โ—ข๐Ÿ‘๏ธโ—ฃ Executive & Artistic Director @grayareaorg.

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San Francisco once viewed technology as a civic and consciousness building medium โ€” something that could enable collective cultural expression. In @palladiummag, @notscottmoore and I trace how that spirit atrophied โ€” and how artists might help renew it.
Once a sanctuary for art and invention, Silicon Valley has become co-opted by bureaucracy and disbelief. Its renewal depends on restoring faith in creation itself. Read the new article by Barry Threw and @notscottmoore (link below):
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A rat done bit my sister Nell
this is so fucking stupid
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Art Basel, PACE, and Venice Biennale will no longer be so damn relevant
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Happy Birthday Pauline Oliveros
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๐Ÿ“ฃ Calling all media arts teachers and artist-educators! Gray Area is partnering with academic researchers to better understand how generative AI is reshaping media arts education, teaching practices, and creative learning environments. We invite media arts educators and professionals to participate in a short survey exploring how AI tools are impacting learning, instructional methods, and the future of education. Conducted by Alm Chung in collaboration with Gray Area, this research will inform an upcoming web report on the evolving relationship between generative AI and media arts education. Whether your experience with AI has been positive, negative, or mixed, we want to hear from you. Your perspective will help shape ongoing research into how educators are adapting to the era of GenAI. This project is supported by an NEA Research Grants in the Arts award. ๐Ÿ”— Survey link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1Fโ€ฆ
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This is gonna be so fun
THIS COMING MONDAY: ๐’๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž ๐€๐ง๐š๐ญ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฒ: ๐„๐ฑ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ž ๐‚๐จ๐ซ๐ฉ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐…๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐จ๐ซ ๐‚๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐‚๐จ๐๐ž Part collage, part code, part chaos: In this online workshop, artist and creative technologist @Laure_Michelon explores the surrealist logic of the exquisite corpse through @fuserstudio's node-based AI workflows, image generation, and Creative Code tools. Generate fragmented figures, build chance-based compositions, and create strange new anatomies through AI-assisted collage and code. By the end of the session, youโ€™ll leave with a working Fuser workflow and a pile of beautifully wrong bodies. No prior coding experience required. ๐Ÿ“… Monday, June 1 ๐Ÿ•• 6 โ€“ 9 PM PT ๐Ÿ’ป Online ๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ $40 Limited capacity. Enroll today: grayarea.org/course/strange-โ€ฆ
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Never forget that YOU are a data center. Drink some water!!
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Latte art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable
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HBD! Bassel Khartabil would be 45 today. Openโ€‘hardware pioneer, Wikimedia contributor, and coโ€‘founder of New Palmyra โ€” with unreleased letters, drives and notes that could still reshape heritage preservation and open tech. Honor him: edit, share, build. basselkhartabil.org/2026/05/โ€ฆ
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hop on hop off sales spike to historical levels with ex meta employees seeing the city for the first time since moving here
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May 19
INDEX is a project I have been developing over the last few months; it was installed in NYC at our event in collaboration with @GrayAreaorg and @FWBtweets, and was also shown as a live visual performance variation at Rockefeller Centre last week for the closing of @rhizome 7x7. The project critically examines the relationship between technology and economy through the lens of digital frameworks and language. It is a project about the dynamics of metadata containment and the production of information as a dynamic movement. INDEX is a piece that forms part of a much larger project, and is the result of years of research and production. It has a strong philosophical grounding. If youโ€™d like to see it or find more about it, my DMs are open. This piece is also available for sale.
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Still frames from my last project
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A first sneak peek at the ๐†๐ซ๐š๐ฒ ๐€๐ซ๐ž๐š ๐‚๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐‚๐จ๐๐ž ๐’๐ก๐จ๐ฐ๐œ๐š๐ฌ๐ž! Four artists made works concerning emotional inheritance, personal mythology, mourning, transformation, and the construction of selfhood through symbolic or ritualized experiences. Wolf Boxuan Chen uses a fairy-tale dance game to interrogate purity, violence, symbolic roles, and suffering beneath idealized narratives in their project โ€œBlood, Snow and Ebony.โ€ Lizzie Suh invites participants to reflect on identity, memory, grief, and transformation while still in the process of becoming in their piece โ€œIn Present Memoriam.โ€ Through a series of questions, the work generates symbolic portraits using an AI model trained on the artistโ€™s own paintings, blending machine generation with a distinctly human artistic voice. Connie Liu examines local Chinese burial traditions in Bay Area cemeteries in their installation โ€œDaytrip to Colma.โ€ Sifting through genealogy records originally assembled by the U.S. government to investigate immigration fraud from Hoisan, the project reflects on the contemporary practice of descendants seeking traces of their ancestral origins through gravestones amid generations of separation, anti-immigration, language loss, and diminished Chinese literacy. Tracy Jones reframes procrastination as a reflection of grief, overwhelm, and productivity culture in their piece โ€œProcrastination.โ€ Visitors contribute their own procrastinations to a living system that transforms them into immersive visuals and sound. See all their projects and more at the Creative Code Showcase! ๐†๐ซ๐š๐ฒ ๐€๐ซ๐ž๐š ๐‚๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐‚๐จ๐๐ž ๐’๐ก๐จ๐ฐ๐œ๐š๐ฌ๐ž ๐Ÿ“ Gray Area / Grand Theater ๐Ÿ“… May 20 โ€“ 21, 2026 May 20 ๐Ÿฅ‚ Member Preview Happy Hour: 6 โ€“ 7 PM ๐Ÿฅ‚ Public Hours: 7 โ€“ 10 PM May 21 Showcase Open Hours: 5 โ€“ 9 PM ๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ RSVP: grayarea.org/event/gray-areaโ€ฆ
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Weโ€™re proud to sponsor this yearโ€™s rhizome 7x7, @rhizome legendary gathering pairing 7 artists and 7 technologists to "make something new" together. 7x7 has long been a point of connection between internet art, experimental technology, and the people shaping culture around them. We're excited to support this yearโ€™s edition and the ongoing exchange between East Coast and West Coast creative communities. Curated by Rhizome, Neema Githere, and ้‚Š็•Œ (Ian Margo & Alexandre Montserrat | ไธ–็„ถ), this yearโ€™s edition draws from Zoรซ Sofiaโ€™s writing to explore containment through themes of interdependence, care, and connection. 7x7 takes place at the @newmuseum in NYC tomorrow, May 16, 2026. Learn more: rhizome.org/editorial/7x7-20โ€ฆ
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NEXT WEEK! ๐‚๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐‚๐จ๐๐ž ๐’๐ก๐จ๐ฐ๐œ๐š๐ฌ๐ž ๐’๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ” Experience immersive installations, interactive poetry, artistic games, and experimental digital environments created by artists, designers, and technologists from Gray Areaโ€™s flagship Creative Code Intensive. This yearโ€™s showcase features work by 13 participants exploring themes of connection, memory, surveillance, and cultural identity in a moment where AI increasingly shapes social interaction and the ways we relate to technology. Over two days, experience the work, meet the creators, and get inspired by emerging voices working across art and technology. ๐Ÿ“ Gray Area / Grand Theater ๐Ÿ“… May 20 โ€“ 21, 2026 Opening Night May 20 ๐Ÿฅ‚ Member Preview Happy Hour: 6 โ€“ 7 PM ๐Ÿฅ‚ Public Hours: 7 โ€“ 10 PM Showcase Open Hours May 21 5 โ€“ 9 PM All ages Sliding scale admission: $0โ€“30 Free for members Featuring work by: charles_irl Chih Yu Chen Connie Liu Dylan Peet Fabian Fabro Faraday Jeanette Andrews Lizzie Suh Sarah Alli SiQi He Theo Popov Tracy Jones Wolf Boxuan Chen Learn more and RSVP: grayarea.org/event/gray-areaโ€ฆ
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Killer investment opportunity for a16z: finding a more sustainable means of capitalizing technology innovation that allows space for leisure without requiring a global crisis killing a bunch of vulnerable people / public bailout to keep it in check
honestly i say bring it on to hantavirusโ€ฆculturally i dont mind a global pandemic every 5-6 years, gives us all time to get some new hobbies and for the new technological s-curves to reach an apotheosis. this time around, im gonna get invisalign, read a lot of ian banks, maybe learn how to dj.
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On 13 May, ้‚Š็•Œ will be hosting an evening gathering at @index_space_org Greenpoint, NYC, bringing together a cross-coastal group of artists, researchers, technologists and cultural intermediaries from New York and San Francisco. The event is designed to foster meaningful dialogue around the role of artistic practice in shaping how technical institutions, research communities, and public imaginaries intersect. With the support of @GrayAreaorg and @FWBtweets. We will be presenting @yalla_halim work, โ€œSingularsโ€: a series of live poetry duels between a human poet and a machine. The audience votes to decide the winner, and their votes train the machine for future performances, helping poetry and machine reach, possibly, a new singularity. DM for more information!
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vibe just shifted
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San Francisco's knee-jerk aversion to any level of critique is the biggest threat to its ever finding cultural maturity
just going hater mode today. 99% of people have never gotten real critique in their lives. have you ever had someone tear apart an essay you wrote? or a piece of art you lost sleep over for a month? too many soft creatives. you grow when your work gets a close reading. you do not get that from twitter demo hype.
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we must end the quirk chungus terrible creative technology project industrial complex (iโ€™m in the @clereviewbooks today about the arts collaborations at Bell Labs and RAND in the 70s!)
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Milady pfps are LinkedIn coded in 2026. They're all 26 years old and want to talk to you about digital strategy
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