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

Book Launch & Signing — Daniel Temkin: Forty-Four Esolangs

Gray Area celebrates Artist and Author Daniel Temkin and his new monograph, "Forty-Four Esolangs."

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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/

Book Launch & Film Screening — Bride of Frankenstein with Shane Denson

Come celebrate the West Coast launch of Shane Denson’s Bride of Frankenstein, featuring a talk, screening of the 1935 film, cocktail hour, and book signing.

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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