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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 @charles_irl
Chih Yu Chen @____cychen
Connie Liu @theliuvre
Dylan Peet @sue_veneer
Fabian Fabro @firahfabe
Faraday @infinite_alchemy
Jeanette Andrews @jersas
Lizzie Suh @leeeezeeee
Sarah Alli @sarah.cr2
SiQi He @siq____
Theo Popov @theopopo1
Tracy Jones
Wolf Boxuan Chen @wolfboxuanchen

RSVP: link in bio!

🌀 TICKETS NOW ON SALE 🌀

Max Cooper @maxcoopermax returns to Gray Area for 2 nights of 3D/AV Live, his immersive audiovisual performance system.

July 16 + 17, 2026
21+
📍 Gray Area / Grand Theater, SF

Customized to each venue, 3D/AV Live transforms architecture and space into sculptures of light and sound. Featuring his latest album Feeling Is Structure and music from across his catalog, exploring the human experience through sound.

🎟 Get tickets: link in bio!

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 (@wolfboxuanchen) 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 (@leeeezeeee) 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 (@theliuvre) 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: Link in bio!

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 (@wolfboxuanchen) 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 (@leeeezeeee) 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 (@theliuvre) 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: Link in bio!

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 (@wolfboxuanchen) 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 (@leeeezeeee) 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 (@theliuvre) 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: Link in bio!

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 (@wolfboxuanchen) 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 (@leeeezeeee) 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 (@theliuvre) 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: Link in bio!

Presenting… Post-Containment! Come celebrate an incredible 7x7 day for @rhizomedotorg with a beautiful night of sound and visuals.
Hosted at @resound_newyork at @hero__nyc

Co-hosted by @grayareaorg, @artw__rld, @alignmentchange,@artifice.nyc, @onwfwd.

w/additional curation from @bianjie.systems + @take.back.theinternet <3

Featuring performances/sets/visuals from… @hotemogf, @dorothycarlos, @deliabeat, @bianjie.systems, @loka.000, and @duality.live

Post-Containment rhizome 7x7 after party
May 16, 2026 | 9:00 PM
NYC
Tickets: Link in bio

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We’re proud to sponsor this year’s rhizome 7x7, Rhizome’s 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 year’s edition and the ongoing exchange between East Coast and West Coast creative communities.

Curated by Rhizome, Neema Githere, and 邊界 (Ian Margo &amp; Alexandre Montserrat | 世然), this year’s edition draws from Zoë Sofia’s writing to explore containment through themes of interdependence, care, and connection.

7x7 takes place at the New Museum in NYC tomorrow, May 16, 2026. Learn more at the link in bio!

Presenting… Post-Containment! Come celebrate an incredible 7x7 day for @rhizomedotorg with a beautiful night of sound and visuals.
Hosted at @resound_newyork at @hero__nyc

Co-hosted by @grayareaorg, @artw__rld, @alignmentchange,@artifice.nyc, @onwfwd.

w/additional curation from @bianjie.systems + @take.back.theinternet <3

Featuring performances/sets/visuals from… @hotemogf, @dorothycarlos, @deliabeat, @bianjie.systems, @loka.000, and @duality.live

Post-Containment rhizome 7x7 after party
May 16, 2026 | 9:00 PM
NYC
Tickets: Link in bio

~~~

We’re proud to sponsor this year’s rhizome 7x7, Rhizome’s 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 year’s edition and the ongoing exchange between East Coast and West Coast creative communities.

Curated by Rhizome, Neema Githere, and 邊界 (Ian Margo &amp; Alexandre Montserrat | 世然), this year’s edition draws from Zoë Sofia’s writing to explore containment through themes of interdependence, care, and connection.

7x7 takes place at the New Museum in NYC tomorrow, May 16, 2026. Learn more at the link in bio!

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 (@huntrezz), Lou Fauroux (@loufauroux), Sharon Zheng (@sharon), and Yvonne Fang (@_yvonnef_) 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.

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 @scrollingpistachio

✶ Hybrid Live Coding: Designing Systems for Audiovisual Performance
with Roxanne Harris @alsoknownasrox

✶ Personal Worldbuilding with 3D Modeling in Blender
with Claudia Miranda @ghostmeat

𝓦𝓸𝓻𝓴𝓼𝓱𝓸𝓹𝓼

✶ Strange Anatomy: Exquisite Corpses with Fuser Compositor and Creative Code
with Laure Michelon @laure_michelon @fuserstudio

✶ Lecture Performance on the Web
with Taeyoon Choi @drwngdrwng

✶ Techno Improvisation with Beat DJ
with Nes Croft @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.

Links in bio!

#onlineworkshop #creativetechnology #creativecoding #gamedesign #blender3d #livecoding #generativeart #electronicmusic

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 @scrollingpistachio

✶ Hybrid Live Coding: Designing Systems for Audiovisual Performance
with Roxanne Harris @alsoknownasrox

✶ Personal Worldbuilding with 3D Modeling in Blender
with Claudia Miranda @ghostmeat

𝓦𝓸𝓻𝓴𝓼𝓱𝓸𝓹𝓼

✶ Strange Anatomy: Exquisite Corpses with Fuser Compositor and Creative Code
with Laure Michelon @laure_michelon @fuserstudio

✶ Lecture Performance on the Web
with Taeyoon Choi @drwngdrwng

✶ Techno Improvisation with Beat DJ
with Nes Croft @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.

Links in bio!

#onlineworkshop #creativetechnology #creativecoding #gamedesign #blender3d #livecoding #generativeart #electronicmusic

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 @scrollingpistachio

✶ Hybrid Live Coding: Designing Systems for Audiovisual Performance
with Roxanne Harris @alsoknownasrox

✶ Personal Worldbuilding with 3D Modeling in Blender
with Claudia Miranda @ghostmeat

𝓦𝓸𝓻𝓴𝓼𝓱𝓸𝓹𝓼

✶ Strange Anatomy: Exquisite Corpses with Fuser Compositor and Creative Code
with Laure Michelon @laure_michelon @fuserstudio

✶ Lecture Performance on the Web
with Taeyoon Choi @drwngdrwng

✶ Techno Improvisation with Beat DJ
with Nes Croft @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.

Links in bio!

#onlineworkshop #creativetechnology #creativecoding #gamedesign #blender3d #livecoding #generativeart #electronicmusic

I will present brand new material at the DATA/LOSS showcase at GRAY AREA SF on May 23.
Head over to grayarea dot org for info and tickets

#electronicmusic #rhythmicnoise #noise

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 → bit.ly/pedagogy-after-AI (Link in bio)

Join us on May 30th in San Francisco for an evening of community, solidarity, and action in support of our medical solidarity work in Palestine 🇵🇸

We’re excited to announce Tommy Marcus as the second speaker in our lineup. Tommy will be joining the evening as part of a special panel discussion alongside other voices committed to justice, advocacy, and collective action for Palestine.

The evening will also feature additional speakers, local vendors, and opportunities to connect with community members dedicated to the cause.

If you’re in the Bay Area, we hope you’ll join us as we come together to raise critical funds and stand in solidarity with Palestine.

📍 San Francisco: Gray Area Theatre
📅 May 30, 12:00 to 5:30pm

TICKET LINK IN BIO

Join us on May 30th in San Francisco for an evening of community, solidarity, and action in support of our medical solidarity work in Palestine 🇵🇸

We’re excited to announce Tommy Marcus as the second speaker in our lineup. Tommy will be joining the evening as part of a special panel discussion alongside other voices committed to justice, advocacy, and collective action for Palestine.

The evening will also feature additional speakers, local vendors, and opportunities to connect with community members dedicated to the cause.

If you’re in the Bay Area, we hope you’ll join us as we come together to raise critical funds and stand in solidarity with Palestine.

📍 San Francisco: Gray Area Theatre
📅 May 30, 12:00 to 5:30pm

TICKET LINK IN BIO

🌀 Save the Date 🌀
Max Cooper @maxcoopermax returns to Gray Area for 2 nights of 3D/AV Live, his immersive audiovisual performance system.

July 16 + 17, 2026
21+
📍 Gray Area / Grand Theater, SF

Customized to each venue, 3D/AV Live transforms architecture and space into sculptures of light and sound. Featuring his latest album "Feeling Is Structure" and music from across his catalog, exploring the human experience through sound.

🎟 Sign up for first access to tickets: https://maxcooper.os.fan/sign-up-for-first-tickets (link in bio)

More soon!

“What surprised me was how immersive and focused I became.”

At the Department of Species Services, visitors step into the role of human pollination technicians — manually transferring pollen between California poppy flowers in response to pollinator decline.

Some people move carefully.
Some become unexpectedly emotional.
Some don’t want to stop.

What begins as a simple task slowly shifts into something else:
attention,
care,
and ecological labor.

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Visit Gray Area in San Francisco to find your match and enter the system.

On view through 5/9 @grayareaorg

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· @shihan.design Director & Design Futurist
· @mingyong_art Creative Technologist & New Media Artist, UC San Diego
· @hanzhangpqqo Interactive Engineer & Computer Musician, UC San Diego
· @clclem.liu Visual Artist
· Jiaye Leng AI Engineer & Researcher, CityU of Hong Kong
· @abigail.movesDancer & Choreographer
· Neal WilliamsConsulting Pollination Ecologist, UC Davis

Curators:
· @habitualtruant
· @hwkns.art
· @exteeng
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#FutureOfWork #Ecology#SpeculativeDesign #MoreThanHuman #NewMediaArt

GRAY AREA SF, 5/23/26, 8PM
DATA/LOSS showcase “Erosion of Form”
with

MALARKI
HEMADAXIS
NUNDALE
ERIC SCHLAPPI
THOABATH

and visual curation by ARSON RIVVERS

Get your tickets now at grayarea dot org or follow link in bio

#electronicmusic #industrialmusic #liveelectronicmusic #liveshow #errorgrid