Gray Area Grand Theater

In a rapidly evolving digital art landscape, balancing creative ambition with financial sustainability is a crucial challenge. Led by award-winning artist and art director Mélanie Courtinat, this workshop explores strategies for building viable economic models as a digital artist through diverse revenue streams. Through examples in their own practice, the artist will discuss funding opportunities, […]

San Francisco’s Gray Area will soon host Beyond Play, the first-ever French-American community event dedicated to fostering collaboration, reflection, and artistic dialogue in the video game industry. Organized by Villa Albertine, in San Francisco’s Gray Area, in partnership with Institut français, La Région Occitanie, Game France, Game for changer, and Gray Area, Beyond Play is […]

An ephemeral night of digital art awaits! Dreamed up by net-art visionary Rafaël Rozendaal, BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) is a one-night-only exhibition and playground for artists to showcase their work.

Explore the potential of AI-driven creativity in this technical and conceptual workshop. Whether you’re a beginner or seeking to enhance your skills, this session introduces Runway AI, a user-friendly and versatile platform for media content creation. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to utilize Runway’s Text to Video, Image to Video, Text to Image, Multi-Motion […]

MATH DAY is approaching! Join PTV & thegoodnews crew this February on Saturday, 2/22 for a night filled with some of the bay area's best and brightest artists showing new works, performing live music and celebrating the life of MATH PTV across 2 neighboring venues: Gray Area (Grand Theater) and Method Made SF Gallery in […]

Noise Pop Festival 2025 Presents Parra for Cuva Gray Area San Francisco, CA February 21, 2025 Parra for Cuva It’s an amusing paradox how Parra for Cuva’s new album Juno, containing recordings of the South American ronroco, an Indian flute player, and the hammered dulcimer, an ancient Persian instrument, was almost entirely produced within the […]

Gray Area, ZERO1, and Crowbar Corner are proud to present Synth Sessions, a free hands-on workshop and group jam open to all levels to expand your sonic horizons. Every month, participants learn about a new synthesis topic (drones, sequencing, sound design, etc.), then collaborate on a group jam that will propel the workshop sounds into […]

Gray Area and Recombinant Media Labs are excited to have Franck Vigroux back with the world premiere of THIRST . A concert featuring pulsating live electronic music, THIRST transcends the boundaries of traditional audiovisual performance by utilizing multi-projections of images. Drawing inspiration from the lexicon of road movies, Americanized iconography, and hyper-colored, image-saturated aesthetics, it […]

Gray Area presents the US premiere of The Siren, a new video game by French artist Mélanie Courtinat. Exhibition Opening Mélanie Courtinat: The Siren Wednesday, February 12, 2025 Doors: 6PM Gray Area is pleased to present Mélanie Courtinat: The Siren, a solo exhibition and the US premiere of a new video game work by French […]

An ephemeral night of digital art awaits! Dreamed up by net-art visionary Rafaël Rozendaal, BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) is a one-night-only exhibition and playground for artists to showcase their work. About BYOB BYOBs are immersive, spontaneous, and always surprising. BYOB is an exploration of the medium of projection, and a venue for inspiration. It’s […]

Join us for January's Simulation Session, our free monthly event series facilitated by the World Engines Lab helping sustain our local community of 3D designers, artists, and technologists. 📅 Monday, January 27 | 6–9PM This month, we’re welcoming video programming specialist Omelia Thompson! With experience in training AI, writing shaders, computer vision, and complex mathematics, […]

Journey through music, light, and movement with classical ensembles, visceral DJ sets, and incredible dance performances while immersed in mind-blowing visuals. Legendary dance company ODC joins Mercury Soul at the cutting-edge Gray Area for a not-to-be-missed collaboration. In between DJ sets by DJ Masonic (Mason Bates) and DJ Justin Reed, experience classical masterpieces by Chopin, […]