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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: THIRST with Franck Vigroux & Werktank
DESCRIPTION:Gray Area and Recombinant Media Labs are excited to have Franck Vigroux back with the world premiere of THIRST . \nA concert featuring pulsating live electronic music\, THIRST transcends the boundaries of traditional audiovisual performance by utilizing multi-projections of images. Drawing inspiration from the lexicon of road movies\, Americanized iconography\, and hyper-colored\, image-saturated aesthetics\, it offers a sensory journey that prompts reflections on past symbols of transgression\, picaresque adventures\, and romanticism. These symbols are now challenged by contemporary societal\, digital\, and environmental developments.
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-thirst-with-franck-vigroux-werktank/
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: Mélanie Courtinat - The Siren (exhibition opening)
DESCRIPTION:Gray Area presents the US premiere of The Siren\, a new video game by French artist Mélanie Courtinat. \nExhibition Opening\nMélanie Courtinat: The Siren \nWednesday\, February 12\, 2025\nDoors: 6PM  \nGray Area is pleased to present Mélanie Courtinat: The Siren\, a solo exhibition and the US premiere of a new video game work by French artist Mélanie Courtinat. Join us in the Gray Area Gallery on February 12 for an opening reception and guided playthrough with curator Wade Wallerstein. \nAbout The Siren \nThe Siren (2024) is an interactive experience built with Unreal Engine that questions the traditional conventions of video games. \nIn the game\, players embody a heroine wearing a shining suit of armor who wanders aimlessly along a beach at dusk. Once in control\, players explore this beautiful and austere world under the watchful eye of an omniscient narrator. The narrator prompts players to undertake the seemingly arbitrary task—or side quest—of collecting bioluminescent seashells scattered across the sand. Only by collecting all of the shells can the player advance to the main quest: rescuing a damsel in distress. \nThough rendered in ultra-high definition fidelity\, resembling the hyperrealistic outputs of mass market AAA game studio productions\, The Siren’s unique mechanics make it a distinctly different experience. The work elides a blockbuster main storyline and instead hones in on the droll imperatives and mundane taskings present in most video games. In this way\, The Siren probes the meanings we assign to actions within gamespace\, our relationships to the worlds we inhabit\, and the motivations behind our playful engagements. \nThis experience is designed to be accessible to all visitors\, including gaming newcomers\, while also providing an additional meta-level of understanding for seasoned players. \n“The Siren” is presented in San Francisco with support from Villa Albertine\, in partnership with the Albertine Foundation\, the Institut Français\, and the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs. Gray Area is proud to be a 2025 French Immersion Laureate institution. \nThe Siren was originally commissioned by the Pully Art Museum as part of their exhibition “Vivre l’œuvre / Voyage aux frontières de l’art immersif contemporain”.
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-melanie-courtinat-the-siren-exhibition-opening/
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: BYOB - Bring Your Own Beamer
DESCRIPTION:An ephemeral night of digital art awaits! Dreamed up by net-art visionary Rafaël Rozendaal\, BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) is a one-night-only exhibition and playground for artists to showcase their work. \nAbout BYOB\nBYOBs are immersive\, spontaneous\, and always surprising. BYOB is an exploration of the medium of projection\, and a venue for inspiration. It’s a rare treat for anyone who is interested in video art\, generative art\, video hardware\, or just a fun night out.\nFor this event\, numerous artists will be featured\, showcasing a diverse array of artworks.
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-byob-bring-your-own-beamer/
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: Simulation Sessions with Omelia Thompson
DESCRIPTION:Join us for January’s Simulation Session\, our free monthly event series facilitated by the World Engines Lab helping sustain our local community of 3D designers\, artists\, and technologists.\n📅 Monday\, January 27 | 6–9PM\nThis month\, we’re welcoming video programming specialist Omelia Thompson! With experience in training AI\, writing shaders\, computer vision\, and complex mathematics\, Omelia will be sharing Dodecaplex\, a 4D game engine inspired by sacred geometry and magic. It’s written entirely in C/C++.\nBring your projects and ideas to share and workshop them with fellow Gray Area members\, creators\, and world builders. As always\, drop by anytime between 6–9PM!
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-simulation-sessions-with-omelia-thompson/
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: Mercury Soul featuring ODC/Dance
DESCRIPTION:Journey through music\, light\, and movement with classical ensembles\, visceral DJ sets\, and incredible dance performances while immersed in mind-blowing visuals.  Legendary dance company ODC joins Mercury Soul at the cutting-edge Gray Area for a not-to-be-missed collaboration.  In between DJ sets by DJ Masonic (Mason Bates) and DJ Justin Reed\, experience classical masterpieces by Chopin\, Mozart\, Piazzolla\, Mendelssohn\, Adams\, Bach\, and Bates. \nFeaturing:\nODC/Dance\nEclecta Quartet\nDJ Masonic (Mason Bates)\nDJ Justin Reed (illmeasures\, Chicago)\nand many more\nplus immersive visuals by Mark Johns \nSaturday\, January 25th at 7:30pm\nGray Area: 2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110\nTickets are $65 General Admission / $130 VIP\nAll ages.
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-mercury-soul-featuring-odc-dance/
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: Gretchen Andrew: Facetune Portraits (Opening Night)
DESCRIPTION:On the occasion of SF Art Week 2025\, Gray Area is pleased to announce an exhibition of newly commissioned oil paintings by Gretchen Andrew.\nOpening Night: January 23\, 4 – 8PM \nFacetune Portraits contemplates the near-ubiquitous contemporary practice of digital\, AI-enabled body modification. Weaving conceptual and practical threads from traditions in both generative art and traditional portraiture\, Gretchen Andrew creates oil paintings that examine changing perceptions of beauty in the algorithmic age. \nAlgorithmic filters—readily available on social media platforms and video communication tools—promise a more ‘appealing’ version of ourselves. Gretchen challenges this ideal by employing custom-built robotics to physically apply ‘beautifying’ algorithms on to wet oil paintings. \nFor her portraits at Gray Area\, Gretchen conducted sittings with prominent Bay Area figures. After painting each subject’s likeness by hand\, Gretchen uses her custom robotics to transform the image—applying a machinic stroke to paint algorithmic ‘beautifying’ changes to the subject’s appearance. The resulting Facetune Portraits render visible the dissonance between our natural state and the technologically-perfected image\, coexisting uncomfortably on the canvas. \nEach unique\, one-of-one painting is available for sale. Please direct all inquiries to wade@grayarea.org
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-gretchen-andrew-facetune-portraits-opening-night/
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: DENTAXUVIA by Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou & Huntrezz Janos
DESCRIPTION:Join us on January 10 for a live mixed reality performance experience that fractures the boundary between the virtual and the physical. \nThrough a cyber-feminist tale of dreams\, post-apocalyptic cities\, and queer love\, DENTAXUVIA follows the supernatural journey of a duo and their avatars into the quantum and vast depths of the infinite potential of the future. \nThe performance fuses the unique artistic visions of Huntrezz Janos and Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou\, utilizing technology\, sculpture\, and poetry to conjure a fragmented futuristic scene of cyberpunk insurgents. \nIn this sci-fi explosion of visuals\, the tangible meets the intangible as Huntrezz and Antigoni perform in wearable sculptures and as avatars in their virtual world. The result is an act of queer resistance that sheds their old skins and identities\, empowering them to reclaim agency in the face of oppression and igniting belief that anyone can do the same. \nThis performance is organized as an off-site activation for Janos and Tsagkaroupoulou’s solo exhibition DENTAXUVIA – Chapter 1: Corporeal Conversations—on view November 16\, 2024 – January 18\, 2025 at Telematic Media Arts in San Francisco’s SoMa District—in which the artists have transformed their theatrical performance into an interactive installation. \nThe development of DENTAXUVIA was supported by TRANSFER\, a fiscally-sponsored research & development project of Gray Area\, and Onassis ONX.
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-dentaxuvia-by-antigoni-tsagkaropoulou-huntrezz-janos/
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: Simulation Sessions December 2024
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\, December 16\, 2024 \n6PM – 9PM (drop by anytime!) \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.
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-simulation-sessions-december-2024/
LOCATION:Gray Area Grand Theater\, 2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: ML Buch
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an immersive journey into the sonic world of Danish composer and producer ML Buch as she performs music from Suntub.\nSuntub is the second full length album from ML Buch\, a double record of 15 pieces by the Danish composer and producer\, entering further into the realm of electric guitars and layered vocals along with exploring new instrumental expressions.\nSince 2021\, ML Buch has released windows into Suntub in the form of Fleshless hand (2021) and Somewhere / High speed calm air tonight (2022). Suntub unfolds this world in full with its tall skies\, river mouths and singing tracks. With an offset in open tunings on a 7-string Stratocaster\, slide and fretless tablet guitars and deep-sampled virtual guitars\, the album draws up narratives and locations in a distant time. Props like puddles\, well buckets\, bone barrels and flesh rags live in these scenes\, suspended in air\, drifting about\, climbing stairs and ladders\, all given life through guitar sensibilities and visceral vocals.\nLike ML Buch’s overall practice\, Suntub is both utterly precise and intuitively fluid. Vocal and instrumental pieces counterbalance\, giving the album its own unique pace. Some motives are disjointed\, others flaring\, oddly familiar and highly personal. It holds distractions and temperament with the same intensity\, perhaps a relic of the artist’s deep engagement with the record\, which was initiated five years ago and has since then been written\, recorded\, produced and mixed by ML Buch herself.\nGet tickets: https://grayarea.org/event/ml-buch/
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-ml-buch/
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: Recombinant Media Labs and Gray Area present Recombinant 2024: Doors to Zero
DESCRIPTION:December 5\nMotion Control MODELL 5 by Granular Synthesis\nPlaything as performed by Maryanne Amacher \nDecember 6\nAKOUSMA ElectroAcoustic Spatial Audio Program:\nHoracio Vaggione / Estelle Schorpp / Shane Turner\nRobin Fox – TRIPTYCH (Realtime Laser Works) :: Antimatter – Live Premiere \nDecember 7\nLive Performances:\nSHAO / Kyoka / Ma Haiping (MHP) / Le Fou / N3ZHA\n33emybw Curated AV works :: DJ – fallen matter / kk.Shucko \n3-day Visual Exhibit:\nShigetoshi Furutani \nhttps://tickets.grayarea.org/events?category=Festival
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-recombinant-media-labs-and-gray-area-present-recombinant-2024-doors-to-zero/2024-12-07/
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SUMMARY:Gray Area: Breadboarding Modular Synthesizers
DESCRIPTION:In this hands-on workshop\, you will learn how to design basic electronic oscillators with integrated circuits and discrete components. These principals will allow us to synthesize musical sounds from the ground up and arrange them into melodic and rhythmic patterns. \nOver the course of two days\, we will focus on two circuit typologies: square wave oscillators for synthesizing pitched instruments and sine wave oscillators for emulating percussive sounds. After learning how to build these circuits out on breadboards\, we’ll explore two ways of interacting with our circuits – one a button-based system for actuating sounds\, and another an automated circuit for sequencing them. \nBy the end of the workshop\, you will have built your own unique\, playable instrument capable of generating synth melodies and sequencing drum patterns in real-time. \nNo previous experience is necessary and all materials are provided for you in this workshop.\nCourse Logistics \nDates: Saturday November 23 & Sunday November 24\, 2024 \nTimes: 1-4PM PT \nLocation: Gray Area / Grand Theater\n2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110 \nCost: $250 \nScholarship: We also offer Diversity Scholarships.\nApply by November 9\, 2024. \nExperience Level: Beginner \nRequirements:\n• No additional tools required \nAdditional Information:\n• No refunds or exchanges\n• View our FAQ here\n• Contact info@grayarea.org with any questions\nWorkshop Outline \nDay 1 \n    Build out a basic square wave oscillator + amplifier\n    Build out a basic twin-T sine wave oscillator\n    Troubleshooting and Q&A with an explanation of both circuits \nDay 2 \n    Using buttons and switches as an interface\n    Build out sequencer with binary counter + multiplexer\n    Circuit variations and discussion of further possibilities
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-breadboarding-modular-synthesizers/2024-11-24/
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: StoryScroll: Share your Life Story with AI Tools
DESCRIPTION:Sharing personal stories is a powerful way to express your perspective\, celebrate differences\, and uncover shared values. Across cultures\, gathering around a table for a meal often creates a warm\, trusting environment for storytelling. Inspired by the many dinners shared in lead artist Cheng Xu’s kitchen\, we’ve developed a virtual dinner host designed to encourage the exchange of life stories. \nIn this workshop\, you’ll be guided by StoryScroll (formerly Dragon Delusion)\, a custom AI tool that helps you visually tell your story. Acting as a virtual dinner host\, StoryScroll will guide you step by step to discover your story\, add details\, and bring it to life through visuals. We will also take a behind-the-scenes look at the popular AI tools that contributed to StoryScroll‘s creation. \nWhether you’re seeking self-discovery\, healing\, or simply a meaningful exchange\, this introspective journey offers something for everyone. \nThis workshop is offered through the BAVC Media VERSED program. VERSED is a series of hybrid workshops\, hands-on labs\, virtual and in-person trainings for media makers to skill up\, spark and sustain careers in the media arts on a free or below-market basis. This program is made possible by a generous donation from the National Endowment for the Arts.\nDates: Tuesday November 19 & Thursday November 21\, 2024\nTimes: 6:30PM – 8:00PM PT\nEnroll today: https://grayarea.org/course/storyscroll-share-your-life-story-with-ai-tools/
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-storyscroll-share-your-life-story-with-ai-tools/2024-11-21/
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 - November
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.\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. All\, 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). Each 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.\nFREE RSVP: https://grayarea.org/event/simulation-sessions-november/
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-simulation-sessions-november/
LOCATION:Gray Area Grand Theater\, 2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gray Area Grand Theater: Lusine + Arms and Sleepers + Yppah – Earth To Moon tour
DESCRIPTION:‘Earth To Moon’ North American Tour\nThis fall\, three internationally renowned producers will team up for a joint tour across North America. Lusine (Ghostly International)\, Arms and Sleepers (Pelagic Records) and Yppah (Future Archive Recordings\, ex-Ninja Tune) will each bring their own brand of experimental electronic music on the road. Each producer will be touring with their own live musicians. The three artists will also release a collaborative new single at the start of the tour.\nLusine official website \nHome \n\n@lusine.official\nArms and Sleepers official website\nhttps://armsandsleepers.com\n@armsandsleepers\nYppah\nhttps://yppah.bandcamp.com\n@yppahmusic\nGet tickets: https://tickets.grayarea.org/events/543cd92c-bad1-fd4e-11f4-3c648f69360a
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/gray-area-grand-theater-lusine-arms-and-sleepers-yppah-earth-to-moon-tour/
LOCATION:Gray Area Grand Theater\, 2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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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/
LOCATION:Gray Area Grand Theater\, 2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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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/
LOCATION:Gray Area Grand Theater\, 2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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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/
LOCATION:Gray Area Grand Theater\, 2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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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/
LOCATION:Gray Area Grand Theater\, 2665 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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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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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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