Gray Area Grand Theater

Caffeinated and wildly energized, the far-reaching video works of Andrew Norman Wilson surf psychedelic landscapes littered with pop-cultural detritus, interrogating modes of image production while critiquing ideologies and aesthetics of contemporary techno-capitalism. With a fascination for fractal forms, spatio-temporal wormholes, infinity zooms and endlessly meandering, ever-forking narrativity, Wilson’s works explore the hall-of-mirrors doom loop of […]

Join renowned interdisciplinary theorist Prof. Karen Barad and visionary artists, Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa of Black Quantum Futurism, for an evening of conversation and sound exploring material quantum temporalities. […]

Gray Area Incubator projects explore the intersection of art, technology and social critique. 6:00pm: Doors open 6:30 - 8:00 pm: 10 Minute Talks Open to the public sliding scale entry […]

algorithmic art party planners AV Club SF are back from the #FFFFFFing crypt. with an early saturday event to kick start and curse ur biggest halloween night in the bay. ▘▗▖◟◜◜◜◝◝◝◝◜◜▗▞◡◡◠◎◎◎◎◎◠◡▞▘▗▖▖▖ 7 audiovisual performances. 16 artists from SF, Berlin, and NYC. live electronic music and visual art made with projected code 💻 analog hardware 🔨 […]

Are you ready to be inspired by some of the most visionary Latino leaders from our state? Do you want to reconnect with the LCF Familia of donors and funding partners who believe in our collective dreams? Great! Now imagine that while experiencing magical art installations from Mexican sculptor, Fernando Escartiz and a special Accelerator […]

Crip Rave lands at Gray Area with a massive headliner set from Toronto-based Ciel, supported by hot local acts Very Much Romance, DJ Ladybug & Dax Pierson, with visuals by […]

Gray Area Festival 2023 presents a special performance by music producer, conceptual artist and sound designer Jimmy Edgar and experimental dancer Maija Knapp who will perform music from Edgar's genre-bending 2022 album LIQUIDS HEAVENS. Get access to our performances, conference talks, and exhibition with the Gray Area Festival Pass, or attend each night of performances […]

A special presentation of CripTech Metaverse Prototypes, C/Change Projects,Decentralized Web Artworks, and live performances. Get access to our performances, conference talks, and exhibition with the Gray Area Festival Pass, or […]

Join multimedia artist Anna Mikkola for a multi-sensory performance exploring the coexistence of synthetic and organic life forms. Anna Mikkola's 'This Earth-Like Planet' (2019-ongoing) is a performative reading that explores the porosity of bodies and ideologies as well as the coexistence of synthetic and organic life forms. With a simulation of the Earth in parallel […]

FULL SCREENING DETAILS: https://bit.ly/3DGGZvZ Opening with two films on familial displacement and solitary inward questing, CROSSROADS 2023 concludes with notes of belief—works of visual and poetic philosophy considering repetition, change, velocity, perpetual motion, desiccated leisure and displaced labor. Time, formed from stars, acretes, flows, freezes, even stagnates and festers at the horizons of the oscillating […]

👁️ Paul Vanouse and Skawennati 🔮 Closing Night Panel Discussion Join us for the closing night of Difference Machines! Meet the Exhibition Curator, Paul Vanouse, and the artist Skawennati. Experience […]

Come celebrate the opening of the Difference Machines exhibition with curators Tina Rivers Ryan and Paul Vanouse, while enjoying drinks served throughout the evening. Tickets: https://grayarea.org/exhibitions/difference-machines/ Gray Area is proud to present Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art, showcasing the work of seventeen artists that spans the last three decades, from software-based and […]