Celebrate Halloween at Gray Area with a screening of The Bride of Frankenstein and the launch of Shane Denson's (@shanedenson.bsky.social) new book on the Bride of Frankenstein!
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October 30 | 6:30 PM
๐Tix: grayarea.org/event/bride-...
Spots are still open for our newest electronic music workshop: Techno Blueprint!
Over 2 days, learn the theory behind techno music and how to emulate classic sound design techniques with stock Ableton instruments and effects
๐ Nov 3 โ 5
๐ 6 โ 9PM
Enroll! grayarea.org/course/techn...
๐ณ๐ธ๐๐ธ๐ฝ๐ธ๐ฑ๐ป๐๐ณ ๐๐พ๐ผ๐พ๐๐๐พ๐!
Experience ๐ฟ๐๐จ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ก๐ช๐ by Rachika Nayar and Nina Keith tomorrow during an evening weaving together glitchy, immersive synths, warped piano, and haunting vocals
With Sally Decker
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Thursday | 7 PM
๐ Tix:https://grayarea.org/event/rachika-nayar-and-nina-keith-present-disiniblud/
As part of Swissnex's event series LAYERS, Gray Area presents Deep Fakes: A Critical Lexicon of Digital Museology, a talk by Professor Sarah Kenderdine on the unstable boundaries between preservation and simulation
RSVP:https://grayarea.org/event/deep-fakes-a-critical-lexicon-of-digital-museology/
This Thursday, experience Disiniblud by Rachika Nayar and Nina Keith! Born from queer kinship, and experimental sound, this record channels their expanding bond and creative partnership
๐ Tix: https://grayarea.org/event/rachika-nayar-and-nina-keith-present-disiniblud/
Next Friday! Author and artist ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ๐ฒ๐น ๐ง๐ฒ๐บ๐ธ๐ถ๐ป comes to Gray Area to launch his book ๐๐ค๐ง๐ฉ๐ฎ-๐๐ค๐ช๐ง ๐๐จ๐ค๐ก๐๐ฃ๐๐จ. Join us for a talk, cocktails, & a book signing.
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10/24 | 5:30 PM
๐https://grayarea.org/event/book-launch-signing-daniel-temkin-forty-four-esolangs/?preview=true
For its 24th edition, SFEMF brings three nights of experimental sound and live electronic performances to Gray Area! This yearโs lineup features artists pushing the limits of sound, software, and performance
Get Tix: https://grayarea.org/event/24th-annual-san-francisco-electronic-music-festival/
๐๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐๐๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ก + ๐
๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐๐๐ซ๐๐๐ง๐ข๐ง๐
Bride of Frankenstein with Shane Denson
๐ 10/30/25
A night of classic horror, film talk, and cocktails.
๐ https://grayarea.org/event/bride-of-frankenstein-shane-densonbook-launch-film-signing/
Back by popular demand this Fall: ๐ฝ๐ง๐๐๐๐๐ค๐๐ง๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ค๐๐ช๐ก๐๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ฉ๐๐๐จ๐๐ฏ๐๐ง๐จ workshop!
No previous experience is necessary, and all materials are provided for you!
๐ October 11 โ 12
๐ 1:00 โ 4:00PM
https://grayarea.org/course/breadboarding-modular-synthesizers-workshop/
It's our final day of ๐
๐ค๐ง๐๐๐ฃ ๐ฝ๐๐ก๐จ๐ค๐ฃ: ๐พ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐! Learn what's in store for this final day of this three-day symposium:
https://grayarea.org/event/jordan-belson-cosmogenesis/
๐ฅ Allures - 1961, 9 min, 16mm, Color, Sound
Video courtesy of the Jordan Belson Estate.
Day 2 of ๐
๐ค๐ง๐๐๐ฃ ๐ฝ๐๐ก๐จ๐ค๐ฃ: ๐พ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ begins in a few hours! Experience this full day of music, lectures, and films with Festival passes and individual tickets: https://grayarea.org/event/jordan-belson-cosmogenesis/
๐ฅ Raga - 1959
Video courtesy of the Jordan Belson Estate
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๐ค๐ง๐๐๐ฃ ๐ฝ๐๐ก๐จ๐ค๐ฃ: ๐พ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, starts today! See what's in store for tonight's opening event for our three-day symposium and get tickets:
https://grayarea.org/event/jordan-belson-cosmogenesis/
๐ฅ Momentum - 1968
Video courtesy of the Jordan Belson Estate.
This Weekend: ๐
๐ค๐ง๐๐๐ฃ ๐ฝ๐๐ก๐จ๐ค๐ฃ: ๐พ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, our three-day symposium opening this weekend, presented in partnership with SF Cinematheque and @bampfa.bsky.social
https://grayarea.org/event/jordan-belson-cosmogenesis/
๐ฅ Meditation - 1971
Courtesy of the Jordan Belson Estate
THIS THURSDAY! Composer and producer Kelly Moran presents a dynamic set featuring brand-new material alongside selections from previous work.
With Shipwreck Detective
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Thursday, September 25 | 8 PM
๐ Tickets: https://grayarea.org/event/kelly-moran-live-av/
๐๐๐ฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐๐ก๐ง๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐ฏ๐
10/11 โ 12/6, 2025 โข Online
Our popular course with award-winning critical designer, researcher, and artist Caroline Sinders returns!
Apply by October 1
โก๏ธgrayarea.org/course/responsible-technology-design-intensive-2025
Thank you all for attending & tuning in to today's talks!
See you back at the theater at 9pm for another night of audiovisual performances by Kevin Peter He + FITNESSS, Debit, and Authentically Plastic.
See you soon!
Last up is our keynote presentation by Christina Agapakis, an extremely interdisciplinary synthetic biologist working to build more creative and human futures for biotechnology.
Can't make it in person? Join us virtually with a virtual pass: https://grayareafestival.io
Up next is technologist Xiaowei R. Wang, whose work explores how the intersections of technology, environmental justice, histories of computation, and ungovernable care shape our shared reality.
Can't make it in person? Join us virtually: https://grayareafestival.io
Artist and filmmaker Kevin Peter He is up next, discussing game engines as a performance tool while simulating ecological systems.
Can't make it in person? Join us virtually with a virtual pass: https://grayareafestival.io
Up next is Miriam Simun, who will present THE INSTITUTE FOR TRANSHUMANIST CEPHALOPOD EVOLUTION, exploring the future of the human amidst rising seas and accelerating technological change.
Can't make it in person? Join us virtually with a virtual pass: https://grayareafestival.io
Next up is micha cรกrdenas, who will talk about how art shaped by trans, queer, and disabled experiences can confront dehumanization and crisis by imagining new forms of life beyond the human.
Can't make it in person? Join us virtually with a virtual pass: https://grayareafestival.io
Scholar, author, and professor Shane Denson @shanedenson.bsky.social, is up now discussing the tension between technologyโs drive toward perfection and the embodied realities of glitch, detour, and breakdown
Can't make it in person? Join us virtually with a virtual pass: https://grayareafestival.io
Up next! Stephanie Zhang is giving her talk, "Emergent Vessels", exploring her work creating self-assembling sculptures via 3D bioprinting.
Can't make it in person? Join us virtually with a virtual pass: https://grayareafestival.io
Day 3 of ๐๐ซ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐
๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐๐: ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ผ๐๐ is starting! Researcher and writer Toby Shorin start with a talk that will explore how the body has become the new premise for cultural developments.
Join us virtually with a virtual pass: https://grayareafestival.io
Thank you to everyone that came to today's conference! Now on to tonightโs performances featuring Onyx Ashanti, Ash Fure, Briana Marela Lizรกrraga starting at 9PM.
Free for Pass holders/Individual Tickets still available
See you there!
grayareafestival.io/performances
๐ฅOnyx Ashanti
Our first day of speakers ends with a keynote presentation by performance artist Stelarc!
Join us virtually with a virtual pass to hear him discuss how technological interventions like body hacking are reshaping our understanding of the body, humanity, and what it means to be alive.
Up next: artist, filmmaker, and writer Zach Blas, whose practice explores the philosophies, fantasies, and histories embedded in computational technologies and the industries shaping Silicon Valleyโs visions of the future.
Join us virtually with a virtual pass: https://grayareafestival.io
Going on a short break! See you in a few minutes for Zach Blas
Closing out this next group of speakers is artist, writer, and educator Alice Bucknell, who will present an immersive look into her expansive worlding practice.
Can't make it in person? Join us virtually with a virtual pass: https://grayareafestival.io
