993–1999), Mia Lewis on the Showtime comedy drama series '' Californication'' (2007–2011), and Gretchen B ...
and
Rob Belushi.
References
External links
Official website
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Living people
1975 births
Canadian humorists
Canadian male novelists
Canadian male short story writers
21st-century Canadian short story writers
21st-century Canadian novelists
21st-century Canadian male writers