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

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

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).

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.

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! ⬇️

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...

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...

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. .

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...

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...

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

“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...

LLMbient

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

🌍 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...

Thank you, curatorial text, for reminding me that we live in a polarized and rapidly changing world.

NEXT WEEK! Join us for January'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. 📅 Monday, January 27 | 6–9PM RSVP: grayarea.org/event/simula...

I talked on the Inversion Art podcast about @grayarea.org for 69 minutes. www.inversionart.com/p/the-mo-pod...

Refocus locally.

One of the best things about AI is that you don't have to invite it to the post-panel dinner.

Join Gray Area as Finance & Operations Manager! Are you a systems thinker passionate about managing finances and operations in mission-driven environments? --> grayarea.org/about/opport...

Teaching "A Critical Introduction to AI Images" this semester as a visiting prof at RIT's Humanities, Computing and Design department. Here's the reading list I have so far.

TIL the accordion is the official musical instrument of San Francisco

Step into a post-apocalyptic landscape where reality is in flux and boundaries are no longer fixed. How did we get here? Which are our real bodies? What is happening to the boundaries of our physical, virtual, mental, and spiritual realities?

Come experience 𝘿𝙀𝙉𝙏𝘼𝙓𝙐𝙑𝙄𝘼, the latest extended reality (XR) creation by Los Angeles-based artists Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou and Huntrezz Janos. 💫 January 10 | 7:00PM Gray Area / Grand Theater 2665 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94110 Get Tickets: grayarea.org/event/dentax...

New Year, New Sponge

Dang, still had my fingers crossed for Jimmy Carter's second term.

There should be an awards gala for end of year fundraising letters.

👋 Meet Kate Hollenbach: Our New Education Director We’re thrilled to introduce @kjhollen.bsky.social as Gray Area’s new Education Director! Kate is an artist, programmer, and educator with extensive experience leading initiatives that merge art and technology.

As we close out a busy sixteenth year at Gray Area, we’re already planning for another year of programming at the crossroads of art, technology, science, and the humanities.

Plan your Gray Area 2023 Festival! Take a look at the PLURAL PROTOTYPES schedule: grayareafestival.io/schedule/ Join us for four days of talks, performances, workshops, and an exhibition ~ starting this Thursday, October 19, with the Exhibition Opening Party & Performances!

Today is the the 55th Anniversary of the Whole Earth Catalog! In celebration, I'm delighted to announce the Whole Earth Index, a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications — in collaboration with @grayarea.org, Long Now and @archive.org. wholeearth.info

It's because he's on Nostr being a Bitcoin maxi, stanning RFK, and posting his carnivore diet.

Wet-ass Playa, make that pullout game weak

Join us in shaping the evolution of creative education! We're thrilled to introduce our latest educational intensive, Decentralized Web for Creators, & we invite you to be a driving force in its development through @Gitcoin Grants Round 18 #GG18 @FFDWeb. Learn more & support: https://bit.ly/3KMrZ3E

Apply for a grant so high and wild you'll never have to apply for another