Gray Area Grand Theater

Gray Area presents a special night of artist-made films, selected by internet artist performer Molly Soda. Soda will be present to introduce the films, and afterwards will participate in a Q&A moderated by Gray Area Associate Curator Wade Wallerstein. Bringing together a diverse group of artists, Good Modeling Picture!! offers a variety of perspectives on […]

On April 30, William Basinski brings his signature approach to experimental music to Gray Area. A classically trained composer who has worked in experimental media for over 30 years, from New York City to California, Basinski uses obsolete technology and analog tape loops to shape haunting, slow-moving soundscapes that linger on memory, impermanence, and the […]

Tidal Transmissions: Navigation is a live audiovisual work by CROSSLUCID, centered on T I D E (Tidal Intelligence Data Engine) — a self-evolving ecosystem of AI entities that process real-time oceanic data and adapt how they communicate in response to changing conditions. Drawing on Indigenous Pacific navigation practices, particularly Marshallese stick charts that map wave […]

SF Cinematheque presents six films by Gordon Matta-Clark from 1971–1976, showcasing his radical “building cuts” and experimental interventions that use film to explore boundaries and space. Program introduced by Dylan Adamson & Jessamyn Fiore Gordon Matta-Clark, the artist, urban explorer and “anarchitect” most famous for the “building cuts” he performed on various decomposing structures in […]

Join us this April at Gray Area's Cybernetics Book Club. This month, Cybersentics Book Club discusses the idea that emotions have fixed, measurable shapes that transcend culture and can be induced through touch alone. Though contested, Clyne's theory of sentic shapes casts a long shadow, most notably informing Rosalind Picard's work on affective computing. This […]

A shared bill of solo sets and a brand new collaboration from two singular composers working across ambient sound, improvisation, and experimental composition. Jensen brings music from “In holiday clothing, out of the great darkness,” her acclaimed 2025 album, named one of NPR Music’s best albums of 2025, with NPR’s Tom Huizenga describing it as […]

Jaron Lanier and Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, come together at Gray Area for an evening of film, conversation, and live performance. The program includes a screening of ¡Que viva México! (1930), by legendary filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, followed by a discussion and a duo performance with Lanier and DJ Spooky.

For the first time since 2015, Japanese art rock quartet OOIOO, led by YoshimiO (Boredoms, myriad other projects) since 1996 as a vehicle for experimental, fluid and evolving "rock" group compositions comes to the USA for a brief tour anchored around the inaugural Open Melody Festival in Los Angeles. 8 albums into their career, OOIOO […]

For version 3.0 of the Algorithmic Art Assembly, Gray Area is pleased to host a solo exhibition of work by Scottish-born artist Ruaridh Law, curated by Thorsten Sideboard. Triadic Paths is a collection of three works Law's oeuvre, each tripartite in some way. Having previously exhibited outdoors, in clubs, in group gallery shows and more […]

Join us this March at Gray Area's Cybernetics Book Club. Marshall McLuhan was by no means a prophet, but he was certainly a pioneer in the study of the ways electric media transform society. How are people changed by the instruments they employ? What do media do to the people who use them? These are […]

In 2016 MIT Press published The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty, a book that clearly mapped the emergence of planetary computation and imagined the next decade with rigor, humor and precision. It established a new kind of philosophy of technology, integrating computer science, design, and cultural theory into a deeply influential new synthesis. From chip […]