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Gray Area Stays With the Trouble

The Brooklyn Rail

2024/03/01

Gray Area Elevates Commitment to the Cultural Reconstruction of San Francisco with the Appointment of New Board of Directors

Gray Area

2023/11/21

CripTech Metaverse Lab Engages Disabled Creators to Prototype the Future of Immersive Technologies

Gray Area

2023/08/01

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s “Techs-Mechs” redefines innovation.

COOL HUNTING

2023/04/10

Reclaiming the Technology of Surveillance and Deportation

KQED

2023/03/29

Mohawk Artist Skawennati Awarded 2022 Hewlett 50 Arts Commissions Grant in Partnership with Gray Area
Presenting They Sustain Us, A New Mixed-Reality Performance Work

Gray Area

2022/10/26

Gray Area Announces New Online Intensive Education Programs to Empower Artists and Technologists to Imagine a More Equitable Digital Future

Gray Area

2022/09/01

Chinese Dissident Artist Badiucao Launches First NFT Collection in Protest of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

Gray Area

2021/12/26

Gray Area Announces Opening of Nocturne X, New Immersive Art and Technology Exhibition

Gray Area

2021/09/09

Gray Area Announces Six New Appointments To Board Of Directors

Gray Area

2020/12/03

Photos: Gray Area Showcase 2019.2

Gray Area Photos

2019/11/21

What Happens if the Earth Gains Consciousness? The interactive art pop-up The End of You

Wired

2020/02/11

A New Wave of Interactive Art Is Taking Over San Francisco

The Bold Italic

2020/01/15

3 Ways To Support Gray Area This Giving Season

Photos: Gray Area Festival 2019

Gray Area Photos

2019/08/08

Gray Area Announces Josette Melchor’s Leadership Transition at 5th Annual Festival

Gray Area

2019/08/02

Strap On Your Exoskeleton And Dance, Dance, Dance

Wired

2019/07/30

Enter Hell in a Robotic Exoskeleton, at Gray Area Festival

SF Weekly

2019/07/23

Electronic Music Pioneer Suzanne Ciani to Premiere Audiovisual Piece at Gray Area Festival

SF Station

2019/06/27

Photos: Rush V1

Gray Area Photos

2019/06/07

Gray Area Incubator Artist Salon 2019.1

Gray Area Photos

2019/04/26

Photos: Algorithmic Art Assembly

Gray Area Photos

2019/03/27

Algorithmic Art Assembly

San Francisco Chronicle

2019/03/18

Immersive Design Reality Mixer

Gray Area Photos

2019/02/21

Photos: Gray Area Showcase 2018.2

Gray Area Photos

2018/12/05

How Christie’s So-Called ‘AI-Generated’ Art Sale Proves That Records Can Distort History

Artnet News

2018/10/29

Mission District’s Gray Area exists where art, technology intersect

San Francisco Chronicle

2018/07/23

Gray Area Announces Lineup for Annual Art, Music and Tech Festival

KQED Arts

2018/06/26

Photos: ‘discrete figures’ by Rhizomatiks x Elevenplay | Gray Area 10 Year

Gray Area Photos

2018/04/19

Photos: Noise Pop Presents Cuco

Gray Area Photos

2018/02/24

Team Human Episode 77 Live at Gray Area: LAUREN MCCARTHY

Team Human

2018/02/17

Team Human Episode 75 Live at Gray Area: ANNALEE NEWITZ

Team Human

2018/02/16

Community Resilience after the Oakland Ghost Ship Fire

Gray Area Press Release

2017/12/15

Bay Area VR Artists Going Behind the Oculus

San Francisco Magazine

2017/11/01

Photos: RITE 2017 Ballet

Gray Area Photos

2017/06/30

Photos: UNSEEN series | Summer 2017

Gray Area Photos

2017/06/22

Photos: “Real Boy” Indie Lens Pop-Up Screening

Gray Area Photos

2017/05/31

Josette Melchor on creating something that’s bigger than you

The Creative Independent

2017/05/19

How artists are marking Trump’s 100th day in office

CNN

2017/04/29

Party Radar: Without Borders

48 Hills

2017/04/27

Gray Area raised more than $1 million for Ghost Ship, hopes to wrap distribution soon

Mission Local

2017/04/16

Gray Area Foundation for the Arts’ Oakland Fire Fund Final Distribution for Relief & Recovery Allocations

Gray Area Press Release

2017/04/14

Seaquence – Growin’ groove in a Petri dish

Creative Applications Network

2017/03/14

Photos: Fall 2016 Cultural Incubator Showcase

Gray Area Photos

2017/02/23

Ghost Ship Victims Benefit Album Features Daphni, Owen Pallett, Róisín Murphy, More

Pitchfork

2017/01/09

California Today: An Outpouring of Support in Oakland

The New York Times

2016/12/06

Best of the Bay 2016: Editor’s Pick

48 Hills

2016/10/20

The Meaning of Online Life

The New Republic

2016/06/15

Moogfest visitors remix ‘Realiti’ by Grimes using Microsoft Kinect installation

Microsoft

2016/06/14

Beach House’s SF intimate ‘installation show’ a vivid dream

SF Gate

2016/04/27

Photos: Gray Area Festival 2016

Gray Area Photos

2016/04/21

Google’s psychedelic ‘paint brush’ raises the oldest question in art

The Washington Post

2016/03/10

Google’s Artificial Brain Is Pumping Out Trippy—And Pricey—Art

WIRED

2016/02/29

RA Review: Robert Henke Lumière II in San Francisco

Resident Advisor

2015/11/03

The Mission District’s Gray Area Incubates Fugue Machine, A Multi-Playhead Sequencer

Techcrunch

2015/10/08

Photos: Robert Henke’s Lumière II

Gray Area Photos

2015/10/15

Photos: Creative Code Meetup XIX

Gray Area Photos

2015/07/02

An Arts and Tech Community Finds a New Home in San Francisco

The Creators Project

2015/06/02

Photos: 2015 The Gray Area Festival

Gray Area Photos

2015/05/21

Photos: Urban Protyping Research Lab

Gray Area Photos

2015/04/09

Arts And Tech Non-Profit Gray Area Is A Symbol For A Changing City

Techcrunch

2014/05/13

What the Feds Can Learn About Open Government From States and Cities

Slate Magazine

2013/11/01

Creative Code Meetup V with Active Theory, Reza Ali, and Ken Murphy

Gray Area Photos

2013/09/12

Photos: Techno Casino

Gray Area Photos

2013/06/08

3 Creative Ways To Visualize Urban Public Transportation

Fast Company

2013/04/19

Hacking is Good for Democracy

Wired

2013/01/31

Creating Prototypes For Urban Space, By Combining Art And Tech

Fast Company

2012/11/22

Photos: UP: San Francisco Street Festival & Exposition

Gray Area Photos

2012/10/20

Digitally Enhancing Public Spaces at the Urban Prototyping Makeathon

Wired

2012/10/06

The Next Generation of DIY Urbanism Projects: So Much Cooler Than Parklets

Atlantic Cities

2012/08/27

Photos: Paper-Based Electronics for Creative Expression

Gray Area Photos

2012/08/05

SF’s Mid-Market gets Tech Aid to Lift its Fortunes

San Francisco Chronicle

2012/05/19

Applying Cybertechniques to Urban Problems

New York Times

2012/05/07

San Franciscans Bring Startup Approach to Homeless

Associated Press

2012/05/06

Gray Area Receives $100,000 NEA Arts in Media Grant to Support National Data Canvas

Press Release

2012/04/25

3 Hackathons Trying to Change the World

Mashable

2012/04/18

dorkbotSF: Stelarc, Mark Pauline, & Leo Villareal

Gray Area Photos

2012/03/30

Photos: Art Hack Weekend SF: A WebGL + HTML5 Hackathon

Gray Area Photos

2012/03/02

Flood of Government Data Fuels Rise in City Apps

Associated Press

2011/11/26

San Francisco Hackers Work With The City To Make It Run Smoother

Fast Company

2011/10/05

Photos: Atom™ x 2 “GND ∞” & “HD/AV”

Gray Area Photos

2011/09/27

Visualizing The Traffic Of Rome, Paris, And Tel Aviv

Fast Company

2011/07/28

Photos: Summer of Smart: Sustainability + Transportation + Energy

Gray Area Photos

2011/07/22

Art in Storefronts Returns to Central Market

San Francisco Arts Commission

2011/04/11

The ARTery Project Partners Activate Central Market with New Exhibitions

San Francisco Arts Commission

2011/02/23

Global Game Jam 2011: San Francisco

Gray Area Photos

2011/01/30

Once Again, Revitalizing Market Street

Wall Street Journal

2011/01/06

The Edge of Progress Tour: Technological Art and Robotic Filmmakers in San Francisco

GOOD

2010/12/06

Milieux Sonores Opening

Gray Area Photos

2010/11/19

Photos: Symposium and A/V Performances by Ezekiel Honig, Joshue Ott, and David Last

Gray Area Photos

2010/10/08

A Wealth Of (Visual) Information

Forbes

2010/09/08

Momentum for a Revitalized Arts District

The New York Times

2010/07/29

Review of City Centered A Festival of Locative Media and Urban Community

Culture Debate

2010/11/25

Making Sense of SENSEable Cities

IBM Smarter Planet

2010/06/21

Media Arts Festival Rewires Tenderloin

The Bay Citizen

2010/06/09

SF Designers Create New Art Form with Music, Images

ABC News

2010/05/02

Creative Spaces and Innovation

Design Mind Frog Design

2010/04/04

Photos: Gray Area Studio Exhibition: PROTOTYPE

Gray Area Photos

2010/01/09

TED’s Next Challenge

Forbes

2009/12/14

Photos: Seaquence

Gray Area Photos

2009/12/05

Gray Area Foundation for the Arts Grand Opening (on KTVU 2 NEWS)

How Community Arts Organizations Are Using Social Media

Mashable

2009/07/08

Mid-Market arts district may finally premiere

SF Business Times

2009/05/24

Ghostly International 10 Year Anniversary

Gray Area Photos

2009/03/07

Recombinant Media Labs Teams up with Gray Area for Downtown Arts Corridor

SF Weekly

2009/02/19

Photos: Gray Area Gallery 2.0

Gray Area Photos

2008/04/21

Tenderloin Breakthrough: Art Gallery Replaces Porno Shop

BeyondChron

2007/05/21

Technology for social good: how digital artists are using their work to promote inclusivity

The Art Newspaper

2024/01/18

Rafael Lozano Hemmer

Art Forum

2023/09/01

Difference Machines
Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art
July 7 – August 31, 2023

Gray Area

2023/06/08

Gray Area’s New Show TECHS-MECHS Celebrates Media Artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Sprawling, Immersive Body of Work

SFist

2023/03/24

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: TECHS-MECHS
A Survey of Mexican Technological Culture
March 16 – May 31, 2023

Gray Area

2023/01/31

Kyle McDonald: Amends
Gray Area Releases Three Sculptures by Kyle McDonald on Foundation, OpenSea and Rarible in Project That Aims to Mitigate NFT Marketplace Emissions for $24M

Gray Area Opens New Gallery with Inaugural Exhibition
Gardens of FELT Zine Delights | August 25 – September 13, 2022

Gray Area

2022/08/09

Gray Area announces new late-night event series “Nightfall on Nocturne X”, kicking off with exhibition grand opening on October 29

Gray Area

2021/10/07

Gray Area partners with Human Rights Foundation to announce new Art in Protest Residency Program

2021/06/30

Gray Area’s New Virtual Platform for Performances, Talks and Learning

KQED

2020/04/03

12 artists collaborate at Gray Area to immerse you in the environment

Mission Local

2020/02/12

San Francisco Citizens Counter Climate Change By Seceding From Ecologically-Periolous U.S. Time Standard

Gray Area

2020/02/03

Gray Area Announces The End Of You: An Immersive Art Experience

Gray Area

2019/12/19

This San Francisco arts organization is not afraid to challenge its tech-world neighbors

Fast Company

2019/10/19

The Future of Conceptual, Immersive Art Hasn’t Quite Arrived

Hyperallergic

2019/08/02

Gray Area Festival’s inferno of hybrid arts creativity

48 Hills

2019/07/31

Gray Area’s ISM Hexadome: Immersive world?

San Francisco Chronicle

2019/07/26

Photos: Gray Area Showcase 2019.1

Gray Area Photos

2019/06/19

Photos: ‘discrete figures’ Artist Talk

Gray Area Photos

2019/05/16

Photos: ‘discrete figures 2019’

Gray Area Photos

2019/05/20

On The Road: The Algorithmic Art Assembly

Cycling '74

2019/04/03

DJs of the Future Don’t Spin Records—They Write Code

Wired

2019/03/26

Noise Pop Festival 2019: Tourist, Qrion, and Gilligan Moss

Gray Area Photos

2019/03/01

LIVE REPORT: Recombinant Festival

The Quietus

2019/02/01

Knight Foundation partnership with Gray Area

Knight Foundation

2018/11/15

Photos: Gray Area Festival 2018

Gray Area Photos

2018/08/04

Photos: Gray Area Showcase 2018.1

Gray Area Photos

2018/06/28

Gray Area Festival 2018 Lineup Released

Gray Area Press Release

2018/06/26

BBC Arts Hour On Tour At Gray Area

BBC World Service

2018/03/15

Team Human Episode 78 Live at Gray Area: ERIK DAVIS AND JOSETTE MELCHOR

Team Human

2018/02/17

Team Human Episode 76: Live at Gray Area: HOWARD RHEINGOLD

Team Human

2018/02/16

Machine-made art does not mean the end of human creativity

Venture Beat

2018/01/26

RA Review: Transformations (AKA DeepChord & Fluxion) in San Francisco

Resident Advisor

2017/12/13

Photos: Incubator Open Studio

Gray Area Photos

2017/07/06

Photos: 2017 Spring Creative Code Immersive Showcase

Gray Area Photos

2017/06/28

Photos: Noise Pop and Dj Dials Present: Slow Magic

Gray Area Photos

2017/06/03

Gray Area’s 100 Day No Ban Dance Party: Celebration of Diversity & Creative Resistance

SF Station

2017/04/27

Photos: Gray Area Festival 2017

Gray Area Photos

2017/05/07

What Protest Art Means in the Age of Trump

Fusion

2017/04/28

Through Blips and Beeps, Visionary Synth Engineer Don Buchla Lives On

KQED

2017/04/19

Synthesizing a legacy

48 Hills

2017/04/17

Seaquence lets you make music as animated ocean creatures

Create Digital Media

2017/03/14

Creative Coding in the San Francisco Bay Area: In Search of the Bay Area’s Digital Underground

Forward Slash

2017/02/10

Gray Area Foundation for the Arts’ Oakland Fire Relief, Recovery, and Resiliency Fund Announces First Phase of Allocations and Criteria For Donations Gathered in the Wake of Ghostship Tragedy

Gray Area Press Release

2017/01/25

Daphni, Pantha Du Prince and more appear on Oakland benefit album

FACT Magazine

2017/01/09

Spaceship Rides and Water-Based Instruments Invade San Francisco

The Creators Project

2016/11/03

2016 Creative Code Apprenticeship for Girls with Dolby Laboratories

Gray Area Photos

2016/10/17

DeepDream Art and Machine Learning Symposium 2016 recap

Artists with Machine Intelligence

2016/05/31

Virtual Reality Prepares for Its Close-Up

Fortune

2016/05/04

Art after Silicon Valley – A conversation with the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts team

Creative Applications Network

2016/04/13

Inside Gray Area & Google’s First DeepDream Art Show

Fast Company

2016/03/03

Google’s Computers Paint Like Van Gogh, and the Art Sells for Thousands

The Wall Street Journal

2016/02/29

Photos: Dolby + Gray Area ‘Scrolling Landscapes’

Gray Area Photos

2016/01/13

Fugue machine is how Bach would have made a sequencer

Create Digital Music

2015/10/09

Compose Like Bach (with Help from This App)

The Creators Project

2015/10/08

Photos: UPLOAD.gif: An Urban Outdoor Exhibition + Party

Gray Area Photos

2013/10/11

Virtual Reality Painting Exhibition – June 13, 2015

Gray Area Photos

2015/06/13

Gray Area Festival Delivers Its Message with Shigeto and Teebs

SF Weekly

2015/05/26

Photos: Summer Creative Code Fellowship – 2015

Gray Area Photos

2015/05/20

The Guerrilla Movement To Deploy Sensors All Over Your City

Gizmodo

2015/04/01

Creative Code Meetup IX w/ Kyle McDonald, Lauren McCarthy, & Steve Mason @ Obscura Digital

Gray Area Photos

2014/01/09

This Is What An Outdoor GIF Festival Looks Like

The Creators Project

2013/10/15

How Data Visualizations Are Making Public Transportation Beautiful

Vice

2013/08/17

A New Way To Explore Some of San Francisco’s Hidden Public Spaces

Fast Company

2013/05/02

Photos: Discover SF: Tourism Hackathon

Gray Area Photos

2013/04/19

Photos: Art Hack Day Lethal Software

Gray Area Photos

2012/12/16

Hacking the Streetscape at the Urban Prototyping Festival

Wired

2012/10/24

“Urban Prototyping” Festival to Transform Public Space Through Citizen Experiments

Press Release

2012/10/11

10 Urban Projects That Could Change City Landscapes For The Better

Fast Company

2012/08/28

Creative Currency Project Tackles Urban Problems With Technology

Forbes

2012/08/17

Twitter Blog: Our New Nest

Twitter

2012/06/11

Art Hack Weekend: San Francisco 2012 — The Debut Of Partyline

The Creators Project

2012/05/11

The Street Hacker, Officially Embraced

Atlantic Cities

2012/05/07

San Francisco’s Tech, Entrepreneur, Design Talent and Tenderloin Community Come Together to Improve Lives of Residents During Collaboration Weekend

Press Release

2012/04/27

San Francisco Puts Brakes on an App for Transit

The New York Times

2012/04/21

Hacking for Good: Coders and Community Workers Unite in San Francisco

GOOD

2012/04/10

Art Hack: Crowdsourcing Digital Art From The City

Fast Company

2012/03/15

Burning Man Project, Black Rock Arts Foundation, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts & SF Mayor’s Office named as ArtPlace finalists

Press Release

2012/01/24

Mid Market, at Last, May Be on the Cusp of Revival

The New York Times

2011/10/07

SMART Muni app designed over a weekend

San Francisco Chronicle

2011/10/05

Man uses fish poo, sensors to grow garden

Smart Planet

2011/09/25

Photos: Summer of Smart 2011: Community Development + Public Art: Keynotes | Hack | Mixer

Gray Area Photos

2011/07/22

Summer of Smart Launches to Harness Creative Technology and Urbanism communities to Make Lasting Transformation on Bay Area Politics and Civic Life

Press Release

2011/06/09

Transmutations Opening | 03.26.2011

Gray Area Photos

2011/03/26

Big names eye real estate in blighted SF downtown

Associated Press

2011/02/19

Gray Area Launches Unique ‘Social Artwork’ Experiment To Support Digital Arts Community

Press Release

2011/01/27

Photos: The Great Urban Hack Showcase and Lights on Market Launch

Gray Area Photos

2010/12/09

Photos: Mikael Stavöstrand, Dave Aju, Jason Short + CSTNG -SHDWS: Milieux Sonores Closing Performances

Gray Area Photos

2010/11/30

Photos: The Great Urban Hack

Gray Area Photos

2010/11/01

Photos: Creative Commons Salon: Participatory Culture Offline

Gray Area Photos

2010/09/20

Programming for Poets and more at GAFFTA

KQED

2010/08/17

Review: SENSEable Cities: Exploring Urban Futures

Art Practical

2010/07/28

Photos: SENSEable Cities: Exploring Urban Futures

Gray Area Photos

2010/07/13

Photos: Derp Single Initiative City Centered

Gray Area Photos

2010/06/11

Yahoo News Bytes: Grace Kim’s Soft-Circuit Class

Yahoo

2010/05/14

The Art of Data Visualization: Stamen Design Event Wrapup

Hacks/Hackers

2010/04/09

Gray Area blends tech, artistic creativity

San Francisco Chronicle

2010/03/09

NYE Membership Drive Celebration: Powers of 10

Gray Area Photos

2010/01/01

Reid Hoffman, Thomas Goetz, Peter Hirshberg, Josette Melchor, and 11 Other Social Innovators to Speak at Sold-Out TEDxSilicon Valley

TEDx Silicon Valley

2009/12/12

Photos: TRANSPOSE: The Work of Aaron Koblin and Robert Hodgin

Gray Area Photos

2009/11/04

Photos: Inaugural Exhibition: OPEN

Gray Area Photos

2009/10/01

In Conversation with Josette Melchor

Women 2.0

2009/06/21

Arts groups create new music opportunities in the Tenderloin

SF Weekly

2009/03/16

Arts district to transform lower Taylor Street

San Francisco Chronicle

2009/02/21

Art with Flight Patterns

CNET

2008/06/11

Gray Area Gallery 2.0

SF Bay Guardian

2008/04/21