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Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate Scaling Intelligence with us last night! 💚
We drew in sand and watched our marks become new glyphs inspired by Maya writing, listened to a living yeast colony whose metabolic activity was translated into choral music, released digital creatures into an evolving ecosystem, and watched autonomous AI agents negotiate over pixels. We followed a satellite on an endless search for an island that never existed. We watched smartphones navigate our digital lives without anyone holding them.
The exhibition is open today from 2 – 6 PM, followed by Inference as Instrument at 7 PM, a conversation exploring AI as a creative instrument. (Panel is sold out, waitlist open!)
Missed opening night? There’s still time to explore!
Gallery Hours
Thu: 2 – 6 PM
Fri: 2 – 8 PM
Sat & Sun: 1 – 8 PM
Free admission! On view through November 1.
📍Gray Area, 2665 Mission St, San Francisco
Featuring
@cezarmocan
@colin_odonnell + @subfeels + Will Gardiner
@prismspecs
@ikovrigina
@greenberg.ira
@tinapulejkova
@xmiguelnovelo
@pkmital
@rashedhaq
@dirty.stray.dog
@spence.r.chang
Presented in partnership with modal.
Photos © Barak Shrama @barakshramaphotography <3
29 Oct 2026
More ways to learn at Gray Area this fall 🍂
Registration is now open for our Fall 2026 workshops and intensive courses, with classes spanning electronic music, projection mapping, decentralized technology, creative coding, hardware, and more.
Here’s a closer look at some of what’s coming up:
🎛️ Machines & Ideas: Creative Electronic Music Production in Ableton Live 12
with Ryan Smith (@taravalmusic)
→ Learn the tools of electronic music in Ableton Live 12, then learn to break them, developing your own approaches to composition, production, and performance.
[Tuesdays, 6 – 9 PM | Sept 15 – Oct 6]
🌀 MadMapper 101: Projection Mapping for Immersive Environments
with Sieanele Ponce (@ecdysis.exp)
→ Learn the fundamentals of MadMapper and build projection-mapped environments that transform architecture, objects, and unconventional surfaces through image and light.
[Wednesdays, 6 – 9 PM | Sept 30 – Oct 21]
🌐 Beyond Big Tech
with Ayana Zaire Cotton (@ayzaco), mai ishikawa sutton, Sarah Friend (@isthisanart), Sarah Grant, and Nasir Anthony Montalvo (@1800nasi)
→ Explore data sovereignty, self-hosting, and the decentralized web while gaining hands-on experience building networked resources outside centralized tech infrastructure.
[Oct 5 – Nov 12]
🌀 Vibecheck: Building 3D Generative and Interactive Art with AI
with Kate Hollenbach
→ Build interactive 3D artwork for the web using three.js, combining vibecoding with direct authorship of code while developing your JavaScript coding literacy along the way.
[Nov 2 – 23]
🏗️ Breadboarding Modular Synthesizers
with Sean Hallowell
→ Build a playable instrument from the ground up using breadboarded oscillator and sequencing circuits to create synth melodies, rhythmic patterns, and live drum sequences.
[Oct 5 & 7 | 6 – 9 PM]
Featured DWeb projects:
guacamaya net.work by jorge courtade
Right to Belong by Joni Chan
{B/qKC}: a Black queer archive by Nasir Anthony Montalvo, Anevay Martz, & Sunday Adesoye Adegbenro
And there’s more coming soon 👀 Keep your Wednesdays open: we’ll be announcing a new community-driven weekly program for workshops, artist talks, and more.
Register now: Link in bio!
25 Aug 2026
While the Scaling Intelligence exhibition closed on November 1, we’re continuing to share conversations with the artists behind the exhibition’s 11 commissioned works, presented by Gray Area and Modal.
Kristina Pulejkova’s Metabolic Guide is a living yeast colony that ferments nonstop while AI turns its metabolic state into a cat choir. Every shift is matched with satellite images of industrial zones, ice loss, and drought, so a single microbial colony becomes a mirror for an Earth under extractive pressure.
Learn more about Kristina's Metabolic Guide in the link in bio.
07 Nov 2026
@ra_stablished is our first curator and we are honored to have him! He is exactly the type of multifaceted artist we knew would understand the RS vibe.
Ratha Nou is a first gen Cambodian American artist out of San Jose now residing in Oakland.
He’s been keeping the creative flame alive with @stablishedprojects for over 20 years. Working with the likes of Nike and the Golden State Warriors.
Now he’s bringing the heat to Render Settings’ first creative brief! Excited to see where your creative direction leads Ratha!
Less than 1 week until RS_01 at @grayareaorg Nov 11 6-9pm. Registration in Bio
05 Nov 2026
We’re back this November with Part II of Breadboarding Modular Synthesizers!
Breadboarding Modular Synthesizers Part II builds on the techniques from Part I. Over two days, you’ll explore new approaches to sequencing beyond binary counting, use logic gates to generate fresh patterns, and shape your sound with manual and automated filtering.
You’ll leave with new, playable circuits for more complex melodies and rhythms, with the option to integrate them into your Part I synth.
Completion of Part I or equivalent experience is required. No hardware or circuits background needed and all materials are provided.
🏗️ 🎹 Breadboarding Modular Synthesizers Part II Workshop
📆 Monday, November 9 & Wednesday, November 11
🕘 6 – 9 PM
Enroll in the link in bio!
04 Nov 2026
Endzeit, Recombinant and Gray Area present two sonic seminars with @neelrome, Endzeit’s artist-in-residence: evenings to explore the process behind electronic music composition, accessible to everyone.
These are not technical classes. Each session is a lecture on ideas and aesthetic methods, illustrated with material from Neel’s own Ableton sessions, followed by an open Q&A and a live ambient performance. The subject is listening itself: how a producer hears, selects and shapes sound. No prior experience is required.
I. Sound as Origin · Thursday, 12 November
Why are certain sounds interesting, and where do they come from: found sources, reused material, and processing that draws out what a recording already holds. A case for working with as little as possible, and for treating limitation as method rather than constraint. Ambient performance by @nborus
II. Sound as Shape · Tuesday, 17 November
How sound becomes composition. Treatment, mixing and mastering considered as aesthetic decisions rather than procedure: what holds a mix together, what mastering is for, and how the ear is trained. Ambient performance by @rmnalive
7–10pm. Entry: free; suggested donation $0–15. NOTAFLOF.
Neel (Giuseppe Tillieci) is an Italian producer, live performer and mastering engineer whose work spans rhythm and texture, from techno to ambient and synthwork. Few artists have shaped the sound of contemporary electronics so directly: through Enisslab, the mixing and mastering studio he founded, he has mastered more than 400 techno albums (and counting).
With Donato Dozzy he forms Voices From The Lake, one of electronic music’s most influential projects, which last year returned with its long-awaited second album, II. In 2016 the two founded the label Spazio Disponibile. Improvisation sits at the centre of his practice: he has played multi-hour hardware jams with Mike Parker, .VRIL, Kerrie and Sebastian Mullaert, and has spoken on collaboration and improvisation at ADE with Ableton. As Endzeit’s artist-in-residence, he has performed for the collective in San Francisco, New York, Detroit and Rome; his foundational Movimento EP debuted at Endzeit in 2024.
Flyer by @marcomaldarella
04 Nov 2026
See the Emmy-winning live theater performance across two cities SIMULTANEOUSLY in an experiment for @acmsiggraph showcasing @ferrymanvr & @rodemic storytelling technology.
One night only at @grayareaorg and @theclubhouse.la
The evening performance will be roughly an hour live presentation followed by a Q&A with the creative team and performers in both cities.
04 Nov 2026
Introducing the newest members of the Culture Forward family! 🏁🏁
Our 7th round awarded $550K to projects spanning an impressive range of creative practices, from Youth Speaks’ Love Letters to Our City to La Pocha Nostra’s Requiem for the End of an Empire.
The SF Scale Model Project will be reassembled at Pier 29 through CCSF’s internship program, while SFAI Legacy Foundation + Archive teams up with Inventory Press for An Incomplete* Listing of San Francisco Libraries, Reading Rooms, and Archives.
Further will spotlight its downtown SF participants, and SFAW will close out with a night of experimental music by Endzeit. MoAD and YBCA are expanding their programming, while Gray Area, Exploratorium, and Stud Arts bring us new festivals!
Read more about our newest grantees on our website, and stay tuned here for deeper dives into their projects.
🏁Culture Forward runs for 3 more rounds.
💰We review and distribute grants every quarter.
🗓️Next application deadline is December 1.
💌Spread the word.
🪩This is a space for experimentation.
All the links in bio 🧬
03 Nov 2026
THIS WEDNESDAY at Patch Bay: Translating Living Systems into Robotics and Music Workshop.
Join artists Scott Kildall and Kal Spelletich for an ideas-based workshop on bio-art and performance.
Kal builds robotic sound machines from plants and Scott creates ambient soundscapes from fungi, bacteria, and mycelium. Together, they’ll show how they sense biological activity, harvest data, build and hack electronics, and turn invisible signals into experiences we can hear, see, and feel.
Participants will play with working examples and leave with practical ideas for toolchains and development strategies for their own bio-related data art.
No prerequisite skills required, just an open mind and maybe a notebook.
Come through this Patch Bay, Wednesday night!
📅 Wednesday, November 4
🕕 6 PM
📍 Gray Area / Grand Theater
🔗RSVP in the link in bio
Patch Bay is a new Wednesday night series for media artists, creative technologists, and anyone looking to get hands-on with emerging technology, exchange ideas, and connect with the Bay Area creative community.
💭 Have an idea for a future Patch Bay session? We especially want to hear from people looking for a place to share bold, critical, and creative work. Send us a note at [email protected]
02 Nov 2026
How do you find an island that only exists in words?
While the Scaling Intelligence exhibition closed on November 1, we’re continuing to share conversations with the artists behind the exhibition’s 11 commissioned works, presented by Gray Area and Modal.
Cezar Mocan's Searching For (Bradley Land) sends a fictional satellite intelligence named Argus after a phantom island that explorer Frederick Cook once claimed to chart over a century ago.
A custom system generates island after island, following Cook’s own written description, each one closer but never quite right. Searching For (Bradley Land) comes from a larger project—End of Signal series—which explores maps, belief, and what AI “hallucination” can reveal as well as reflecting on the construction of truth and fiction.
Learn more about Cezar's Searching For (Bradley Land) in the link in bio.
02 Nov 2026
Showcasing the full lineup for November 6th and 7th at @grayareaorg
Polar Inertia (Live)
The mysterious French group @polarinertia_ joins us for the third time following mind-bending performances at Parameter and Endzeit's first joint event together in 2024, then again for 2025's fall weekender.
Hailed as some of the most innovative and talented sound designers in modern electronic music, their style is in a genre and class of its own. Following a series of classic releases for Dement3d records and Northern Electronics, they just released their final LP 'π' earlier this year on MTY.
We've been conceptualizing this final event together for over a year. They'll be joining us on Friday, for a live AV set with visuals @by_subset and lighting by @_dustcollective, alongside a lineup they've helped curate. On Saturday, they'll perform an exclusive 5 hour live set, exploring their entire catalog, plus never before heard material and compositions, with a 360 degree stage and lighting designed by @karlalemonlime & @newnostalgia_org.
Final tickets are available, DM or check your email for the link.
.VRIL (Live)
German producer @vril_01 returns following his acclaimed live-jam sessions at Endzeit with Neel, Mike Parker and Kerrie. His new album, KRUX, out on Delsin, moves his sound toward something sharper and more driving: lush pads, heavy low end and improvised keyboard lines, and features collaborations with Verraco and Aurora Halal. It closes with Der Letzte Raum, a melodic meditation on memory and place.
Innersha (Live)
Armenian producer @innersha_ makes a long-awaited US debut with a live set rooted in releases on Ute.Rec and QEONE, including the album Inner Landscapes. The performance follows appearances this summer at Norbergfestival and Berlin’s Sanctum of Sound.
Subversive
@sub_ver_sive is a long-time member of Los Angeles's techno scene and veteran DJ. As a producer he released numerous EP's. He's also worked with Voiski as 'Deception Plan' and launched a new label this year, Serpiente Sounds. He'll be opening the night with a downtempo DJ set.
Amma Ateria (Live AV)
San Francisco's own @amma_ateria joins us to perform her highly acclaimed project,
02 Nov 2026
This week, 𝙎𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 transformed Gray Area into a space for experimentation, where 13 artists explored what becomes possible when machine intelligence is treated as a creative medium.
Only two days left to experience 𝙎𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚:
Saturday, October 31: 1 – 8 PM
Sunday, November 1: 1 – 8 PM (final day!)
📍 Gray Area, 2665 Mission St, San Francisco
Free admission — Reserve your visit: Link in bio
Walk-ins welcome!
Featuring (in order of appearance):
IMPRINT — Sasha Sorokina (@dirty.stray.dog)
00100 — Grayson Earle (@prismspecs)
Protobyte Phylogeny — Ira Greenberg (@greenberg.ira)
(Φ ᆺ Φ) asya — Miguel Novelo (@xmiguelnovelo)
The Metabolic Choir — Kristina Pulejkova (@tinapulejkova)
Tuning — Iana Chugunova (@ikovrigina)
Free Agents — Spencer Chang (@spence.r.chang)
What is it like to be a river? — Colin O’Donnell (@colin_odonnell), Justine Sun Dela Cruz (@subfeels) & Will Gardiner
Activation Studies — Rashed Haq (@rashedhaq)
Searching For (Bradley Land) — Cezar Mocan (@cezarmocan)
Between Machine and Machine — Parag Mital (@pkmital)
31 Oct 2026
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