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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: Artist Talk & Happy Hour: In Conversation with Lorna Mills
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, July 12\, Gray Area will host an evening of conversation with Lorna Mills\, one of the defining figures of net.art and moving-image culture online. Join us for a cocktail mixer\, where Mills will be in dialogue with Gray Area Associate Curator Wade Wallerstein discussing the origins of her practice\, memetic influence in visual culture\, and the general “dumpster fire” nature of the internet these days. \nMills’s practice speaks directly to the questions at the heart of Gray Area’s mission: how artists metabolize emerging technology\, and how the cultures that form online become material for critical\, generative work. Whether you’ve followed her work since the GIF’s first golden age or are encountering it for the first time\, this is a rare chance to hear one of the medium’s most singular voices in person.\nAbout Lorna Mills: \nFor more than three decades\, Mills has built a practice that treats the internet as raw material. Trawling forums\, image boards\, and the stranger corners of the web for found footage that Mills cuts\, loops\, and recombines into dense\, kaleidoscopic GIF collages. The results are by turns absurd\, tender\, profane\, and hypnotic: a portrait of online culture rendered GIF format. \nMills began exhibiting in the early 1990s as a founding member of Toronto’s Red Head Gallery\, working across photography\, painting\, and Super 8 film before turning to digital animation. Since then\, her work has been presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art\, the Hayward Gallery in London\, the Museum of the Moving Image\, Transmediale\, and the Pérez Art Museum Miami\, and reached one of the largest audiences imaginable when her animation Mountain Light/Time took over the screens of Times Square as part of the Midnight Moment series. Her moving-image collages hold the particular and the universal in constant oscillation\, often manifesting as oblique critiques of consumption\, nationalism\, and acceleration disguised as pure\, chaotic delight.
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: Max Cooper – 3D/AV Live – Feeling Is Structure Tour
DESCRIPTION:Max Cooper returns to Gray Area with his Feeling Is Structure Tour for two nights only of immersive 3D audiovisual electronic music. \nAbout 3D/AV Live\n3D/AV Live is Max Cooper’s immersive audio-visual performance system.\nCustomized to every venue\, with every show a unique experience\, Max works together with architecture and space to deliver his unique blend of scientific and human stories that move off the screen to wrap the audience in sculptures of light and sound.\nThe tour will showcase Max’s latest album Feeling Is Structure plus material spanning Cooper’s celebrated catalogue\, alongside new compositions that continue his exploration of the human experience through music.\nDrawing on an extensive portfolio of conceptual album projects\, the experience is catered to seated or standing events\, classical or techno\, given his rich catalogue of genre spanning musical and visual content. 3D/AV tells the story of the foundations of our world\, and our place in it\, as a living feeling experience.
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-max-cooper-3d-av-live-feeling-is-structure-tour/2026-07-16/
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: Max Cooper – 3D/AV Live – Feeling Is Structure Tour
DESCRIPTION:Max Cooper returns to Gray Area with his Feeling Is Structure Tour for two nights only of immersive 3D audiovisual electronic music. \nAbout 3D/AV Live\n3D/AV Live is Max Cooper’s immersive audio-visual performance system.\nCustomized to every venue\, with every show a unique experience\, Max works together with architecture and space to deliver his unique blend of scientific and human stories that move off the screen to wrap the audience in sculptures of light and sound.\nThe tour will showcase Max’s latest album Feeling Is Structure plus material spanning Cooper’s celebrated catalogue\, alongside new compositions that continue his exploration of the human experience through music.\nDrawing on an extensive portfolio of conceptual album projects\, the experience is catered to seated or standing events\, classical or techno\, given his rich catalogue of genre spanning musical and visual content. 3D/AV tells the story of the foundations of our world\, and our place in it\, as a living feeling experience.
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-max-cooper-3d-av-live-feeling-is-structure-tour/2026-07-17/
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: Cybersentics Book Club - July 2026: Information Arts
DESCRIPTION:Is everyone suddenly a creative technologist? Bring your confusion (or other emotions) with this vogue mega-identity\, and let’s look together at the landscape we had at the turn of the 21st century — before the breed of people who combine art and technology in their (re)search became defined. In this endeavor\, we will rely on an encyclopedia of modern media art assembled by the late Bay Area theorist and artist Stephen Wilson. \nThis Month’s Reading:\nWilson\, S. (2003). Information arts: intersections of art\, science\, and technology. MIT Press.  \nAbout the Cybersentics Book Club\nGray 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.\nIn 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\, while the inward perspective focuses on cyborg art.\nThis book club is a fit for artists\, makers\, researchers\, scholars\, engineers\, and anyone curious about the integration of technology and art. Join us as we investigate how to enhance our sensory experiences\, from biofeedback and sonification to embedding sensors that challenge our perceptions.\nOur group’s purpose is to cultivate a welcoming community that fosters knowledge-sharing and collaboration. Whether you’re seeking to connect with potential collaborators\, look for answers to pressing questions\, gain critical insights\, or engage in peer learning\, this is the place for you!\nCybersentics is organized and led by Gray Area Research Fellow Anastasia Chernysheva as part of the Biofeedback Art|Research Network (BARN).
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-cybersentics-book-club-july-2026-information-arts/
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