This Friday: Visible Cloaks @visiblecloaks return to Gray Area: grayarea.org/event/visible-c… “A hazy, metallic dreamlike edge” — @thewiremagazine Experience "Paradessence", the duo’s first album since 2017’s "Reassemblage". Blurring the boundaries between acoustic and synthetic sound, the record unfolds through shimmering digital environments. Opening the evening is Bay Area composer and performer Madalyn Merkey. 📅 Friday, June 12 🕢 7:30 PM 📍 Gray Area / Grand Theater Video: Thinking (ft. Félicia Atkinson, Yoshio Ojima & Satsuki Shibano) / Shapes (ft. Yoshio Ojima & Satsuki Shibano) Directed by Spencer Doran

𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐓𝐚𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐢 @tchoi8 Workshop Instructor: Lecture Performance on the Web Taeyoon Choi is an artist, educator, curator, and activist whose work explores poetry, technology, society, and human relationships. Taeyoon also co-founded the School for Poetic Computation @sfpc , where he taught between 2013 and 2020. His is work has been shown everywhere from grassroots spaces to institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, LACMA, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, and MASS MoCA. In this video, Taeyoon introduces lecture performance as a form where the artist performs pedagogy, with roots in avant garde and Fluxus inspired experiments. In this two-part workshop, you’ll get a short set of micro lectures on the form, then develop and deliver your own lecture performance designed for the World Wide Web as a site specific venue. 𝐋𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐛 🗓️ Sundays, June 7 June 14, 2026 🕛 12 – 1:30 PM PT 💻 Online 🔗 Enroll: grayarea.org/course/lecture-…

📣 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. 🔗 Survey link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…

THIS COMING MONDAY: 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐲: 𝐄𝐱𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐅𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞 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, you’ll leave with a working Fuser workflow and a pile of beautifully wrong bodies. No prior coding experience required. 📅 Monday, June 1 🕕 6 – 9 PM PT 💻 Online 🎟️ $40 Limited capacity. Enroll today: grayarea.org/course/strange-…

A few moments from opening night of the Gray Area Creative Code Showcase. Thank you to everyone who came out! The showcase continues tonight from 5 – 9 PM at the Grand Theater. 📷 "hidden units" by SiQi He "Under the Mango Tree" by Sarah Alli "Quadrant Ensemble" by Jeanette Andrews "Awe Engine" by Faraday Gray Area 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞 📍 Gray Area / Grand Theater 🎟️ Learn more: luma.com/vc7s3dp0

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 you’d like to see it or find more about it, my DMs are open. This piece is also available for sale.

A first sneak peek at the 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐲 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐚 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞! 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 “Blood, Snow and Ebony.” Lizzie Suh invites participants to reflect on identity, memory, grief, and transformation while still in the process of becoming in their piece “In Present Memoriam.” Through a series of questions, the work generates symbolic portraits using an AI model trained on the artist’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 “Daytrip to Colma.” 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 “Procrastination.” 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! 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐲 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐚 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞 📍 Gray Area / Grand Theater 📅 May 20 – 21, 2026 May 20 🥂 Member Preview Happy Hour: 6 – 7 PM 🥂 Public Hours: 7 – 10 PM May 21 Showcase Open Hours: 5 – 9 PM 🎟️ RSVP: grayarea.org/event/gray-area…

showing a lil piece i made called "Playcard" at @GrayAreaorg this Wednesday Thursday evening, come thru grayarea.org/event/gray-area… it turns any space in which it's installed into "art" by describing it in "the labels voice" -- kinda like this description of this post:

Last week at Gray Area (@GrayAreaorg), five artists shared their own AI models for the first time. Dream Models brought together Arvida Byström (@arvidabystrom), Huntrezz Janos (@hauntrezz), Lou Fauroux, Sharon Zheng, and Yvonne Fang (@fang_yvonne) to present custom models trained on their own visual worlds — each one distinct, strange, personal, and impossible to separate from the artist behind it. Thank you to everyone who came out, experimented with the models, and stayed late talking with us. And thank you to Gray Area and curator Alice Scope (@alicescope_) for helping make space for this kind of work to exist publicly. This is the future we want for creating with AI: not anonymous systems flattening culture, but tools shaped by real artistic perspectives and built to keep artists connected to the value their work creates.

Excited to teach a @fuserstudio workshop June 1 with @GrayAreaorg - sign up and let's make some 'Strange Anatomy' together!

𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐈𝐬 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞 ☀️ Design poetic mini-games, build virtual worlds in Blender, create live audiovisual systems with code, experiment with AI collage, or perform a lecture on the web. This summer’s workshops and intensive courses are led by artists and practitioners working across game design, experimental media, music, creative coding, and networked performance. 𝓘𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓷𝓼𝓲𝓿𝓮 𝓒𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓼𝓮𝓼 ✶ Expressive Systems: Making Poetic Mini-Games in PICO-8 with Tonz Beglari ✶ Hybrid Live Coding: Designing Systems for Audiovisual Performance with Roxanne Harris ✶ Personal Worldbuilding with 3D Modeling in Blender with Claudia Miranda 𝓦𝓸𝓻𝓴𝓼𝓱𝓸𝓹𝓼 ✶ Strange Anatomy: Exquisite Corpses with Fuser Compositor and Creative Code with Laure Michelon ✶ Lecture Performance on the Web with Taeyoon Choi ✶ Techno Improvisation with Beat DJ with Nes Croft ~ Become a Gray Area Member: Education perks start at the Co-Creator level, including 20% off workshops, discounts on intensive courses, early access to registration, and free entry to events for you guest. Learn more: grayarea.org/learn/

Media arts educators, we want to hear from you! If you teach art, creative technology, media arts, writing, design, architecture, games, sound, curation/research, or related fields, we’d love your perspective on how AI tools are changing the classroom and studio. Gray Area is partnering with researchers to document how artist-educators are adapting in real time. The survey takes less than 5 minutes. (And as a thank you, pick up a free Moleskine journal next time you’re at Gray Area) Share your perspective → docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…

NEXT WEEK! 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 Experience immersive installations, interactive poetry, artistic games, and experimental digital environments created by artists, designers, and technologists from Gray Area’s flagship Creative Code Intensive. This year’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. 📍 Gray Area / Grand Theater 📅 May 20 – 21, 2026 Opening Night May 20 🥂 Member Preview Happy Hour: 6 – 7 PM 🥂 Public Hours: 7 – 10 PM Showcase Open Hours May 21 5 – 9 PM All ages Sliding scale admission: $0–30 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-area…

On 13 May, 邊界 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, “Singulars”: 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!

We partnered with Gray Area to commission five artists to train custom AI models on their own work. Join us May 9th as @arvidabystrom, @hauntrezz, Lou Fauroux, @fang_yvonne, and Sharon Zheng discuss the concepts behind their models and what AI means for their practice.