Celebrate Halloween at Gray Area with a screening of The Bride of Frankenstein and the launch of Shane Denson's (@shanedenson.bsky.social) new book on the Bride of Frankenstein! 📅 October 30 | 6:30 PM 🎟Tix: grayarea.org/event/bride-...

Spots are still open for our newest electronic music workshop: Techno Blueprint! Over 2 days, learn the theory behind techno music and how to emulate classic sound design techniques with stock Ableton instruments and effects 📆 Nov 3 – 5 🕘 6 – 9PM Enroll! grayarea.org/course/techn...

𝙳𝙸𝚂𝙸𝙽𝙸𝙱𝙻𝚄𝙳 𝚃𝙾𝙼𝙾𝚁𝚁𝙾𝚆! Experience 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙪𝙙 by Rachika Nayar and Nina Keith tomorrow during an evening weaving together glitchy, immersive synths, warped piano, and haunting vocals With Sally Decker 📅 Thursday | 7 PM 🎟 Tix:https://grayarea.org/event/rachika-nayar-and-nina-keith-present-disiniblud/

As part of Swissnex's event series LAYERS, Gray Area presents Deep Fakes: A Critical Lexicon of Digital Museology, a talk by Professor Sarah Kenderdine on the unstable boundaries between preservation and simulation RSVP:https://grayarea.org/event/deep-fakes-a-critical-lexicon-of-digital-museology/

This Thursday, experience Disiniblud by Rachika Nayar and Nina Keith! Born from queer kinship, and experimental sound, this record channels their expanding bond and creative partnership 🎟 Tix: https://grayarea.org/event/rachika-nayar-and-nina-keith-present-disiniblud/

Next Friday! Author and artist 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗧𝗲𝗺𝗸𝗶𝗻 comes to Gray Area to launch his book 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙮-𝙁𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙀𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙨. Join us for a talk, cocktails, & a book signing. 📅 10/24 | 5:30 PM 🎟https://grayarea.org/event/book-launch-signing-daniel-temkin-forty-four-esolangs/?preview=true

For its 24th edition, SFEMF brings three nights of experimental sound and live electronic performances to Gray Area! This year’s lineup features artists pushing the limits of sound, software, and performance Get Tix: https://grayarea.org/event/24th-annual-san-francisco-electronic-music-festival/

𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 + 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 Bride of Frankenstein with Shane Denson 🗓 10/30/25 A night of classic horror, film talk, and cocktails. 🎟 https://grayarea.org/event/bride-of-frankenstein-shane-densonbook-launch-film-signing/

Back by popular demand this Fall: 𝘽𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙗𝙤𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙈𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙧 𝙎𝙮𝙣𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙧𝙨 workshop! No previous experience is necessary, and all materials are provided for you! 📆 October 11 – 12 🕘 1:00 – 4:00PM https://grayarea.org/course/breadboarding-modular-synthesizers-workshop/

It's our final day of 𝙅𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙖𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙤𝙣: 𝘾𝙊𝙎𝙈𝙊𝙂𝙀𝙉𝙀𝙎𝙄𝙎! Learn what's in store for this final day of this three-day symposium: https://grayarea.org/event/jordan-belson-cosmogenesis/ 🎥 Allures - 1961, 9 min, 16mm, Color, Sound Video courtesy of the Jordan Belson Estate.

Day 2 of 𝙅𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙖𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙤𝙣: 𝘾𝙊𝙎𝙈𝙊𝙂𝙀𝙉𝙀𝙎𝙄𝙎 begins in a few hours! Experience this full day of music, lectures, and films with Festival passes and individual tickets: https://grayarea.org/event/jordan-belson-cosmogenesis/ 🎥 Raga - 1959 Video courtesy of the Jordan Belson Estate

𝙅𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙖𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙤𝙣: 𝘾𝙊𝙎𝙈𝙊𝙂𝙀𝙉𝙀𝙎𝙄𝙎, starts today! See what's in store for tonight's opening event for our three-day symposium and get tickets: https://grayarea.org/event/jordan-belson-cosmogenesis/ 🎥 Momentum - 1968 Video courtesy of the Jordan Belson Estate.

This Weekend: 𝙅𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙖𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙤𝙣: 𝘾𝙊𝙎𝙈𝙊𝙂𝙀𝙉𝙀𝙎𝙄𝙎, our three-day symposium opening this weekend, presented in partnership with SF Cinematheque and @bampfa.bsky.social https://grayarea.org/event/jordan-belson-cosmogenesis/ 🎥 Meditation - 1971 Courtesy of the Jordan Belson Estate

THIS THURSDAY! Composer and producer Kelly Moran presents a dynamic set featuring brand-new material alongside selections from previous work. With Shipwreck Detective 📅 Thursday, September 25 | 8 PM 🎟 Tickets: https://grayarea.org/event/kelly-moran-live-av/

𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 10/11 – 12/6, 2025 • Online Our popular course with award-winning critical designer, researcher, and artist Caroline Sinders returns! Apply by October 1 ➡️grayarea.org/course/responsible-technology-design-intensive-2025

Thank you all for attending & tuning in to today's talks! See you back at the theater at 9pm for another night of audiovisual performances by Kevin Peter He + FITNESSS, Debit, and Authentically Plastic. See you soon!

Last up is our keynote presentation by Christina Agapakis, an extremely interdisciplinary synthetic biologist working to build more creative and human futures for biotechnology. Can't make it in person? Join us virtually with a virtual pass: https://grayareafestival.io

Up next is technologist Xiaowei R. Wang, whose work explores how the intersections of technology, environmental justice, histories of computation, and ungovernable care shape our shared reality. Can't make it in person? Join us virtually: https://grayareafestival.io

Artist and filmmaker Kevin Peter He is up next, discussing game engines as a performance tool while simulating ecological systems. Can't make it in person? Join us virtually with a virtual pass: https://grayareafestival.io

Up next is Miriam Simun, who will present THE INSTITUTE FOR TRANSHUMANIST CEPHALOPOD EVOLUTION, exploring the future of the human amidst rising seas and accelerating technological change. Can't make it in person? Join us virtually with a virtual pass: https://grayareafestival.io

Next up is micha cárdenas, who will talk about how art shaped by trans, queer, and disabled experiences can confront dehumanization and crisis by imagining new forms of life beyond the human. Can't make it in person? Join us virtually with a virtual pass: https://grayareafestival.io

Scholar, author, and professor Shane Denson @shanedenson.bsky.social, is up now discussing the tension between technology’s drive toward perfection and the embodied realities of glitch, detour, and breakdown Can't make it in person? Join us virtually with a virtual pass: https://grayareafestival.io

Up next! Stephanie Zhang is giving her talk, "Emergent Vessels", exploring her work creating self-assembling sculptures via 3D bioprinting. Can't make it in person? Join us virtually with a virtual pass: https://grayareafestival.io

Day 3 of 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐲 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐚 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓: 𝙏𝙊 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙈𝘼𝙓𝙓 is starting! Researcher and writer Toby Shorin start with a talk that will explore how the body has become the new premise for cultural developments. Join us virtually with a virtual pass: https://grayareafestival.io

Thank you to everyone that came to today's conference! Now on to tonight’s performances featuring Onyx Ashanti, Ash Fure, Briana Marela Lizárraga starting at 9PM. Free for Pass holders/Individual Tickets still available See you there! grayareafestival.io/performances 🎥Onyx Ashanti

Our first day of speakers ends with a keynote presentation by performance artist Stelarc! Join us virtually with a virtual pass to hear him discuss how technological interventions like body hacking are reshaping our understanding of the body, humanity, and what it means to be alive.

Up next: artist, filmmaker, and writer Zach Blas, whose practice explores the philosophies, fantasies, and histories embedded in computational technologies and the industries shaping Silicon Valley’s visions of the future. Join us virtually with a virtual pass: https://grayareafestival.io

Going on a short break! See you in a few minutes for Zach Blas

Closing out this next group of speakers is artist, writer, and educator Alice Bucknell, who will present an immersive look into her expansive worlding practice. Can't make it in person? Join us virtually with a virtual pass: https://grayareafestival.io

Multidisciplinary artist and engineer Xin Liu is live now, with a talk focusing on Cosmic Metabolism and how technological change reshapes both Earth’s systems and our own processes of growth and transformation Join us virtually with a virtual pass: https://grayareafestival.io

Up now is Onyx Ashanti, an artist and designer investigating the blurred line between invention and improvisation, exploring sonocybernetics, cyborgian philosophy, and what performance means when human thought and machine merge Join us with a virtual pass https://grayareafestival.io

Our first group of speakers ends with a talk by choreographer Sydney Skybetter @sydneyskybetter discussing his research on choreorobotic and microgravity performance! Can't make it in person? Join us virtually with a virtual pass: https://grayareafestival.io

Next up is Arvida Byström! Her talk will interrogate the consequences of automated emotional labor by AI. Can't make it in person? Join us virtually with a virtual pass: https://grayareafestival.io

Day 2 of Gray Area Festival 2025 is underway! First up is Salomé Chatriot, discussing how a synthetic 2nd skin can unlock new ways bodies and machines share space, intimacy, and interaction Can't make it in person? Join us virtually with a virtual pass: https://grayareafestival.io/

⚡️ TOMORROW ⚡️ 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐲 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐚 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓: 𝙏𝙊 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙈𝘼𝙓𝙓! opens 𝙁𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙡 𝙊𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙉𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩: Exhibition Opening & Performances Thursday, September 11 | 7:30 PM Gray Area Festival 2025 🦠 September 11–14 🦠 Gray Area / Grand Theater — 2665 Mission St, San Francisco 🔗 grayareafestival.io

🎷🤖This artist hacked his own body to invent a new form of music. Learn more about GAF performer 𝐎𝐧𝐲𝐱 𝐀𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢! Four days of performances, talks, workshops, and an exhibition interrogating corporeal practice and perfection in contemporary technoculture. Sep 11–14 grayareafestival.io

Announcing ✨ Jordan Belson: COSMOGENESIS ✨ Sept 26–28 Presenting newly preserved 16mm films, archival recordings, and talks that explore Belson’s legacy, from the Vortex concerts to his little-seen visual art. 🔗 Tickets: https://grayarea.org/event/jordan-belson-cosmogenesis/

It's happening! Max Cooper On Being 3D AV Tonight and tomorrow in San Francisco — immersive 3D audiovisual performance at Gray Area. 🎟 Last Tickets: https://tickets.grayarea.org/events?category=Multiple-Date%20Event

ONE MONTH! We're excited to present New York-based composer, producer, and pianist, Kelly Moran, as she performs music from her new album, Moves in the Field With Shipwreck Detective (Devanand Bhat) 📅 Thursday, September 25 | 8PM Tix: https://grayarea.org/event/kelly-moran-live-av/

Announcing 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝗪𝐞𝐛 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 📅 11/22–12/16 🌐 ONLINE: Join live from anywhere Create interactive web experiences in a new supportive, project-based course. Apply by 11/8! https://grayarea.org/course/gray-area-creative-code-for-the-web-intensive-2025/

𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐲 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐚 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄! The final day of 𝙏𝙊 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙈𝘼𝙓𝙓! features artist-led workshops pushing the boundaries of embodiment, ecology, AI, and interactive hardware. 🔗 Enroll: https://grayareafestival.io/workshops/

TOMORROW! Don't miss out on a special survey of electronic music, held in celebration of Tom Hall's newest record, Trip Computer! Guests include: r beny, Testu Collective, Amma Ateria, and Sharkiface 📅 Saturday, August 16 | 7 PM 🎟️ Get tickets: https://grayarea.org/event/tom-hall-trip-computer/

Get ready for Max Cooper’s 3D AV tour, On Being — live at Gray Area "Striking performances that are nothing short of pure spectacle" - Resident Advisor. 📅 Wednesday, August 27 with Berry B | 8PM 🌌 Thursday, August 28 with Sara Afshar | 9:30PM 🎟️ Get tix: bit.ly/Max-Cooper-Aug-27-28

ONE MONTH AWAY! Dive into the final part of Marshall McLuhan's seminal work "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man" in Part 3 of our intensive: Understanding Media with Andrew McLuhan! ⏳Wednesday, September 3 – December 10 🕔5pm – 8pm PT / 8pm – 11pm ET 📍Online Enroll: http://bit.ly/45FBgUH

TWO WEEKS OUT! Max Cooper comes to SF for two nights only to present a stunning live 3D audiovisual show for his new record On Being. With Berry B on 8/27, and Sara Afshar on 8/28 📅 8, 27 | 8 PM 🌌 8, 28 | 9:30 PM 🎟️ Get tix: https://tickets.grayarea.org/events?category=Multiple-Date%20Event

THREE WEEKS OUT! Max Cooper brings his stunning 3D audiovisual live show, On Being, to SF for 2 nights. 🎧 Aug 27 w/ Berry B 🌌 Aug 28 w/ Sara Afshar Get tix: 🔗 https://tickets.grayarea.org/events?category=Multiple-Date%20Event

TONIGHT! A violinist and a quantum computer perform live in a groundbreaking event with composer Eduardo Miranda. Explore the future of music through AI, quantum tech, and live Q&A. 🎟️ Tix: https://grayarea.org/event/exploring-quantum-computer-music-with-composer-eduardo-miranda-stochastic-labs/

A few spots have just opened up for our newest workshop, Biofeedback Music: Your Heart as a Drum Machine and Sweat as a Melody, happening next Saturday! 📅 Saturday, August 9 | 1PM - 4PM 🎟️ Enroll: https://grayarea.org/course/biofeedback-music-your-heart-as-a-drum-machine-and-sweat-as-a-melody/

TOMORROW! Join us for Deru’s We Will Live On, an immersive live performance featuring 3 robotic player pianos. Created in collaboration with artist/programmer Scott Brewer Opening performance @chuckjohnsonmusic.bsky.social 📅 July 26 | 8 PM Get tix: https://grayarea.org/event/deru-we-will-live-on/

𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐮𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 Come see what this year’s Cultural Incubator artists have been building! 📅 August 6 Talks followed by a casual happy hour to meet the artists and share feedback. 🔗 https://grayarea.org/event/cultural-incubator-pitch-night/