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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: An Evening of Films by La Pocha Nostra
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of experimental films by artist collective La Pocha Nostra opened with a short introduction by Guillermo Gómez-Peña.\nOver the course of the pandemic\, interdisciplinary performance collective La Pocha Nostra got to work developing a collaborative filmmaking format\, drawing directly from our own performance methodology and responding to the immediate artistic constraints posed by the multiple pandemias and prevailing culture of fear. The process of making our performance films is de-centered\, experimental\, and collaborative\, defying traditional filmmaking practice – moviemaking against all odds and by any means necessary.\nThis special screening features a selection of experimental films completed during the past 4 years.\nGet tickets: https://grayarea.org/event/old-school-video-art-against-nostalgia-films-guillermo-gomez-pena-gustavo-vazquez/
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-an-evening-of-films-by-la-pocha-nostra/
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: HEXCODE Halloween Algorave
DESCRIPTION:▘▗▖◟◜◜◜◝◝◝◝◜◜▗▞◡◡◠◎◎◎◎◎◠◡▞▘▗▖▖▖ \nLive electronic music and visual art made with: \n– Projected code 💻 \n– Analog hardware 🔨 \n– Light show with strobes and fog \n– Boiler room vibes but better \n▘▘▗▖◟◟◜◜◜◜◜◟◟▗▞◡◡◠◎◎◎◎◎◡◡▞▘▗▖▖▖ \nCOSTUMES PREFERRED \nCurses coming imminently…
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-hexcode-halloween-algorave/
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: Xiu Xiu: 13″ Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips
DESCRIPTION: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.\nWith 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 itself. Mixed by John Congleton\, the nine-track album explores themes of existential despair\, disorientation\, and the struggle for significance. Despite its intense subject matter\, this record genuinely cares for its audience and is imbued with purpose. Ultimately\, it transcends the randomness of life and connects with its listeners on a profound\, authentic level.\nGet tickets: https://grayarea.org/event/xiu-xiu-13-frank-beltrame-italian-stiletto-with-bison-horn-grips/
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-xiu-xiu-13%e2%80%b3-frank-beltrame-italian-stiletto-with-bison-horn-grips/
LOCATION:Gray Area Grand Theater\, 2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: SIGNAL SF: An Evening of Sonic & Visual Explorations
DESCRIPTION: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 natural systems\, psychoacoustics\, optical phenomena in sculpture\, and tactility of sound.
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-signal-sf-an-evening-of-sonic-visual-explorations/
LOCATION:Gray Area Grand Theater\, 2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater:  Rival Consoles Live A/V
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an atmospheric performance in Rival Consoles’s North America Tour \nLondon-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\, to gradually becoming more conceptual and metamorphic with his albums.
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-rival-consoles-live-a-v/
LOCATION:Gray Area Grand Theater\, 2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: SF #TechWeek – Berlin X San Francisco: Creative Tech for Inclusive Communities
DESCRIPTION: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 drive innovation to enhance human expression while prioritizing accessibility\, diversity\, and sustainability. \nThrough compelling case studies\, we will showcase successful tech and creative communities partnerships\, providing valuable insights into how these alliances have flourished. We will also address the challenges of integrating emerging technologies into creative practices and spaces\, offering strategies to include underrepresented communities\, improve diverse representation\, and support regenerative community models. \nDon’t miss this opportunity to connect with industry and community leaders\, learn from real-world examples\, and contribute to shaping the future of creative tech communities. \nThis event is a cooperation between Gray Area\, Berlin Business Office USA\, and “C/Change – the next dimension” by Goethe-Institut San Francisco and is a part of #Tech Week — a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Key Topics \n● Collaborative strategies between tech companies and creative communities\, role of public entities and non-profit incubators\n● Building and expanding sustainable creative networks across the globe that strengthen diversity and underrepresented communities.\n● Case studies of successful tech-community partnerships\n● Overcoming challenges in integrating emerging technologies into creative practices/spaces Target Group \nTech-enthusiasts\, Startups\, Creatives\, Community Builder\, non-profit incubators
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-sf-techweek-berlin-x-san-francisco-creative-tech-for-inclusive-communities/
LOCATION:Gray Area Grand Theater\, 2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gray Area: Cybernetic Countercultures Intensive
DESCRIPTION:What if there were a road less taken in the history of cybernetics — one with profound implications for how we understand technology today? \nAlongside 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 foregrounded the complex internal and interactive behaviors of living systems. \nA 12-week online course led by Dr. Bruno Clarke and Dr. David McConville of Gaian Systems\, and co-produced by Gray Area\, the Cybernetic Countercultures Intensive will take this alternative ecological route through the larger history of cybernetics. Our aim is to recover and revive the organic and ecological lines of systems thinking and then to venture toward new ways of conceiving and building advanced technological systems — from machines that work in symbiosis with living processes to adaptive architectures and regenerative infrastructures. Join us on a voyage of rediscovery seeking not to imitate life but to integrate the technosphere with the biosphere\, to design a technological paradigm grounded in the sensitivity and sentience of the living world.
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-cybernetic-countercultures-intensive/
LOCATION:Gray Area Grand Theater\, 2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gray Area: SF Latino Parity and Equity Coalition - Mayoral Forum
DESCRIPTION: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 inclusive San Francisco. \n📅 Date: Saturday\, September 28th\, 2024\n🕒 Time: 9:30 am-12:00 pm\n📍 Location: Gray Area 2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110 \nDon’t miss this chance to have your voice heard! Register today! https://forms.gle/nCYC4pJWvvwhHu6X7
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-sf-latino-parity-and-equity-coalition-mayoral-forum/
LOCATION:Gray Area Grand Theater\, 2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: The Memory Theaters of Claudia Hart
DESCRIPTION: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. \nIn the Memory Theaters\, Claudia Hart recites personal fables that hybrid Grimm’s fairy tales with ghost stories and Gothic fiction\, to create a haunting narrative about a digital artist trying to find her way in the alienating culture of high-end technologies. Hers is a world obsessed with the cult of innovation\, invested in eternal newness but otherwise an extension of a larger artworld where power\, money\, status\, and adherence to a narrow insider code of ethics and behavior dominate. Estranged from the futuristic and success-driven world in which she finds herself\, the Memory Theaters track Hart’s transformation of life into art\, reflecting on generational trauma and her own psychological dissonance as she navigates the harsh political realities of the contemporary art world. Hart tells her stories against a backdrop of her projected 3D animations\, while Martinez plays electric guitar. His dark and haunting music is rehearsed but improvised upon and processed live\, setting the pace and mood of this powerfully emotional theatrical narrative. \nThe Memory Theater of Claudia Hart (2023-2024)\, transforms the contents of her archives into a new work. In the tradition of the Wooster Group\, Hart’s Memory Theater takes the form of a 40-minute theatrical monologue combined with animations that include experimental avatar dance\, 3D animation and video recordings of live performances\, initially produced for The Alices Virtual-Reality Ballet\, a collaboration between Claudia Hart and Edmund Campion that took place over the course of seven years between 2013 and 2020. One of the many iterations of this work was a live Virtual Reality version\, produced in 2018 by Tommy Martinez\, in a Tech Residency at Pioneer Works\, Brooklyn\, NY. This summer\, Hart and Martinez have returned to this earlier piece in order to rework it in relation to the public politics of 2024. \n‘The Memory Theaters of Claudia Hart’ is based on The Alices Virtual-Reality Ballet\, a collaboration by Claudia Hart and Edmund Campion\, taking place over the course of seven years\, between 2013 and 2020. \nWritten by Claudia Hart\, 2022-2023 and rewritten in collaboration with Tommy Martinez in 2024. \nLive Music Composed and Performed by Tommy Martinez. \nRemixing\, sound\, and software produced by Edmund Campion\, 2014-2024. \nEvent Production by Andrew Blanton.
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-the-memory-theaters-of-claudia-hart/
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: ganavya
DESCRIPTION:Gray Area presents composer and singer ganavya on September 22 for a night fusing American and South Asian musical traditions. \nganavya \nHailed 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. \nRecent credits include: this body is so impermanent… (2021) directed by Peter Sellars\, featuring ganavya (solo voice\, composition)\, Michael Schumacher (choreography\, dance)\, Wong Dongling (live calligraphy); Ch.7: The Goddess (2019) directed by Peter Sellars\, featuring ganavya (solo voice\, composition\, dance)\, Michael Schumacher (choreography\, dance); Daughter of a Temple (2019)\, a sound installation composed for the 13th Bienale de Habana; featured solo vocalist and lead researcher with esperanza spalding on the 2022 “Best Jazz Vocal” Grammy award winning album Songwrights Apothecary Lab (2021)\, contributing librettist for Iphigenia by Elder Wayne Shorter and esperanza spalding\, writer/singer of first Tamil lyrics to win a Latin Grammy award (2020)\, album and touring solo vocalist on the Quincy Jones’ produced Tocororo which hit #1 in jazz charts. \nHer fellowships for music composition include Camargo Foundation\, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation\, where she became the youngest composer to have received the honor in 2021. In 2022\, she was a Scholar-In-Residence at Cynthia Mitchell Center for the Arts in the University of Houston. \nAlbums recently recorded include: Daughter of a Temple\, co-produced by esperanza spalding; the body of reality ft. ganavya (composition\, singer) and Leo Genovese (piano) produced by Peter Sellars and Rajna Swaminathan. Upcoming projects include: the album let’s go out and play\, the South Asian diasporic album how to cure a ghost\, and an untitled opera commission for Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (2025 premiere) based off of the 2\,000 year old Buddhist Mahayana text the Vimalakirti Sutra and her grandmother\, Smt. Seetha Doraiswamy’s life\, featuring libretto by Robert Thurman\, composed by Ganavya and Sivan Eldar\, directed by Peter Sellars. \nHer publication work includes written guide for the Songwrights Apothecary Lab album\, shards of ether\, a collection of 101 short essays for John Zorn’s Arcana: Musicians on Music series; [ ]: on the Form behind form\, an analysis on repetition in music\, for Journal on Mutual Mentorship for Musicians. \nHer graduate degrees in music are from Berklee College of Music (contemporary performance) UCLA (ethnomusicology) and Harvard University (Creative Practice and Critical Inquiry).
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-ganavya/
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: Surrogate — Gray Area Festival 2024 Closing Night Performance
DESCRIPTION:Surrogate is a body of Lauren Lee McCarthy’s work centered around issues of reproductive technology and bodily autonomy. \nBeginning 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. \nTo close Gray Area Festival\, McCarthy will present the interactive live performance from this body of work. In her one woman show\, McCarthy takes the audience through the journey of becoming a remote-controlled surrogate. \nGet access to our performances\, conference talks\, and exhibition with the Gray Area Festival Pass\, or attend each night of performances with individual tickets.
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-surrogate-gray-area-festival-2024-closing-night-performance/
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: Introduction to Shaders and Practical Applications – Gray Area Festival 2024 Workshop
DESCRIPTION: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 variety of other real-time engines like Unity\, p5.js & touch designer. You will learn about where the shader exists in the graphics pipeline\, the basics of how the language works\, and how to quickly iterate on writing your shader using livecoding tools (code that compiles on the fly). You will also be given a plethora of tools to build upon what you learn\, so you can keep learning and practicing beyond this workshop. \nThis workshop is part of the  Gray Area Festival 2024. \nMarking Gray Area Festival’s 10th anniversary\, Gray Area 10 continues our annual survey of culture through the lens of creative practice\, featuring a conference\, performances\, and workshops.
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-introduction-to-shaders-and-practical-applications-gray-area-festival-2024-workshop/
LOCATION:Gray Area Grand Theater\, 2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240915T140000
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: Cinema Image: A Small Array of Computer Film Techniques – Gray Area Festival Workshop
DESCRIPTION: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. \nWe’ll start the workshop by looking a relevant historical examples including “flicker films” and collage films from artists including Man Ray\, Tony Conrad\, Paul Sharits\, and Stan Brakhage. The Expanded Cinema book by Gene Youngblood featured by Gray Area in 2020 is our guide. We’ll look at some examples from my own work over the last twenty years\, then we’ll walk through code examples that take images apart and use the image data to create videos that abstract the original images. These small code examples have been developed in my studio over the years to assist with making my work. \nThis workshop is part of the  Gray Area Festival 2024. \nMarking Gray Area Festival’s 10th anniversary\, Gray Area 10 continues our annual survey of culture through the lens of creative practice\, featuring a conference\, performances\, and workshops.
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-cinema-image-a-small-array-of-computer-film-techniques-gray-area-festival-workshop/
LOCATION:Gray Area Grand Theater\, 2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: The Layered Universe – Gray Area Festival Workshop
DESCRIPTION: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 selected objects will serve as conduits for prosperity and protection in another realm. \nThis workshop is part of the  Gray Area Festival 2024. \nMarking Gray Area Festival’s 10th anniversary\, Gray Area 10 continues our annual survey of culture through the lens of creative practice\, featuring a conference\, performances\, and workshops.
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-the-layered-universe-gray-area-festival-workshop/
LOCATION:Gray Area Grand Theater\, 2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: Critical Image Synthesis: Glitching the AI Imaginary – Gray Area Festival Workshop
DESCRIPTION:An AI art workshop for AI critics. From Ben Laposky to Nam June Paik\, artists who work with technology often work against it. The generative AI boom has led to a glut of kitschy and glossy reproductions from the style library of the datasets. They’ve been criticized for how their data is collected and for the biases these datasets contain. But generative computer art has a longer history\, set apart from the history of photography and illustration favored by tools such as Midjourney and Dall-E. This history of computer art bends toward the creative misuse of systems to challenge their constraint on our techno-social and artistic imaginations. How can digital artists subvert the logic of these systems\, and work toward a new visual vocabulary for AI? \nAs a founder of the Algorithmic Resistance Research Group (ARRG!) artist\, writer\, and researcher Eryk Salvaggio (cyberneticforests.com) explores generative AI as an adversary\, rather than a collaborator. In this workshop\, Salvaggio will explore conceptual and technical strategies for interrogating generative AI systems for images\, video\, and music. Attendees will leave with new ways of looking at how these models work\, and have time to develop\, test\, and share their strategies.
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-critical-image-synthesis-glitching-the-ai-imaginary-gray-area-festival-workshop/
LOCATION:Gray Area Grand Theater\, 2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: Life in 256KB: a workshop about data footprints and the solar web – Gray Area Festival Workshop
DESCRIPTION:For this workshop\, we’ll walk through real-world cases that have involved tiny data limitations and explore projects that have focused on having smaller footprints and/or powered by solar energy. Then\, we’ll explore resources and strategies for front-end / content-focused optimization and design. Finally\, attendees will have a data budget of 256kb each to make a solar-friendly website. Participants have the option to group up to pool data resources for more complex ideas. \nThis workshop is part of the  Gray Area Festival 2024. \nMarking Gray Area Festival’s 10th anniversary\, Gray Area 10 continues our annual survey of culture through the lens of creative practice\, featuring a conference\, performances\, and workshops.
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-life-in-256kb-a-workshop-about-data-footprints-and-the-solar-web-gray-area-festival-workshop/
LOCATION:Gray Area Grand Theater\, 2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: DJ_Dave + Char Stiles\, Meuko! Meuko! + NONEYE\, Rick Farin + Actual Objects\, haute.rod + Idea Unsound (AV Club)
DESCRIPTION:Gray Area Festival 10 presents a genre-defying live performance featuring experimental electronic-pop artist DJ_Dave and computational artist Char Stiles\, both known for their pioneering approach to algorave creative coding. Also performing together are Meuko! Meuko! and interdisciplinary developer and media artist NONEYE\, whose immersive\, glitchy soundscapes and ritualistic performances explore the mythological landscapes of Taiwan. The lineup includes Rick Farin with Actual Objects\, for an immersive A/V show blending original music with stunning visuals and CGI & AI characters\, all centered around a vertical LED wall. Also performing is the AV Club\, featuring SF-based algorave visualist haute.rod and left-field electronic producer Idea Unsound\, who will add their own futuristic\, layered aesthetic to this cutting-edge showcase.
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-dj_dave-char-stiles-meuko-meuko-noneye-rick-farin-actual-objects-haute-rod-idea-unsound-av-club/
LOCATION:Gray Area Grand Theater\, 2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: Portrait XO and MSHR and Douglas McCausland
DESCRIPTION:Gray Area Festival 10 presents live performances featuring researcher and artist Portrait XO\, known for their novel approaches to computation creativity and human-machine collaboration\, and audiovisual art. They are followed by audiovisual collective MSHR\, known for their installations and performances that constantly push the seams between sonic and sculptural forms. Douglas McCausland opens with a visceral and often chaotic set that explores the extremes of sound\, technology\, and the digital medium.
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-portrait-xo-and-mshr-and-douglas-mccausland/
LOCATION:Gray Area Grand Theater\, 2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240912T190000
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: Saliva Bar — Gray Area Festival 2024 Opening Night Performance
DESCRIPTION:Consumers have been trained to regularly swab\, spit\, and give up ownership of their bodily substances to corporations and government run centers. These fluids hold the data of our DNA\, personal information\, and identity. Can an individual human become your saliva deposit center instead? Can we take saliva exchange back into our own hands? \nIn this opening performance\, you are invited to exchange a sample of your saliva with one of Lauren Lee McCarthy’s own. A Terms Of Exchange outlines the artist’s intention to protect the privacy of your identity and biodata. Participants are free to do as they like with McCarthy’s own saliva. The growing collection of saliva collected by the artist through these performances is an archive of a moment when the boundaries of our bodies and DNA is shifting.
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-saliva-bar-gray-area-festival-2024-opening-night-performance/
LOCATION:Gray Area Grand Theater\, 2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: Cybernetic Countercultures Intensive - Info Session
DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in joining the Cybernetic Countercultures Intensive? Don’t miss our free info session on September 3 at 6PM PT to learn more about our new 12-week online course\, meet our team\, and ask any questions you may have.\nWe’ll be joined by lead instructor Dr. Bruno Clarke from Gaian Systems\, and TA Hannah Scott. See you there!\n🗓️ September 3 | 6PM PT\n🌱 Free RSVP: https://grayarea.org/event/cybernetic-countercultures-intensive-information-session/\n***\nLed by Dr. Bruno Clarke\, the Cybernetic Countercultures Intensive is Gray Area’s new 12-week online course. Embark on an unexpected journey through the history of cybernetics. Dive deep into organic cybernetics\, focusing on the complex behaviors of living systems. Explore the works of Gregory Bateson\, Heinz von Foerster\, Lynn Margulis\, James Lovelock\, Humberto Maturana\, and Francisco Varela\, and discover how their ecological ideas can inform today’s complex adaptive systems.\nThe Intensive kicks off on September 30 — sign up today to secure your spot!\n🗓️ September 30 – December 16\n🕗 Every Monday\, 6:00–8:00PM PST\n🎓 Scholarships Available! \nCybernetic Countercultures Intensive Online Course
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-cybernetic-countercultures-intensive-info-session/
LOCATION:Gray Area Grand Theater\, 2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: CROSSROADS 2024
DESCRIPTION:Founded by filmmaker Bruce Baillie in 1961\, San Francisco Cinematheque is the Bay Area’s premier venue for avant-garde/experimental\, underground and personally expressive film\, and video. In its dedication to exhibiting works of aesthetically radical cinema from all historical eras and geo-political locales\, Cinematheque cultivates the international field of artist-made cinema\, inspiring aesthetic dialog and critical discourse and encouraging appreciation across the broader cultural landscape. Inaugurated in 2010\, CROSSROADS is San Francisco Cinematheque’s annual film festival\, dedicated to the exhibition of contemporary avant-garde film\, video and performance work. CROSSROADS is curated annually by Cinematheque’s Artistic Director Steve Polta. \nCROSSROADS 2024 is the fifteenth iteration of the festival\, featuring 75 works of film\, video and performance by 68 artists representing 19 countries and territories presented in 10 curated programs. Major themes of this year’s festival include considerations of personal and collective history in the context of global politics; accountings of urban and natural landscape in the Anthropocene era; contemplations of erotics\, isolation and identity in an increasingly virtualized world; and the status of myth in contemporary culture. \nCinematheque is proud to announce that\, of these 68 featured artists\, 28 are receiving their CROSSROADS debut this year. Full festival details available here https://www.sfcinematheque.org/crossroads/crossroads-2024/ \nFestival Programs \nFriday\, August 30\n6:30pm – 11:00pm\n1 – utopia springs from fertile soil\n2 – we spoke of dust \nSaturday\, August 31\n12:30pm – 11:00pm\n3 – depending on the light to make a difference\n4 – obscured by clouds\n5 – seen and not seen\, they ventured inside\n6- can you tell me about the dream? \nSunday\, September 1\n12:30pm – 10:00pm\n7 – a neverending story\n8 – move forward and breathe\n9 – o’er the land\n10- an exit sign out of focus (in memoriam to identity)
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-crossroads-2024/2024-09-01/
LOCATION:Gray Area Grand Theater\, 2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: Simulation Sessions with Alexa Ann Bonomo
DESCRIPTION: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. \nMonday\, August 26\, 2024 \n6PM – 9PM \nOpen to all\, regardless of experience / skill level. \nEach session begins with a lightning talk or workshop and is followed by hacking\, hanging\, and peer-to-peer skill-sharing. \nFree RSVP \nBring your computer and current works-in-progress. \nSeated program \nView our FAQ page for more info\, or contact us at info@grayarea.org with any accommodation requests.\nAbout Simulation Sessions \nSimulation 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 simulations and environments\, these sessions seek to sustain a local community of 3D designers\, artists\, and technologists\, facilitate peer teaching and learning\, and spark dialogue about the social\, cultural\, and political dimensions of building digital worlds. \nAll\, regardless of skill or experience level\, are welcome to attend and bring their current projects (in any 3D platform\, including Unreal\, Unity\, Godot\, Three.js\, Babylon.js\, Rhino\, Blender\, Houdini\, Spline\, Womp\, TouchDesigner\, Custom 3DAI tools\, and more). \nEach session begins promptly at 6pm with a brief talk or mini-workshop led by a member of the community. At 6:30pm\, participants are invited to work on projects\, seek technical advice\, mingle\, and meet others engaged in the practice of building simulations. Feel free to arrive at any time between 6:00 and 9:00pm. \nThis Month’s Speaker\nAlexa Ann Bonomo\nAlexa Ann Bonomo is a tech artist and scholar with a deep interest in methods in preservation and archiving with an extensive skillset in creative technology. Her creative work primarily lives on the internet and other ephemeral settings in the form of net art\, creative writing and other community driven projects. Her art practice is experimental across mediums of creative coding and traditional handmade craft\, primarily new methods in printmaking and fiber arts. She is currently exasperating in existential thought about how she could “revive the Arts & Crafts movement\, but for the internet” and rapidly prototypes small artifacts in the form of websites or large scale installations. Alexa attempts to bestow light upon the unknown of vulnerable data that is emitted from one’s self. Allegorical imagery invokes serenity\, safety and charitable love for flora and fauna. She intermixes the use of born-digital art and handmade craft by handcoding websites (pure html/css/js)\, handmade print materials(cyanotype\, block printing\, fiber arts) and casting light(projection mapping). Alexa has taught various alternative and university level courses in digital design and creative coding. Currently she works on a few projects – she curates programming and teaches with Index\, works on archiving and conserving new media works with Leonardo\, and is an adjunct professor at University of San Francisco.
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-simulation-sessions-with-alexa-ann-bonomo/
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SUMMARY:Gray Area: Communal Computing Workshop: Neighborhood Internets
DESCRIPTION:We live in the age of the “personal computer” these days. Even as the internet connects billions around the world every day\, we still feel alone on the web. Our devices and interfaces were designed for individual experiences rather than collective ones. Communal Computing explores the shape of a world of “communal computers\,” filled with software made for people to create together and love each other and made by people who care about maintaining it for the long-term. How can technology bring us together and give us space to support one another and create together? How can we build it in a way that lets the human behind the design shine through the bits and circuits? \nIn this one day workshop\, we’ll explore alternative device interfaces and internet environments that foster intimacy\, co-creation\, and solidarity. The workshop is hands-on and experiential: each participant is expected to walk away with a functional “communal computing” interface. \nhttps://tickets.grayarea.org/events/f9058c5e-4fec-ea47-a717-adb5901120f8 \nNeighborhood Internets \nWhat if we could enable sharing our presence on any website at any time? \nEven though the web is teeming with thousands of people at any given moment\, we often feel alone—just our cursor in the big world wide web. Even if we’ve stumbled upon the same places or crossed paths before\, there’s no sense of who else has been there and what kind of person they are. So much of what we do is hidden from each other. \nplayhtml is an open-source library Spencer Chang made to create web interactions that are shared in real-time and saved over time. From re-creating beloved existing interactions like shared cursors and message walls to imagining new ways of sharing digital space like internet furniture and digital fingerprints\, playhtml imagines a world with a plurality of tiny internets and social networks that enable people to connect in more expressive and emergent ways than the text-centric platforms we have now\, towards an internet that feels more like a shared city that anyone can shape. \nTaking inspiration from everyday physical spaces we convene in (neighborhood cafes\, transit stops\, stoops\, dog park) and emergent interactions in products (cursor parking lot\, figma high-fives\, party in a google doc)\, we’ll enchant existing websites with real-time interactivity and create new tiny spaces that explore new ways of relating to one another and sharing space together on the web.
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-communal-computing-workshop-neighborhood-internets/
LOCATION:Gray Area Grand Theater\, 2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gray Area: Ana María Caballero: Beyond the Page Multimedia Poetry Reading\, Exhibition & Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Gray Area on August 6 as we welcome poet Ana María Caballero for an intimate evening of poetry reading and media presentation from recent bodies of work. \nRecognized as an innovative force within the nascent genre of digital poetry\, Caballero seeks to expand the ways verse is experienced and exhibited in a rapidly evolving technological age\, incorporating performance\, artificial intelligence\, code\, collage\, and choreography. \nBeyond the Page presents a brief survey of key poetic oeuvres from Caballero’s newest book Mammal\, concurrently with a reading from this text\, exemplifying the ways poetry can be expanded in the digital age. Afterwards\, stick around for a happy hour and book signing with the poet. \nAna María Caballero: Beyond the Page \nAugust 16\, 2024 \n7–9PM PST \n$20 sliding scale\nFree for Gray Area Members \nAll Ages \nNo Strobe Warning\nSeated Performance \nView our FAQ page for more info\, or contact us at info@grayarea.org with any accommodation requests.
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-ana-maria-caballero-beyond-the-page-multimedia-poetry-reading-exhibition-book-signing/
LOCATION:Gray Area Grand Theater\, 2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: AI and the Future of Live Experience
DESCRIPTION:AI and the Future of Live Experience\nDiscussion with Steve Milton\, Amy Sorokas\, Alex Kane\nModerated by Niki Selken \nDoors: 6PM\nPanel and Q&A: 6:30 – 7PM\nNetworking: 7 – 9PM \nFree for Gray Area Members \nAll Ages \nSeated & Standing Program \nView our FAQ page for more info\, or contact us at info@grayarea.org with any accommodation requests.\nJoin us for an engaging panel discussion on the future of entertainment and live experiences. With insights from leading experts in the field\, we will explore the collaborative processes\, technical integrations\, and future possibilities of AI-enhanced live entertainment. Afterwards\, enjoy a happy hour and explore large-scale AI-driven artworks displayed throughout the Grand Theater. \nEntertainment is undergoing a seismic shift\, driven by the integration of cutting-edge digital tools incorporating artificial intelligence and augmented reality. At the upcoming Outside Lands festival\, a groundbreaking collaboration will highlight Microsoft’s Copilot technology\, showcasing its creative potential in both the production and live execution of visual shows. Spearheaded by Superfly in collaboration with Volta and Microsoft\, this event will feature a set by renowned artist Seth Troxler at this year’s Outside Lands Festival. This collaboration blends Troxler’s existing visual style with innovative generative AI\, creating a seamless fusion of artistry and modern technology. The panel will delve into the collaborative process\, technical integration\, and future possibilities of AI-enhanced live entertainment\, offering insights into how these advancements are poised to redefine the audience experience. \nWith over 15 years of experience producing highly technical visual and performing arts programming for both public audiences and private events\, Gray Area has long sought to bring innovation to the service of artists\, producers\, and audiences. This panel invites new insight into ways that creators\, organizers\, and venues can harness AI to maximize impact. Join us for a rich discussion moderated by Gray Area Chairperson Niki Selken\, which will be followed afterwards by a happy hour hosted by Gray Area’s Duygu Gün and Wade Wallerstein. Guests are invited to have a drink and enjoy installations of AI-driven artworks from Yvonne Fang\, and OK Labs on display throughout the Grand Theater.
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-ai-and-the-future-of-live-experience/
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: Raising McLuhan
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a presentation and discussion about the Raising McLuhan project\, a media tech labour of love designed by media makers\, archivists\, technologists and philosophers with the aim to ‘raise’ Marshall McLuhan (as from the dead\, from a child\, from obscurity) and parent (rather than train) an AI model on McLuhan’s «body» of work and the legacy his archives hold. \nCome hear from the project team about their visions and entry points for this planned multi-year project. It begins in 2024 and 1964 when Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man was first published. The project will intimately grow to include many multimedia experiences that will deepen our understandings of how the medium is the message—then\, now\, and tomorrow.
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-raising-mcluhan/
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SUMMARY:Gray Area: Chia Amisola - My computer never asks me how many computers I had before
DESCRIPTION:“Let’s turn our computers into flowers\, rains\, suns…”\nJoin us at Gray Area on July 26th for a special evening of ambient performances\, led by Gray Area Incubator Artist Chia Amisola. Headlining with their poetic ambient work\, My computer never asks me how many computers I had before\, Amisola will be joined by invited artists exploring the boundaries of sound\, HTML\, and live A/V performance.\nAmisola’s internet ambient performances splay hundreds of windows across the screen\, inhabiting the internet as they read the text on a website\, its metadata\, desktop icons\, the terminal\, and then their own browser history. Accompanied by live ambient and samples drawn from fields to abandoned blogs\, their performances live between a poetry reading\, desktop performance\, and durational ambient performance. Intimate as it is inhabited and embodied\, they click\, scroll\, stutter\, lag\, click\, and refresh\, bringing us to realize the internet is a place we make\, and can fill.\nChia Amisola (b. 2000\, Manila) is an internet & ambient artist and designer devoted to the internet’s loss\, love\, labor\, and liberation. Their (web)site-specific practice (websites\, tools\, performance) posits creation as synonymous with liberation. Activated as ‘internet ambient’\, dense / durational / networked desktop readings where hypertext is performance\, they touch on the defaults\, opacities\, and infrastructural intimacies of the internet as an ecology\, territory\, and atmosphere.\nWith practice dating back to 2006\, including writing & software (such as gamemaking tools as games)\, digital intimacy (whenwe.love)\, placemaking & territories (their manifesto\, thesoundof.love\, on domain naming)\, religion & ritual (Visita)\, folk archival (Philippine Internet Archive)\, teaching & organizing (including pro-bono organizing 100+ events across 7+ years of programming with Developh)\, artifacts & performances (the performance of the browser\, the browser as performance)\, amongst others.\nThey are the organizer of Developh\, a critical technology institute based in the Philippines they founded in 2016\, and the Philippine Internet Archive. Most recently\, they’ve curated & programmed working on KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN!\, an exhibition of Filipino networking cultures. They graduated with a BA in Computing & the Arts with distinction from Yale University in 2022\, receiving the Sudler Prize for the creative arts. They currently are a NEW INC Art & Code member\, were a Fellow of the Processing Foundation\, resident at Gray Area (US)\, Yale Center for Collaborative Arts & Media\, and the Internet Archive’s DWeb Camp. They have spoken internationally at the Grace Hopper Celebration (US)\, Causal Islands\, UX+ (Philippines)\, Naive Yearly (Denmark) have been internationally exhibited at /rosa (Germany) and Now Play This (UK)\, performed at CultureHub (NYC)\, panke.gallery (Germany)\, and 98B (Philippines)\, recently published in Runway Journal (AUS)\,Runway Journal (AUS)\, The HTML Review\, and Rappler and have been featured in El País\, Frieze\, and The New Yorker.\nGet Tickets: https://grayarea.org/…/chia-amisola-my-computer-never…/
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-chia-amisola-my-computer-never-asks-me-how-many-computers-i-had-before/
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SUMMARY:Gray Area: Internet Ambient Workshop with Chia Amisola
DESCRIPTION:The internet is an ecology\, and our websites contain its flowers\, clouds\, stones\, & tides. This workshop-performance is an introduction to the sound of a poetic and ambient web: shaping ecosystems with computers\, website-making as world-making\, interdependent internet publishing\, and embedding field recording and deep listening practices to the online.\nThis is a workshop on sound\, websites\, networking\, and performance. Resisting the silent and subtle nature of the internet through poetic acts of website making and alternative means of ‘reading’ websites\, we’ll draw from histories of hypertext\, networking\, and desktop performance to shape a joint internet ecology\, performing a web anew together.\nEnrollment in this workshop gives you free access to Chia Amisola’s performance of My computer never asks me how many computers I had before later that day!\nEnroll today: https://grayarea.org/event/internet-ambient-workshop-with-chia-amisola/
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-internet-ambient-workshop-with-chia-amisola/
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SUMMARY:Gray Area: Intro to Generative Visuals in TouchDesigner: Creative Uses of Feedback
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a hands-on workshop where you’ll learn how to create stunning visuals using feedback techniques in TouchDesigner. Perfect for beginners\, this in-person workshop will guide you through the process of making beautiful abstract patterns and fluid-like systems\, moving beyond the typical repeating trails. \nYou’ll explore various feedback systems\, from simple motion blur and trailing effects to more complex emergent systems. TouchDesigner’s easy-to-use\, node-based interface and built-in texture tools make it the ideal platform for experimenting with these exciting visual effects. \nCourse Logistics \nDates:\nMonday\, July 15\, 2024 \nTimes:\n6–9PM PST \nCost:\n$110 for a one-day\, three-hour long workshop\nWe also offer Diversity Scholarships. Apply by July 8\, 2024. \nExperience Level:\n-Beginner \nCourse Materials:\n• A laptop (Mac or PC) AND the power supply — TouchDesigner can drain your battery pretty fast!\n• Free non-commercial license for TouchDesigner. Available by signing up for an account at https://derivative.ca.\n• A three button mouse is highly recommended — the TouchDesigner interface is specifically designed to be used with a three button mouse with a scroll wheel. Laptop track pads will work in a pinch\, but you’ll be much happier with an actual mouse. \nCourse Outline\n• Setting up feedback loops with TOPs\n• Modifying feedback signals for various outcomes\n• Using more complex operators to create emergent systems \nAdditional Information:\n• No Refunds or Exchanges.\n• View our FAQ here.\n• Contact info@grayarea.org with any questions.
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-intro-to-generative-visuals-in-touchdesigner-creative-uses-of-feedback/
LOCATION:Gray Area Grand Theater\, 2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gray Area: Simulation Sessions with Chloe Barreau
DESCRIPTION:Join us next week for Simulation Sessions\, our free monthly event series for artists\, game designers\, architects\, world builders\, and AI designers exploring 3D simulation.\n📅 Monday\, July 15 | 6PM\nThis month\, we’re welcoming Chloe Barreau\, Head of Product\, Designtime at Inworld AI. Chloe is at the forefront of integrating technology and creativity in gaming and will share insights on making Inworld’s latest advancements accessible to everyone.\nCome connect with fellow Gray Area members\, creators\, and world builders. As always\, bring your projects and ideas to share!\n🌿 Simulation Sessions is facilitated by the World Engines Lab incubated at Gray Area.\nRSVP: https://grayarea.org/event/simulation-sessions-with-chloe-barreau/
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-simulation-sessions-with-chloe-barreau/
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