October 2020
Gray Area Grand Theater: Electronic Prototyping For Designers Workshop
Whether you want to make a heated knee brace, an interactive wall display using light and touch, or a jacket with lights for biker safety, this workshop is designed to teach you the fundamentals to apply to your own projects. Together, we'll learn to make a heating pad warm up and we'll learn to read data from pressure sensors. We'll also learn the basic terminology, giving you the tools to understand a basic tutorial from Adafruit or Sparkfun. More experienced…
Find out more »Gray Area Grand Theater: Andrew McLuhan Teaches Understanding Media
Understanding Media Intensive is a 12-part look at media theorist Marshall McLuhan's major 1964 work "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man," taught by Andrew McLuhan, Director of The McLuhan Institute. In an age where our media environment conditions and structures our reality in increasingly potent ways, "Understanding Media" provides important foundational knowledge on how our cultural traumas and tropes are embodied in technologies. This course will provide lecture and discussion on Part One of the book, which puts forth a…
Find out more »September 2021
Gray Area Grand Theater: Negativland with Live Cinema by SUE-C
* We're excited to announce that this event has been rescheduled to September 17, 2021! All tickets will be honored at the rescheduled show. If you cannot make it to the rescheduled date, please request a refund from support@withfriends.co. Thank you for your support! Tickets: grayarea.org/event/negativland/ ----- Over the years Negativland's "illegal" collage and appropriation-based audio and visual works have touched on many things — pranks, media hoaxes, advertising, media literacy, religion, death, the evolving art of collage, the bizarre…
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