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ANNOUNCING! We're excited to present We Live On by Deru

Featuring three robotic player pianos, this immersive performance puts us into a constellation of sound blurring the lines between performance, installation, and memory.

📅 July 26 | 8 PM
Tix: https://grayarea.org/event/deru-we-will-live-on/

We're excited to announce early access to our newest workshop, 𝑩𝒊𝒐𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄: 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝑫𝒓𝒖𝒎 𝑴𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝑴𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒅𝒚, led by artist and researcher Barbara Nerness (@soupbetweenyourears) with Gray Area Research Fellow Anastasia Chernysheva (@biofeedback_and_arts).

Bluesky is too earnest

Happy Pride

DWeb for Creators Project Salon Join us for the DWeb for Creators Project Salon, where participants will present lightning talks on their research for the DWeb for Creators course. Participants’ work spans Cultural Memory, Community Networks, and Decentralized Tools. Projects will showcase decentralized approaches to data sovere...

Join us for final presentations from our DWeb for Creators Intensive, featuring projects on Cultural Memory, Community Networks, & decentralized tools like IPFS, blockchain, & mesh networks.

📅 June 18, 2025 | 10AM PT
📍Online
Free RSVP:
https://grayarea.org/event/dweb-for-creators-project-salon/

Happy Pauline Oliveros' birthday to those who celebrate.

Federal Arts Funding Withdrawn from Gray Area Last Friday, Gray Area received confirmation that the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has canceled our $50,000 grant, which had been awarded to support this year’s Gray Area Festival. This puts ...

If you have $10 to spare, @grayarea.org is trying to make up for a cancelled NEA grant to organize its annual festival, one of the few in the US “addressing the most urgent topics in technology and society through radical artistic inquiry.” Give if you can! ⬇️

Jonathon Keats: Experimental Philosopher Podcast Episode · RadicalxChange(s) · 05/16/2025 · 1h 8m

ON TIMEKEEPING, NATURE & DEMOCRACY

Matt Prewitt talks with Jonathon Keats about the philosophy of timekeeping and the promise of alternative systems such as the river clock

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...

YouTube video by Funding the Commons Where Does Knowledge Come From? Funding Informational Commons – San Francisco 2025

My talk with Matt Prewitt @radxchange.bsky.social "Where does knowledge come from?" @fundingthecommons.bsky.social SF 03/16/25; the beginning of some ideas around how funding mechanics relate to knowledge production and innovation... m.youtube.com/watch?v=CiJB...

🌍 Exhibition Opening: CARBONIVORE

For Earth Day 2025, Gray Area presents Carbonivore, a new exhibition by the Missing Objects Library, a collaboration between artists Asma Kazmi and Jill Miller.

📅 April 22 · 6–8PM
📍 Gray Area Gallery

RSVP: grayarea.org/visit/gallery/

New In-Person Workshop!
𝘽𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙏𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙬: 𝙍𝙚𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙃𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘾𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚
with experimental philosopher, artist, and writer Jonathon Keats

📆 May 4, 2025 | 1–4 PM
Spots are limited. Sign up today:
grayarea.org/course/build...

SPECULATIONS ON CAPTURE | Film Screening with Morehshin Allahyari in Conversation with Usha Iyer

Gray Area presents 🎥 Speculations on Capture, a new film by Morehshin Allahyari. Stick around for a Q&A with Usha Iyer, plus a cocktail hour 🍹✨

Free for members!
Saturday, April 19, 2025
🔗 grayarea.org/event/specul...
Presented with support from the San Francisco Arts Commission.
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Simulation Sessions April 2025 with Chaim Gingold

ANNOUNCING April's Simulation Session, our free monthly event series facilitated by the World Engines Lab, helping sustain our local community of 3D designers, artists, and technologists! This month's speaker:
@cgingold

📅 Monday, April 21 | 6PM

RSVP: grayarea.org/event/simula...

Breadboarding Modular Synthesizers Workshop In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to design basic electronic oscillators with integrated circuits and discrete components. These principals will allow us to synthesize musical sounds from ...

Back by popular demand!
🏗️ 🎹 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐒𝐲𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐬 is a 2-day workshop where you'll build your own DIY synth from scratch.
No experience needed and all materials provided.
📆 Apr 26–27

👉 grayarea.org/course/bread...

Closing out our Creative Code Intensive instructor series is Kate Hollenbach, Gray Area’s Director of Education, who’ll be teaching 4 units in this year’s newly redesigned program.

Meet Alexa Ann Bonomo, one of our expert instructors in the newly redesigned Creative Code Intensive!

Meet Tonz ( @scrollingpistachio ), one of the instructors leading this year’s Creative Code Intensive!

Tonz is an interactive artist creating fantastical transmedia experiences that invite players to playfully dissect social issues.

TOMORROW!! Join us for an Artist Talk & Happy Hour with artist Mélanie Courtinat and explore her interactive game 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓢𝓲𝓻𝓮𝓷, now on view in the Gray Area Gallery. Enjoy drinks, a guided playthrough, and a Q&A moderated by Wade Wallerstein

RSVP: grayarea.org/event/artist...

Bad things don't care if good things stop happening.

We had a very large grant at @grayarea.org in collaboration with @techsoup.bsky.social doing workforce development with creative coding in rural areas that is being cut due these changes.

Tomorrow at 11:00 #FtCSF join myself and Matt Prewitt @radxchange.bsky.social discussing what systems best support innovation and knowledge productions in the commons. @fundingthecommons.bsky.social @internetarchiveca.bsky.social www.fundingthecommons.io/sf-2025

Join Rachel Lim, artist, programmer, and p5.js Editor lead, for a hands-on workshop where you'll explore @processing.org's mission, learn how to contribute to p5.js, and make your first open source contribution!

📅 April 5 | 12–3 PM
📍 Gray Area, SF
✨ All levels welcome

Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice Genetically modified mice have traits geared towards cold tolerance, in step towards modifying elephants

“My overall concern is whether this is a sensible use of resources … As it is, we have some cute-looking hairy mice.”

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Gerd Stern, Beat Era Poet and Multimedia Artist, Dies at 96 An Aquarian Age savant, he was a founder of the artists’ collective USCO, which helped define the 1960s with psychedelic, sensory-overloading installations and performances.

RIP Gerd Stern

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/a...

They left out the part of my quote where I said it's sad when anyone chooses a Christie's auction as their venue for political action.

Honestly relieved they memorialized Aaron Swartz with a statue instead of a zombie AI model.

Bryan Johnston Massacre

Whole Earth Redux

🌍 Announcing: Open Call for Submissions to the Whole Earth Redux 🌏
grayarea.org/initiative/w...
In 2023, Gray Area launched the Whole Earth Index, the publication’s first complete online archive, to make it easier to access the tools, ideas, and practices highlighted in the Catalog.

Gray Area’s Cultural Incubator is back with new opportunities for growing your creative technology practice 🌱Apply by March 7, 2025 to join our 2025 cohort!

-> grayarea.org/create/cultu...