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/

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...

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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! ⬇️

Federal Arts Funding Withdrawn from Gray Area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 ...

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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...

Jonathon Keats: Experimental Philosopher

Podcast Episode · RadicalxChange(s) · 05/16/2025 · 1h 8m

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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...

Where Does Knowledge Come From? Funding Informational Commons – San Francisco 2025

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🌍 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. .

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

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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...

Simulation Sessions April 2025 with Chaim Gingold

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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...

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 ...

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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.

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BREAKING: The head of the $42 billion federal BEAD program that aims to bring broadband internet to rural and unserved areas has left the Commerce Dept. He sent a departing email warning of "deeply negative outcomes" for people if the Trump admin shifts $$ from fiber internet to Musk's Starlink:

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

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🚀 New Workshop: Intro to Open Source Contribution with p5.js Ever wanted to contribute to open source but don’t know where to start? It’s not just about coding—there are many ways to get involved, from documentation to community building. 🔗 Register: grayarea.org/course/intro...

“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...

Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice

Genetically modified mice have traits geared towards cold tolerance, in step towards modifying elephants

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RIP Gerd Stern www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/a...

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.

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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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The upcoming Augmented Intelligence sale represents the first time a major auction house is focusing entirely on works created using machine learning. Artists have mixed feelings about it.

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

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🌍 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.

Whole Earth Redux

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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.