About Josh Bevan

I'm a screenwriter, film director and technical artist. I've made my living as a film colorist, editor, sound mixer, VFX artist, game developer, programming teacher, and as a full stack engineer integrating web tech and machine learning. I believe that the ideal state of being is as a radical hybrid, and that the boundaries between the engineer, artist and critical thinker is an illusion meant to be broken.

A storyteller

My stories are filled with future histories involving unheard-of flavors of virtual reality and speculative information science. I ruminate on transmigration, emergence. dissimulation and hallucination, the urge to self-annihilation and self-defeat, and mythologies of artificial intelligence explosions and the deep future. My latest writings concern death obsession, high dimensional attractors, and punk queerness and sexuality in the VRChat and Hyperpop scenes. Since 2017 I've been building bespoke generative machine learning models with uncommon capabilities as a form of conceptual art evoking some of the themes listed above.

An engineer

I'm a language polyglot, but my roots are deepest in web tech and I've had some great opportunities to build entire full web stacks, from building clusters with volume persistence and building peer-to-peer networks, to styling beautiful and responsive UIs. Working for R-Shief I built machine-learning based natural language processing pipelines that power web-based data visualizations, and for my game work I do all things shader: geometry shaders, compute shaders, and post-processing shaders!

A cool human

I'm a sci-fi superfan, an audiophile, lover of all films old and transcendental, run an anarchical book club, and have an encyclopedic knowledge of indie games. My useless talents include gloving and finger-picked guitar improvisation, which you can find some examples of on my Instagram.

designed with love <3