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Gray Area @grayarea.org · Jun 23
ᴇᴀʀʟʏ ʙɪʀᴅ ᴛɪᴄᴋᴇᴛs ᴀʀᴇ ɴᴏᴡ ᴏɴ sᴀʟᴇ!
Join us from September 11–14 for the 11th edition of 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐲 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐚 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥: 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐗𝐗! 🦠

Get your Early Bird Pass today and save $50

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Gray Area Festival 2025
September 11–14
Gray Area / Grand Theater
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Gray Area @grayarea.org · 8d
Back by popular demand this Fall: 𝘽𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙗𝙤𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙈𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙧 𝙎𝙮𝙣𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙧𝙨 workshop!

No previous experience is necessary, and all materials are provided for you!

📆 October 11 – 12
🕘 1:00 – 4:00PM
https://grayarea.org/course/breadboarding-modular-synthesizers-workshop/
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Gray Area @grayarea.org · 10d
It's our final day of 𝙅𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙖𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙤𝙣: 𝘾𝙊𝙎𝙈𝙊𝙂𝙀𝙉𝙀𝙎𝙄𝙎! Learn what's in store for this final day of this three-day symposium:

https://grayarea.org/event/jordan-belson-cosmogenesis/

🎥 Allures - 1961, 9 min, 16mm, Color, Sound
Video courtesy of the Jordan Belson Estate.
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Gray Area @grayarea.org · 11d
Day 2 of 𝙅𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙖𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙤𝙣: 𝘾𝙊𝙎𝙈𝙊𝙂𝙀𝙉𝙀𝙎𝙄𝙎 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/

🎥 Raga - 1959
Video courtesy of the Jordan Belson Estate
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Gray Area @grayarea.org · 12d
𝙅𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙖𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙤𝙣: 𝘾𝙊𝙎𝙈𝙊𝙂𝙀𝙉𝙀𝙎𝙄𝙎, 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/

🎥 Momentum - 1968
Video courtesy of the Jordan Belson Estate.
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Gray Area @grayarea.org · 15d
This Weekend: 𝙅𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙖𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙤𝙣: 𝘾𝙊𝙎𝙈𝙊𝙂𝙀𝙉𝙀𝙎𝙄𝙎, our three-day symposium opening this weekend, presented in partnership with SF Cinematheque and @bampfa.bsky.social

https://grayarea.org/event/jordan-belson-cosmogenesis/

🎥 Meditation - 1971
Courtesy of the Jordan Belson Estate
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Gray Area @grayarea.org · 16d
THIS THURSDAY! Composer and producer Kelly Moran presents a dynamic set featuring brand-new material alongside selections from previous work.

With Shipwreck Detective

📅 Thursday, September 25 | 8 PM
🎟 Tickets: https://grayarea.org/event/kelly-moran-live-av/
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Gray Area @grayarea.org · 21d
𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞
10/11 – 12/6, 2025 • Online

Our popular course with award-winning critical designer, researcher, and artist Caroline Sinders returns!

Apply by October 1
➡️grayarea.org/course/responsible-technology-design-intensive-2025
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Gray Area @grayarea.org · 25d
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Kevin Peter He + FITNESSS, Debit, and Authentically Plastic Gray Area Festival 2025 Performances
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Gray Area @grayarea.org · 25d
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!
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Gray Area @grayarea.org · 25d
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
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Gray Area @grayarea.org · 25d
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
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Gray Area @grayarea.org · 25d
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
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Gray Area @grayarea.org · 25d
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
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Gray Area @grayarea.org · 25d
Next up is micha cárdenas, 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
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Gray Area @grayarea.org · 25d
Scholar, author, and professor Shane Denson @shanedenson.bsky.social, is up now discussing the tension between technology’s 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
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Gray Area @grayarea.org · 25d
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
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Gray Area @grayarea.org · 25d
Day 3 of 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐲 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐚 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓: 𝙏𝙊 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙈𝘼𝙓𝙓 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
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Gray Area @grayarea.org · 26d
Thank you to everyone that came to today's conference! Now on to tonight’s performances featuring Onyx Ashanti, Ash Fure, Briana Marela Lizárraga starting at 9PM.

Free for Pass holders/Individual Tickets still available

See you there!
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🎥Onyx Ashanti
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Gray Area @grayarea.org · 26d
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.
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Gray Area @grayarea.org · 26d
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 Valley’s visions of the future.

Join us virtually with a virtual pass: https://grayareafestival.io
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Gray Area @grayarea.org · 26d
Going on a short break! See you in a few minutes for Zach Blas
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Gray Area @grayarea.org · 26d
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
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Gray Area @grayarea.org · 26d
Multidisciplinary artist and engineer Xin Liu is live now, with a talk focusing on Cosmic Metabolism and how technological change reshapes both Earth’s systems and our own processes of growth and transformation

Join us virtually with a virtual pass: https://grayareafestival.io
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Gray Area @grayarea.org · 26d
Up now is Onyx Ashanti, an artist and designer investigating the blurred line between invention and improvisation, exploring sonocybernetics, cyborgian philosophy, and what performance means when human thought and machine merge
Join us with a virtual pass https://grayareafestival.io
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Gray Area @grayarea.org · 26d
Our first group of speakers ends with a talk by choreographer Sydney Skybetter @sydneyskybetter discussing his research on choreorobotic and microgravity performance!

Can't make it in person? Join us virtually with a virtual pass: https://grayareafestival.io
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