Gray Area Grand Theater

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 […]

This spring, TITLES and Gray Area gave five artists an unusual brief: train a custom AI model on your own creative practice, and see what it dreams up. On May 9, Arvida Byström, Huntrezz Janos, Lou Fauroux, Yvonne Fang, and Sharon Zheng unveil their models for the first time, and explore what happens when a […]

Gray Area presents a special night of artist-made films, selected by internet artist performer Molly Soda. Soda will be present to introduce the films, and afterwards will participate in a Q&A moderated by Gray Area Associate Curator Wade Wallerstein. Bringing together a diverse group of artists, Good Modeling Picture!! offers a variety of perspectives on […]