• Gray Area Grand Theater: Andrew McLuhan teaches Understanding Media Intensive: Part two

    Gray Area Grand Theater 2665 Mission St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join a group of like-minded people from around the world for the newest cohort of Understanding Media Intensive: Part Two, the second of a three-part intensive survey of Marshall McLuhan‘s major 1964 work Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, taught by Andrew McLuhan, Director of The McLuhan Institute. Over 13 weeks we will cover chapters […]

  • Gray Area Grand Theater: Weirding AI: Fine tuning and RAG for Poets & Artists

    Gray Area Grand Theater 2665 Mission St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    This 2-day workshop invites participants to explore the intersection of AI-generated poetry and queer poetics, crafting their own fine-tuned, AI-driven poetic voices. Rather than simply prompting a language model, participants will engage in the deeper creative act of designing the datasets that shape AI’s expressive potential—curating its tone, constraints, and poetic identity. We’ll examine AI […]