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^[2] when the recordings were released online and went viral.^[3]

In 2012 his project The Composites became one of the most visited Tumblrs of the year.^[4] As Davis told the BBC, The Composites used "forensic art software, descriptive prose, with crowd sourced feedback, to create portraits of literary characters."^[5] The Atlantic called The Composites "Murakami meets CSI."^[6]

From 2008 to 2010^[7] he was president of the indie record label Blocks Recording Club.^{[citation needed]}

After relocating to Brooklyn with his wife, the novelist Emily Schultz, 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.^[8]^[9] When Schultz regained the rights in 2019, she and Davis produced^[10] a scripted podcast adaptation starring Madeline Zima and Rob Belushi.

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