Gray Area Grand Theater

BFF San Francisco presents international short film programs that appeal to film connoisseurs, avid cyclists, and everyone in between. Curated narratives, animations, documentaries, award-winning directors, and emerging talents all share equal billing. Program 1: Cinematic Shorts Sat, Jun 27 at 3pm A story driven program with diverse cinematic filmmaking styles: documentaries, narrative, animation, and more. […]

Gray Area is pleased to host a new reading group, the Cybersentics Book Club that will explore the human sensorium through the lens of art and technology. In the first cycle, Cybersentic's reading list will center key themes related to the bidirectional flow of information between bodies and the environment. The outward perspective examines biofeedback, […]

Eternal Research presents Rite of the Demon: Summer, an evening of collaborative experimentation between contemporary artists and ancient oracles. Featuring LA’s Fierra Ex Machina, inventors and developers of the Demon Box, and joined by electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani, this multimedia event melds storied mediums with cutting-edge transmedia to offer the key to the Oracle […]

Paradessence, Visible Cloaks’ third full-length, is a work of emergence and illusion. The album’s fourteen songs shift, heave, and shimmer against a faintly luminous backdrop of night, a cavernous space shaped by sparse hyperreal representations of the natural world. The arrangements are simultaneously grandiose and fragile, both an inversion and culmination of what came before […]

In this workshop you will learn the fundamentals of creating techno music live with Beat DJ, a livecoding program you control by typing simple commands. You will learn composition techniques essential for improvising techno including hypnotic loop construction, tension control, mixing, and on-the-fly decision making. New possibilities for improvisation, performance, collaboration, and experimentation will open […]

Gray Area presents Immersive Story Club: a new events series highlighting excellence and diversity in virtual reality narrative experiences from around the world. Led by Gray Area Cultural Incubator member Danielle Giroux, this recurring gathering will feature a different short form VR film in each session. Following each screening, the Immersive Story Club will follow […]

Gray Area presents Immersive Story Club: a new events series highlighting excellence and diversity in virtual reality narrative experiences from around the world. Led by Gray Area Cultural Incubator member Danielle Giroux, this recurring gathering will feature a different short form VR film in each session. Following each screening, the Immersive Story Club will follow […]

A community fundraiser to mobilize resources, ideas, and solidarity for Glia’s healthcare projects in Palestine. Event Schedule The afternoon will include a curated vendor market, standing appetizers, and a seated program. 12:00 PM Doors Open + Vendor Market Begins 12:30 PM Standing Appetizers Served 1:30 PM Live Ensemble Performance from PYM 2:35 PM Fundraising Appeal […]

After Thought is a concert that occurs slightly after it has already happened, where the memories of computers and humans blur into something you won’t quite be able to forget (or fully remember). What exactly does a memory disk remember, and what does it choose to leave behind? Ten composers interviewed the transistors, microchips, and […]

The second installment of the DATA/LOSS showcase series brings Portland and Bay Area artists together for a night filled with curated raw audiovisual oblations. Set as an immersive, seated experience, we invite you on a journey of erosion that moves from dark industrial textures toward total decomposition of signal. At the heart of the event […]

Drawing on lectures Lewis Mumford delivered at Columbia University in 1952, "Art and Technics" maps a tension between two seemingly disparate ways of navigating the world — one oriented toward efficiency, the other toward meaning — and argues that modern society's fixation on technics has deprived daily life of symbolic concerns. This divide is rather […]