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Gray Area’s 2026 Education Program offers workshops and intensive courses focused on creative agency through technology.

FALL 2026 CLASSES

This season, build the future of the web, compose electronic music, design installations with projection mapping, and expand your hardware skills with a new modular synthesizer workshop.

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11/02/26
Vibecheck: Building 3D Generative and Interactive Art with AI
Designed for beginner programmers, this workshop blends technical concepts with creative practice in generative and... ENROLL TODAY
10/08/26
Beyond Big Tech: Building Alternative Futures for Personal Data and Infrastructure
This new online course empowers artists, archivists, gallerists, activists, and others with the tools for... ENROLL TODAY
10/05/26
Breadboarding Modular Synthesizers
In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to design basic electronic oscillators with integrated... ENROLL TODAY
9/30/26
MadMapper 101: Projection Mapping for Immersive Environments
Learn projection mapping from the ground up and transform walls, objects, fabric, and architecture into... ENROLL TODAY
9/15/26
Machines & Ideas: Creative Electronic Music Production in Ableton Live 12
Learn the tools of electronic music in Ableton Live 12, then learn to break them.... ENROLL TODAY

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Get online audit access to recordings of courses so you can view and listen from home on your own schedule.

Course Category: Ongoing

7/11/26
Personal Worldbuilding with 3D Modeling in Blender
Learn 3D modeling in Blender while building a personal cosmogram, an interactive 3D world shaped...
7/08/26
Hybrid Live Coding: Designing Systems for Audiovisual Performance
Use live coding to create hybrid audiovisual performance systems combining sound, visuals, and interactive media. ...
4/07/26
Event Synthesis: Algorithmic Music Composition
This workshop introduces musicians, programmers, and mathematically inclined artists to playful, math-driven approaches to composition,...
1/25/25
TouchDesigner 101 Intensive:
Creating Interactive Installations and Generative Art
An introductory class on TouchDesigner centered around building an interactive art installation and methods for...

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Program Highlights

Creative Code Intensive

Our Creative Code Intensive is a newly redesigned 12-week in-person course in creative technology, offering a comprehensive introduction to foundational and advanced tools for programming digital media. In an interdisciplinary environment of artists, designers, engineers, and other creative professionals, participants will create studio projects and discuss work in group critiques, culminating in an exhibition of work in a public showcase.

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Beyond Big Tech: Building Alternative Futures for Personal Data and Infrastructure

A six-week online course exploring how artists, organizers, archivists, designers, and cultural practitioners can build alternatives to centralized tech infrastructure. Evolved from Gray Area’s earlier DWeb for Creators curriculum, the course combines critical discussions of data sovereignty, decentralized governance, and community infrastructure with hands-on introductions to tools for self-hosting, archiving, running web services, and building independent networks. Beginners are welcome, with technical demos balanced by questions of power, stewardship, and what it means for communities to control their own data and digital spaces.

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Handmade Datasets: Strategies for working creatively with small data and Artificial Intelligence

This beginner-friendly intensive explored how small, handmade datasets can be used to train custom image, text, and audio models. Taught by artist, educator, designer, and coder Aarati Akkapeddi, the course introduced techniques including LoRA fine-tuning, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and RAVE while examining how training data is assembled and how those choices shape model outputs. Participants experimented across visual, text, and audio approaches, ultimately creating their own dataset and custom model while developing a more critical, hands-on understanding of machine learning.

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OUR COMMUNITY IMPACT

For the 12 weeks, I could learn a lot of skills of making immersive art. I’ve took some classes about coding ever in college, yet immersive is my first class that I really excited! Its kinda bootcamp for creative coding so sometimes it was not easy for me but it was really stimulus. Also, the instructor and classmate are very friendly and talented! Hope we can keep in touch and collaborate in future.

Nao Kondo

This immersive perfectly combined art and engineering and was easily one of the best learning experiences I’ve ever had. The teachers were patient and great at explaining concepts, technologies, and creative strategies – better than some of the professors I’ve had in undergrad. The critique and feedback I received in class helped push my work to another level. Take this course. It will only help you grow as an artist and as an engineer!

Ella Ordona

I’m a former creative code immersive scholarship recipient. The skills I’ve developed through Gray Area have helped me grow as an artist and make a living as a creative technologist. Thanks for the important work you do.

Peter Rigano

I am amazed by the work going on at Gray Area, and am glad I found it in the online COVID-19 world. There is nothing like it near me that I am aware of. I also enjoyed the book club event with Youngblood.

Meredith Sward

Gray Area is an essential cultural organization, consciously evolving both the arts and the world we find ourselves in.

Angela Melkisethian

Galvanize was amazing and my first time at Gray Area. I can’t wait to check out your other events.

Merrill Garbus

Community. Culture. Advocacy. Gratitude.

Marissa Underwood

Seeing the program outline of the Immersive was like seeing a wish list of things I hoped to learn, so when the opportunity presented itself to apply and enroll, I took it.

Kaii Tu