Gray Area Grand Theater

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 […]

Gray Area presents composer and singer ganavya on September 22 for a night fusing American and South Asian musical traditions. ganavya Hailed as “among modern music's most compelling vocalists” (Wall Street Journal) "extraordinary" (DownBeat) and "most enchanting" (NPR), ganavya is a transdisciplinary scholar, vocalist, word-craftswoman, jalatarangam artist, and double-bassist. Recent credits include: this body is […]

Surrogate is a body of Lauren Lee McCarthy’s work centered around issues of reproductive technology and bodily autonomy. Beginning with the proposal to become a surrogate, McCarthy offers her body to carry someone else’s baby while they use an app to monitor and control her for nine months. To close Gray Area Festival, McCarthy will […]

In this workshop, you will learn how to code shaders by creating a visual composition with GPU code and a little bit of math. This is an ideal way to create music visualizers, or any interactive abstract graphics of the sort. We will briefly go over how to use the shaders we create in a […]

The relationship between artists writing code and experimental film and video is a long and rich history. In this workshop for beginners and intermediate coders, I’ll share a few code examples written in Processing that process 2D images to create time-based visual experiences. We’ll have time to explore these examples and to make things together. […]

This workshop will introduce participants to DevOps as a diasporic tool for mysticism. Through considering the web as both an ethereal and tangible realm, participants will select a 3D object of personal history or significance to deploy at any data center located in major global cities. Similar to the Filipino practice of creating anting-antings, these […]