Gray Area Grand Theater: Exhibition Opening – Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art

Come celebrate the opening of the Difference Machines exhibition with curators Tina Rivers Ryan and Paul Vanouse, while enjoying drinks served throughout the evening.
Tickets: https://grayarea.org/exhibitions/difference-machines/
Gray Area is proud to present Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art, showcasing the work of seventeen artists that spans the last three decades, from software-based and internet art to animated videos, bioart experiments, digital games, and 3-D printed sculptures.
Organized by the Buffalo AKG museum, this timely exploration of the implications of technology on our lives travels to Gray Area on the second stop on its North American tour.
Difference Machines arrives in San Francisco at a pivotal moment, when a new wave of innovation in artificial intelligence, decentralized networks, and spatial computing technologies is redefining the ways in which we communicate, work, learn, and create. When the Web first emerged in the 1990s, many people imagined that it would allow us to escape our bodies. Instead, the opposite became true, and individuals’ offline and online selves have fused. Many works in this exhibition examine how digital systems contribute to the exclusion, erasure, and exploitation of marginalized people. Others emphasize how digital tools can be repurposed to tell more inclusive stories or imagine new ways of being. Dynamic and interactive, these projects ask audiences to not only reconsider the infrastructures of exclusion that undergird society, but also to reimagine how we might use our increasingly powerful “difference machines” to generate radical change.

Difference Machines will be open to the public July 7 – August 31, 2023, from 4-8PM on Thursday and Friday, and 1-5PM Saturday and Sunday.