Barry Threw
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โข๐๏ธโฃ Executive & Artistic Director
@grayarea.org
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Barry Threw
Gray Area
3 months ago
Get ready for Max Cooperโs 3D AV tour, On Being โ live at Gray Area "Striking performances that are nothing short of pure spectacle" - Resident Advisor. ๐ Wednesday, August 27 with Berry B | 8PM ๐ Thursday, August 28 with Sara Afshar | 9:30PM ๐๏ธ Get tix:
bit.ly/Max-Cooper-Aug-27-28
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Barry Threw
Gray Area
4 months ago
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 ๐ 8, 27 | 8 PM ๐ 8, 28 | 9:30 PM ๐๏ธ Get tix:
https://tickets.grayarea.org/events?category=Multiple-Date%20Event
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Barry Threw
Gray Area
5 months ago
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. ๐ July 26 | 8 PM Tix:
https://grayarea.org/event/deru-we-will-live-on/
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Barry Threw
Gray Area
5 months ago
We're excited to announce early access to our newest workshop, ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐: ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฏ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐ ๐, led by artist and researcher Barbara Nerness (@soupbetweenyourears) with Gray Area Research Fellow Anastasia Chernysheva (@biofeedback_and_arts).
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Gray Area
6 months ago
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. ๐ June 18, 2025 | 10AM PT ๐Online Free RSVP:
https://grayarea.org/event/dweb-for-creators-project-salon/
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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. Participantsโ work spans Cultural Memory, Community Networks, and Decentralized Tools. Projects will showcase decentralized approaches to data sovere...
https://grayarea.org/event/dweb-for-creators-project-salon/
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Happy Pauline Oliveros' birthday to those who celebrate.
6 months ago
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Eryk Salvaggio
6 months ago
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 โaddressing the most urgent topics in technology and society through radical artistic inquiry.โ Give if you can! โฌ๏ธ
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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 yearโs Gray Area Festival. This puts ...
https://grayarea.org/nea-federal-arts-funding-withdrawn-from-gray-area/?mc_cid=c920fe0385&mc_eid=8efcefd047
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Barry Threw
RadicalxChange Foundation
6 months ago
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...
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Jonathon Keats: Experimental Philosopher
Podcast Episode ยท RadicalxChange(s) ยท 05/16/2025 ยท 1h 8m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jonathon-keats-experimental-philosopher/id1547525454?i=1000708742945
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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...
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Where Does Knowledge Come From? Funding Informational Commons โ San Francisco 2025
YouTube video by Funding the Commons
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CiJBcLEaqws
7 months ago
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Barry Threw
Gray Area
7 months ago
๐ 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. ๐ April 22 ยท 6โ8PM ๐ Gray Area Gallery RSVP:
grayarea.org/visit/gallery/
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Barry Threw
Gray Area
8 months ago
New In-Person Workshop! ๐ฝ๐ช๐๐ก๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ค๐ข๐ค๐ง๐ง๐ค๐ฌ: ๐๐๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ค๐ช๐จ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ฃ ๐พ๐ค๐ฃ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐จ ๐ค๐ ๐พ๐ก๐๐ข๐๐ฉ๐ ๐พ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ with experimental philosopher, artist, and writer Jonathon Keats ๐ May 4, 2025 | 1โ4 PM Spots are limited. Sign up today:
grayarea.org/course/build...
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Gray Area
8 months ago
Gray Area presents ๐ฅ Speculations on Capture, a new film by Morehshin Allahyari. Stick around for a Q&A with Usha Iyer, plus a cocktail hour ๐นโจ Free for members! Saturday, April 19, 2025 ๐
grayarea.org/event/specul...
Presented with support from the San Francisco Arts Commission. .
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SPECULATIONS ON CAPTURE | Film Screening with Morehshin Allahyari in Conversation with Usha Iyer
https://grayarea.org/event/speculations-on-capture-film-screening-w-morehshin-allahyari-in-conversation-with-usha-iyer/
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Barry Threw
Gray Area
8 months ago
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 ๐ Monday, April 21 | 6PM RSVP:
grayarea.org/event/simula...
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Simulation Sessions April 2025 with Chaim Gingold
https://grayarea.org/event/simulation-sessions-apr-2025/
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Barry Threw
Gray Area
8 months ago
Back by popular demand! ๐๏ธ ๐น ๐๐ซ๐๐๐๐๐จ๐๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐๐ซ ๐๐ฒ๐ง๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ณ๐๐ซ๐ฌ is a 2-day workshop where you'll build your own DIY synth from scratch. No experience needed and all materials provided. ๐ Apr 26โ27 ๐
grayarea.org/course/bread...
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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 ...
https://grayarea.org/course/breadboarding-modular-synthesizers-2025
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Barry Threw
Gray Area
8 months ago
Closing out our Creative Code Intensive instructor series is Kate Hollenbach, Gray Areaโs Director of Education, whoโll be teaching 4 units in this yearโs newly redesigned program.
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Gray Area
8 months ago
Meet Alexa Ann Bonomo, one of our expert instructors in the newly redesigned Creative Code Intensive!
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Barry Threw
Gray Area
8 months ago
Meet Tonz ( @scrollingpistachio ), one of the instructors leading this yearโs Creative Code Intensive! Tonz is an interactive artist creating fantastical transmedia experiences that invite players to playfully dissect social issues.
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Gray Area
8 months ago
TOMORROW!! Join us for an Artist Talk & Happy Hour with artist Mรฉlanie Courtinat and explore her interactive game ๐ฃ๐ฑ๐ฎ ๐ข๐ฒ๐ป๐ฎ๐ท, 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...
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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.
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8 months ago
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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
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San Francisco 2025 | Funding the Commons
The 12th Funding the Commons conference returns to San Francisco in 2025, hosted at the historic Internet Archive. This year, we focus on artificial intelligenceโhow we can fund, govern, and align the...
https://www.fundingthecommons.io/sf-2025
9 months ago
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Gray Area
9 months ago
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! ๐ April 5 | 12โ3 PM ๐ Gray Area, SF โจ All levels welcome
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โMy overall concern is whether this is a sensible use of resources โฆ As it is, we have some cute-looking hairy mice.โ
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice
Genetically modified mice have traits geared towards cold tolerance, in step towards modifying elephants
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/04/genetically-modified-woolly-mice-mammoth
9 months ago
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RIP Gerd Stern
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/a...
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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 artistsโ collective USCO, which helped define the 1960s with psychedelic, sensory-overloading installations and performances.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/arts/gerd-stern-dead.html?smid=url-share
9 months ago
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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.
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9 months ago
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Honestly relieved they memorialized Aaron Swartz with a statue instead of a zombie AI model.
10 months ago
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Bryan Johnston Massacre
10 months ago
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Gray Area
10 months ago
๐ Announcing: Open Call for Submissions to the Whole Earth Redux ๐
grayarea.org/initiative/w...
In 2023, Gray Area launched the Whole Earth Index, the publicationโs first complete online archive, to make it easier to access the tools, ideas, and practices highlighted in the Catalog.
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Whole Earth Redux
https://grayarea.org/initiative/whole-earth-redux-apply/
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Gray Area
10 months ago
Gray Areaโs Cultural Incubator is back with new opportunities for growing your creative technology practice ๐ฑApply by March 7, 2025 to join our 2025 cohort! ->
grayarea.org/create/cultu...
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Thank you, curatorial text, for reminding me that we live in a polarized and rapidly changing world.
10 months ago
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Gray Area
10 months ago
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. ๐ Monday, January 27 | 6โ9PM RSVP:
grayarea.org/event/simula...
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Simulation Sessions January 2025 with Omelia Thompson
https://grayarea.org/event/simulation-sessions-jan-2025/
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I talked on the Inversion Art podcast about
@grayarea.org
for 69 minutes.
www.inversionart.com/p/the-mo-pod...
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The M.O. Podcast Episode 29: Barry Threw, Executive and Artistic Director of Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
Barry Threw talks about Gray Area and Pioneering the Intersection of Art, Technology, and Culture
https://www.inversionart.com/p/the-mo-podcast-episode-29-barry-threw?r=1yk39&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
10 months ago
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Refocus locally.
10 months ago
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One of the best things about AI is that you don't have to invite it to the post-panel dinner.
10 months ago
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Barry Threw
Gray Area
10 months ago
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...
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Job Openings - Finance & Operations Manager
https://grayarea.org/about/opportunities/finance-and-operations-manager/
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Eryk Salvaggio
11 months ago
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.
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TIL the accordion is the official musical instrument of San Francisco
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Barry Threw
Gray Area
11 months ago
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?
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Barry Threw
Gray Area
11 months ago
Come experience ๐ฟ๐๐๐๐ผ๐๐๐๐๐ผ, the latest extended reality (XR) creation by Los Angeles-based artists Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou and Huntrezz Janos. ๐ซ January 10 | 7:00PM Gray Area / Grand Theater 2665 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94110 Get Tickets:
grayarea.org/event/dentax...
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New Year, New Sponge
11 months ago
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Dang, still had my fingers crossed for Jimmy Carter's second term.
11 months ago
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There should be an awards gala for end of year fundraising letters.
12 months ago
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Gray Area
12 months ago
๐ Meet Kate Hollenbach: Our New Education Director Weโre thrilled to introduce
@kjhollen.bsky.social
as Gray Areaโs new Education Director! Kate is an artist, programmer, and educator with extensive experience leading initiatives that merge art and technology.
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Barry Threw
Gray Area
12 months ago
As we close out a busy sixteenth year at Gray Area, weโre already planning for another year of programming at the crossroads of art, technology, science, and the humanities.
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Barry Threw
Gray Area
about 2 years ago
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!
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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 โ in collaboration with
@grayarea.org
, Long Now and
@archive.org
.
wholeearth.info
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Whole Earth Index
Here lies a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand and the POINT Foundation between ...
https://wholeearth.info
about 2 years ago
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It's because he's on Nostr being a Bitcoin maxi, stanning RFK, and posting his carnivore diet.
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about 2 years ago
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Wet-ass Playa, make that pullout game weak
about 2 years ago
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Barry Threw
Gray Area
over 2 years ago
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
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Apply for a grant so high and wild you'll never have to apply for another
over 2 years ago
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