Ted Davis is an educator / designer / media artist originally from the United States and based in Basel, Switzerland, where he teaches interaction design and coordinates the UIC/HGK International Master of Design program within the Institute for Digital Communication Environments HGK FHNW. His work and teachings explore the volatility of digital media through glitch and reactivating older ‘new media’ through newer programming means. His open source projects (basil.js, XYscope, P5LIVE, p5.glitch) enable designers to program within Adobe InDesign, render vector graphics on vector displays, collaboratively live code visuals with p5.js, and glitch any media in real-time within the web browser. In 2019, he was a p5.js Contributing Conference participant, joining a working group focused on Music and Code in Performance. In 2021 he received the Basel Media Art Prize (Basler Medienkunstpreis) for p5.glitch and was a Processing Foundation Teaching Fellow. With international exhibits, lectures and workshops, he empowers students to take hold of the computer’s ability to design possibilities beyond that of the hand or mouse.

2022
CREAT[L]IVE CODING
CAAD American University of Sharjah, Virtual

P5LIVE + COCODING Classroom
The Glasgow School of Art, Virtual

2021
CREAT[L]IVE CODING (Keynote Speaker) 
PCD@COIMBRA 2021, Virtual

Insight to creative coding projects
Bits and Atoms, ZHdK Interaction, Zürich

Live Coding with P5LIVE 
NØ SCHOOL, Nevers

if(code && typography)
HMCT, ArtCenter College of Design, Virtual

net.art projects 
BROWSERFEST2021, Virtual

P5LIVE for learning code remotely
Learning To Teach Creative Technologies Remotely, Virtual

2020
Affordances of Affordable Digital to Analog Conversion 
Vectorhack Festival 2020, Virtual

Recent Works
ZHdK Interaction Design FIBI Lecture Series, Virtual

P5LIVE
Co-Lab @ Duke University, Virtual

2019
XYscope 
ECAL, Lausanne

Using + Misusing Tools
WELTFORMAT Festival, Luzern

P5LIVE 
NØ SCHOOL, Nevers

Presentation of custom software and media works.
NKNU, Kaohsiung; NTNU, Taipei 

CREAT{L}IVE CODING
HfG, Karlsruhe

Images + Media w/ Michael Renner 
Chicago; Cincinnati; Boston; Rochester

basil.js
Interacive Week 2019 @ PJAIT, Warsaw

XYscope 
Processing Community Day, Basel

2018
Expanded Typography
MOTYF 2018, Dublin

XYscope
Vector Hack Festival, Zagreb

XYscope
CVM Symposium 2018 on Visual Music, Sonoma State University

Exhibiting Group Artists Talk
Lücke @ Vebikus Kunsthalle, Schaffhausen 

Glitch tools + XYscope
RE:FRAG, Paris

2017
Artist Talk w/ Astrid + Ephraim Wegner
REGIONALE 18 @ E-WERK, Freiburg

New + Newer Media: Alternative Outputs
Typojanchi Biennale, Seoul

Panel discussion on defining design practices
Practice Maneuvers @ UIC School of Design, Chicago

2016
Presentation of works
MA Design Talks @ HSLU, Luzern

Kinetic Typography by Gesture
Typojanchi Biennale, Seoul

basil.js + recent works
PaTI, Paju Typography Institute, Seoul

2022
CDP: Creative, Live, and Co-Coding
Computational Design Practices
AIGA Design Educators Community

2021
Graphic Design in the Post-Digital Age
A survey of practices fuelled by creative coding
Onomatopee 215

P5LIVE: Walking Through a Collaborative p5.js Environment for Live Coding
Processing Foundation, medium.com

H.o.Me. - Home for Obsolete Media 
Christoph Merian Verlag

Transformations in Typography Through the Medium of the Screen
PJAIT

2019
Ted Davis: teaching “new and newer media” at NØ School Nevers. 
July 16, 2019, makery.info

2017
XYscope – 2017 Highlight and Favorite 
CREATIVE APPLICATIONS NETWORK

NEW + NEWER MEDIA
Essay written with Stefanie Bräuer 
Neshan 40, Interaction Design Issue

2016
Interview on works and Typojanchi Workshop
Design Magazine CA, November ‘16

Laser Letters – Typography meets media interaction at The Basel School of Design
CREATIVE APPLICAIONS NETWORK
creativeapplications.net

HOLO 2 – Generative Stream made with basil.js
CreativeApplications.Net publication

2015
100 beste Plakate 14
Deutschland Österreich Schweiz
Verlag Hermann Schmidt

The Art of Archiving Digital Media
Ortszeit – Aufzeichnungen der HGK FHNW 2014
Christoph Merian Verlag

2014
Interfacing CBIR: Designing Interactive Widgets to Query Attribute Data in Face Image Retrieval
HCII 2014 DUXU Conference Proceedings,
Springer Verlag

2013
Technik: InDesign Generativ – Spread on basil.js
PAGE Magazine, June ‘13

2012
Finden Sie den Fehler – Highlight of TEXT2IMAGE
weave magazine, Dec. ‘12

Report of ZKM App-Art-Award exhibit – confaBOT
art – DAS KUNSTMAGAZIN, Sept. ‘12

2011
Precise Mishandling of the Digital Image Structure
HCII 2011 DUXU Conference Proceedings,
Springer Verlag

Convert text to image using JPEG corruption
CREATIVE APPLICAIONS NETWORK
creativeapplications.net

2012–2014
Design Lead des SNF DORE geförderten Projektes „Visual Search +“ (New Approaches to Content Based Image Retrieval) (13DPD3_136840)

2022
“COCODING Classroom II“ 
Lehrfonds, FHNW (2022–2023)

2021
p5.glitch
Basel Media Art Prize (Basler Medienkunstpreis)

“P5LIVE – COCODING Classroom“ 
Lehrfonds, FHNW (2021 – 2022)

Processing FoundationTeaching Fellowship

2017
Data visualization
Sitterwerk Kunstbibliothek, St. Gallen

2015
Audio/Visual generative work (FORMBIT) 
Immersive Lab, ICST ZHdK, Zürich

2013
Data visualization
Sitterwerk Kunstbibliothek, St. Gallen

P5LIVE
https://p5live.org/

glitch.ext
https://github.com/ffd8/GLITCH.ext

p5.glitch
https://p5.glitch.me/

XYscope
https://teddavis.org/xyscope/

leesuhzhoo
https://github.com/ffd8/leesuhzhoo

oscillation sandbox
https://ffd8.github.io/oscillation-sandbox/

QUANTIZATION IN MOTION
http://ffd8.org/qim/

FORMBIT
http://immersivelab.zhdk.ch/?page_id=1234

basil.js
https://basiljs.ch/

Laser Letters
http://www.creativeapplications.net/processing/laser-letters-typography-meets-media-interaction-at-the-basel-school-of-design/

FORMBIT
http://immersivelab.zhdk.ch/?page_id=1234

Glitch Class Teachings
http://dusie.ch/glitchclass

Projected Book Movement
https://vimeo.com/204819203

THERMAL PHOTOBOOTHS
https://vimeo.com/203363155
https://vimeo.com/116029779

QUANTIZATION IN MOTION
http://ffd8.org/qim/

youtube.pawgorithm
http://youtube.pawgorithm.com

COCODING Classroom
https://cocodingclassroom.cc/

FILM + DESIGN visual archive
https://filmdesign.glitch.me/ 

Audio Data
https://github.com/ffd8/audio-data 

sentilyzer
https://github.com/ffd8/sentilyzer 

CLI for Artists + Designers
https://ffd8.github.io/cli-for-artists-and-designers/ 

media_viewer
https://github.com/ffd8/media_viewer 

jpg_viewer
https://github.com/ffd8/jpg_viewer 

audio2basiljs
https://github.com/ffd8/audio2basiljs 

slidir
https://github.com/ffd8/slidir 

audioFrames
https://github.com/ffd8/audioFrames 

HEXPLODER
https://github.com/ffd8/HEXPLODER

LASER LETTERS
https://vimeo.com/177851530
https://vimeo.com/274485191
http://www.creativeapplications.net/processing/laser-letters-typography-meets-media-interaction-at-the-basel-school-of-design/

audiographic_alphabet
https://github.com/ffd8/audiographic_alphabet

Reactive-Recode
https://reactiverecode.glitch.me/
https://reactiverecode-ba19.glitch.me/
https://reactiverecode-ba20.glitch.me/
https://reactiverecode-ba21.glitch.me/

p5-tools
https://p5-tools.glitch.me/
https://p5-t00ls.glitch.me/

Glitch Class Teachings
http://dusie.ch/glitchclass

2022
DCT ENCRYPTION STATION w/ Rosa Menkman
GETXOPHOTO International Image Festival, Getxo

2021
HeK Net Works
HeK, Haus der elektronischen Künste, Virtual

H.o.Me (Home for Obsolete Media) 
Kunsthaus Langenthal, Langenthal

2019
Regionale 20
Städtischen Galerie im Stapflehus, Weil am Rhein

Designing Tools
Weltformat Graphic Design Festival, Luzern

Swiss Design, Basel in Taipei 
NTNU, Taipei

Performing Media
Indiana University South Bend, South Bend

2018
MOTYF Festival
dlr LexIcon, Dún Laoghaire, Dublin

#ANTI18
Athens Biennale 2018, Athens

Lücke – Leerstelle zwischen Präsenz und Absenz 
Hebel 121, Basel

Out of Shape
Kunsthalle Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden

Vector Hack Festival 
Greta, Zagreb

Lücke – Container: Vakuum + Möglichkeitsraum 
Kunsthaus L6, Freiburg

Lücke – Systemfehler durch Irrtum und Defekt 
VEBIKUS Kunsthalle, Schaffhausen

2017
Regionale 18
HeK, Basel; E–Werk, Freiburg; L6, Freiburg

Jungkunst 17 
Winterthur

Mohm (Body)
Typojanchi 5th Typography Biennale, Seoul
display this play DOCK, Basel

2016
Digital Abstraction
HeK, Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel

2015
REGIONALE16 Kunstraum Florenz, Basel

https://teddavis.org/
https://instagram.com/teddavisdotorg
https://github.com/ffd8
https://vimeo.com/ffd8