Gray Area Grand Theater

A monthly mini-lecture and hack night for artists, game designers, character designers, architects, world builders, and AI agent designers working in (or interested in exploring) 3D simulation. Simulation Sessions is a free monthly event series facilitated by the World Engines Lab, incubated at Gray Area. In response to the growing prevalence and sophistication of virtual […]

‘Earth To Moon’ North American Tour This fall, three internationally renowned producers will team up for a joint tour across North America. Lusine (Ghostly International), Arms and Sleepers (Pelagic Records) […]

Join us for an evening of experimental films by artist collective La Pocha Nostra opened with a short introduction by Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Over the course of the pandemic, interdisciplinary performance […]

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Join us for an exciting performance of 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips, the newest record by experimental rock band Xiu Xiu. With 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips, Xiu Xiu strove to create a record that felt unafraid, pushing boundaries not only for the audience but the band […]

SIGNAL SF is an evening of audiovisual performances by boundary-pushing artists from Japan, Argentina, New York, and San Francisco. This show, curated by NYC-based intermedia art group Testu Collective, will explore new sonic realms and visual worlds through cinematic narratives and hybrid technologies. Each artist will delve into concepts such as generative code guided by […]

Join us for an atmospheric performance in Rival Consoles's North America Tour London-based producer Ryan Lee West, better known under the name Rival Consoles, is notable for making synthesisers sound human and atmospheric. Over the course of a critically acclaimed fifteen-year career, his music has diversified from the challenging electronic output of his early EPs, […]

At the intersection of creativity and technology, companies are leveraging AI, ML, and XR to transform related communities into dynamic hubs of innovation and collaboration. Join us for an event that delves into recent practices in building diverse communities through collaborations between technology companies, creatives, public entities, and cultural organizations, showcasing how these cross-sector partnerships […]

What if there were a road less taken in the history of cybernetics — one with profound implications for how we understand technology today? Alongside the well-known cybernetics of command and control, of informatics and machine intelligence, in the 1960s and 1970s a more organic cybernetic mode also arose, an ecological line of inquiry that […]

The San Francisco Latino Parity and Equity Coalition (SFLPEC) is hosting a Mayoral Forum focused on the key issues impacting our community: Workforce, Place-keeping, Health, and Community Safety. This is a unique opportunity to hear directly from the candidates and what their vision is to fortify the Latino community to build a stronger and more […]

Gray Area is pleased to present 'The Memory Theaters of Claudia Hart,' performed with Tommy Martinez. Join us at 6PM for Happy Hour, followed by a seated performance at 7PM as well as a reception afterwards. In the Memory Theaters, Claudia Hart recites personal fables that hybrid Grimm's fairy tales with ghost stories and Gothic […]