Barry Threw
@barrythrew.com
◢👁️◣ Executive & Artistic Director @grayarea.org
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Get ready for Max Cooper’s 3D AV tour, On Being — live at Gray Area
"Striking performances that are nothing short of pure spectacle" - Resident Advisor.
📅 Wednesday, August 27 with Berry B | 8PM
🌌 Thursday, August 28 with Sara Afshar | 9:30PM
🎟️ Get tix: bit.ly/Max-Cooper-Aug-27-28
"Striking performances that are nothing short of pure spectacle" - Resident Advisor.
📅 Wednesday, August 27 with Berry B | 8PM
🌌 Thursday, August 28 with Sara Afshar | 9:30PM
🎟️ Get tix: bit.ly/Max-Cooper-Aug-27-28
August 15, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Get ready for Max Cooper’s 3D AV tour, On Being — live at Gray Area
"Striking performances that are nothing short of pure spectacle" - Resident Advisor.
📅 Wednesday, August 27 with Berry B | 8PM
🌌 Thursday, August 28 with Sara Afshar | 9:30PM
🎟️ Get tix: bit.ly/Max-Cooper-Aug-27-28
"Striking performances that are nothing short of pure spectacle" - Resident Advisor.
📅 Wednesday, August 27 with Berry B | 8PM
🌌 Thursday, August 28 with Sara Afshar | 9:30PM
🎟️ Get tix: bit.ly/Max-Cooper-Aug-27-28
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TWO WEEKS OUT! Max Cooper comes to SF for two nights only to present a stunning live 3D audiovisual show for his new record On Being.
With Berry B on 8/27, and Sara Afshar on 8/28
📅 8, 27 | 8 PM
🌌 8, 28 | 9:30 PM
🎟️ Get tix: https://tickets.grayarea.org/events?category=Multiple-Date%20Event
With Berry B on 8/27, and Sara Afshar on 8/28
📅 8, 27 | 8 PM
🌌 8, 28 | 9:30 PM
🎟️ Get tix: https://tickets.grayarea.org/events?category=Multiple-Date%20Event
August 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
TWO WEEKS OUT! Max Cooper comes to SF for two nights only to present a stunning live 3D audiovisual show for his new record On Being.
With Berry B on 8/27, and Sara Afshar on 8/28
📅 8, 27 | 8 PM
🌌 8, 28 | 9:30 PM
🎟️ Get tix: https://tickets.grayarea.org/events?category=Multiple-Date%20Event
With Berry B on 8/27, and Sara Afshar on 8/28
📅 8, 27 | 8 PM
🌌 8, 28 | 9:30 PM
🎟️ Get tix: https://tickets.grayarea.org/events?category=Multiple-Date%20Event
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ANNOUNCING! We're excited to present We Live On by Deru
Featuring three robotic player pianos, this immersive performance puts us into a constellation of sound blurring the lines between performance, installation, and memory.
📅 July 26 | 8 PM
Tix: https://grayarea.org/event/deru-we-will-live-on/
Featuring three robotic player pianos, this immersive performance puts us into a constellation of sound blurring the lines between performance, installation, and memory.
📅 July 26 | 8 PM
Tix: https://grayarea.org/event/deru-we-will-live-on/
July 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
ANNOUNCING! We're excited to present We Live On by Deru
Featuring three robotic player pianos, this immersive performance puts us into a constellation of sound blurring the lines between performance, installation, and memory.
📅 July 26 | 8 PM
Tix: https://grayarea.org/event/deru-we-will-live-on/
Featuring three robotic player pianos, this immersive performance puts us into a constellation of sound blurring the lines between performance, installation, and memory.
📅 July 26 | 8 PM
Tix: https://grayarea.org/event/deru-we-will-live-on/
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We're excited to announce early access to our newest workshop, 𝑩𝒊𝒐𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄: 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝑫𝒓𝒖𝒎 𝑴𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝑴𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒅𝒚, led by artist and researcher Barbara Nerness (@soupbetweenyourears) with Gray Area Research Fellow Anastasia Chernysheva (@biofeedback_and_arts).
July 2, 2025 at 12:58 AM
We're excited to announce early access to our newest workshop, 𝑩𝒊𝒐𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄: 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝑫𝒓𝒖𝒎 𝑴𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝑴𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒅𝒚, led by artist and researcher Barbara Nerness (@soupbetweenyourears) with Gray Area Research Fellow Anastasia Chernysheva (@biofeedback_and_arts).
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Join us for final presentations from our DWeb for Creators Intensive, featuring projects on Cultural Memory, Community Networks, & decentralized tools like IPFS, blockchain, & mesh networks.
📅 June 18, 2025 | 10AM PT
📍Online
Free RSVP:
https://grayarea.org/event/dweb-for-creators-project-salon/
📅 June 18, 2025 | 10AM PT
📍Online
Free RSVP:
https://grayarea.org/event/dweb-for-creators-project-salon/
DWeb for Creators Project Salon
Join us for the DWeb for Creators Project Salon, where participants will present lightning talks on their research for the DWeb for Creators course. Participants’ work spans Cultural Memory, Community Networks, and Decentralized Tools. Projects will showcase decentralized approaches to data sovere...
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June 4, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Join us for final presentations from our DWeb for Creators Intensive, featuring projects on Cultural Memory, Community Networks, & decentralized tools like IPFS, blockchain, & mesh networks.
📅 June 18, 2025 | 10AM PT
📍Online
Free RSVP:
https://grayarea.org/event/dweb-for-creators-project-salon/
📅 June 18, 2025 | 10AM PT
📍Online
Free RSVP:
https://grayarea.org/event/dweb-for-creators-project-salon/
Happy Pauline Oliveros' birthday to those who celebrate.
May 31, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Happy Pauline Oliveros' birthday to those who celebrate.
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If you have $10 to spare, @grayarea.org is trying to make up for a cancelled NEA grant to organize its annual festival, one of the few in the US “addressing the most urgent topics in technology and society through radical artistic inquiry.” Give if you can! ⬇️
Federal Arts Funding Withdrawn from Gray Area
Last Friday, Gray Area received confirmation that the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has canceled our $50,000 grant, which had been awarded to support this year’s Gray Area Festival. This puts ...
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May 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
If you have $10 to spare, @grayarea.org is trying to make up for a cancelled NEA grant to organize its annual festival, one of the few in the US “addressing the most urgent topics in technology and society through radical artistic inquiry.” Give if you can! ⬇️
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ON TIMEKEEPING, NATURE & DEMOCRACY
Matt Prewitt talks with Jonathon Keats about the philosophy of timekeeping and the promise of alternative systems such as the river clock
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Matt Prewitt talks with Jonathon Keats about the philosophy of timekeeping and the promise of alternative systems such as the river clock
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Jonathon Keats: Experimental Philosopher
Podcast Episode · RadicalxChange(s) · 05/16/2025 · 1h 8m
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May 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
ON TIMEKEEPING, NATURE & DEMOCRACY
Matt Prewitt talks with Jonathon Keats about the philosophy of timekeeping and the promise of alternative systems such as the river clock
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...
Matt Prewitt talks with Jonathon Keats about the philosophy of timekeeping and the promise of alternative systems such as the river clock
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...
My talk with Matt Prewitt @radxchange.bsky.social "Where does knowledge come from?" @fundingthecommons.bsky.social SF 03/16/25; the beginning of some ideas around how funding mechanics relate to knowledge production and innovation... m.youtube.com/watch?v=CiJB...
Where Does Knowledge Come From? Funding Informational Commons – San Francisco 2025
YouTube video by Funding the Commons
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April 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
My talk with Matt Prewitt @radxchange.bsky.social "Where does knowledge come from?" @fundingthecommons.bsky.social SF 03/16/25; the beginning of some ideas around how funding mechanics relate to knowledge production and innovation... m.youtube.com/watch?v=CiJB...
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🌍 Exhibition Opening: CARBONIVORE
For Earth Day 2025, Gray Area presents Carbonivore, a new exhibition by the Missing Objects Library, a collaboration between artists Asma Kazmi and Jill Miller.
📅 April 22 · 6–8PM
📍 Gray Area Gallery
RSVP: grayarea.org/visit/gallery/
For Earth Day 2025, Gray Area presents Carbonivore, a new exhibition by the Missing Objects Library, a collaboration between artists Asma Kazmi and Jill Miller.
📅 April 22 · 6–8PM
📍 Gray Area Gallery
RSVP: grayarea.org/visit/gallery/
April 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
🌍 Exhibition Opening: CARBONIVORE
For Earth Day 2025, Gray Area presents Carbonivore, a new exhibition by the Missing Objects Library, a collaboration between artists Asma Kazmi and Jill Miller.
📅 April 22 · 6–8PM
📍 Gray Area Gallery
RSVP: grayarea.org/visit/gallery/
For Earth Day 2025, Gray Area presents Carbonivore, a new exhibition by the Missing Objects Library, a collaboration between artists Asma Kazmi and Jill Miller.
📅 April 22 · 6–8PM
📍 Gray Area Gallery
RSVP: grayarea.org/visit/gallery/
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New In-Person Workshop!
𝘽𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙏𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙬: 𝙍𝙚𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙃𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘾𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚
with experimental philosopher, artist, and writer Jonathon Keats
📆 May 4, 2025 | 1–4 PM
Spots are limited. Sign up today:
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𝘽𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙏𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙬: 𝙍𝙚𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙃𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘾𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚
with experimental philosopher, artist, and writer Jonathon Keats
📆 May 4, 2025 | 1–4 PM
Spots are limited. Sign up today:
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April 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
New In-Person Workshop!
𝘽𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙏𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙬: 𝙍𝙚𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙃𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘾𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚
with experimental philosopher, artist, and writer Jonathon Keats
📆 May 4, 2025 | 1–4 PM
Spots are limited. Sign up today:
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𝘽𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙏𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙬: 𝙍𝙚𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙃𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘾𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚
with experimental philosopher, artist, and writer Jonathon Keats
📆 May 4, 2025 | 1–4 PM
Spots are limited. Sign up today:
grayarea.org/course/build...
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Gray Area presents 🎥 Speculations on Capture, a new film by Morehshin Allahyari. Stick around for a Q&A with Usha Iyer, plus a cocktail hour 🍹✨
Free for members!
Saturday, April 19, 2025
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Presented with support from the San Francisco Arts Commission.
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Free for members!
Saturday, April 19, 2025
🔗 grayarea.org/event/specul...
Presented with support from the San Francisco Arts Commission.
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SPECULATIONS ON CAPTURE | Film Screening with Morehshin Allahyari in Conversation with Usha Iyer
grayarea.org
April 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Gray Area presents 🎥 Speculations on Capture, a new film by Morehshin Allahyari. Stick around for a Q&A with Usha Iyer, plus a cocktail hour 🍹✨
Free for members!
Saturday, April 19, 2025
🔗 grayarea.org/event/specul...
Presented with support from the San Francisco Arts Commission.
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Free for members!
Saturday, April 19, 2025
🔗 grayarea.org/event/specul...
Presented with support from the San Francisco Arts Commission.
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ANNOUNCING April's Simulation Session, our free monthly event series facilitated by the World Engines Lab, helping sustain our local community of 3D designers, artists, and technologists! This month's speaker:
@cgingold
📅 Monday, April 21 | 6PM
RSVP: grayarea.org/event/simula...
@cgingold
📅 Monday, April 21 | 6PM
RSVP: grayarea.org/event/simula...
Simulation Sessions April 2025 with Chaim Gingold
grayarea.org
April 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
ANNOUNCING April's Simulation Session, our free monthly event series facilitated by the World Engines Lab, helping sustain our local community of 3D designers, artists, and technologists! This month's speaker:
@cgingold
📅 Monday, April 21 | 6PM
RSVP: grayarea.org/event/simula...
@cgingold
📅 Monday, April 21 | 6PM
RSVP: grayarea.org/event/simula...
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Back by popular demand!
🏗️ 🎹 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐒𝐲𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐬 is a 2-day workshop where you'll build your own DIY synth from scratch.
No experience needed and all materials provided.
📆 Apr 26–27
👉 grayarea.org/course/bread...
🏗️ 🎹 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐒𝐲𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐬 is a 2-day workshop where you'll build your own DIY synth from scratch.
No experience needed and all materials provided.
📆 Apr 26–27
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Breadboarding Modular Synthesizers Workshop
In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to design basic electronic oscillators with integrated circuits and discrete components. These principals will allow us to synthesize musical sounds from ...
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April 7, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Back by popular demand!
🏗️ 🎹 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐒𝐲𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐬 is a 2-day workshop where you'll build your own DIY synth from scratch.
No experience needed and all materials provided.
📆 Apr 26–27
👉 grayarea.org/course/bread...
🏗️ 🎹 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐒𝐲𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐬 is a 2-day workshop where you'll build your own DIY synth from scratch.
No experience needed and all materials provided.
📆 Apr 26–27
👉 grayarea.org/course/bread...
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Closing out our Creative Code Intensive instructor series is Kate Hollenbach, Gray Area’s Director of Education, who’ll be teaching 4 units in this year’s newly redesigned program.
March 29, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Closing out our Creative Code Intensive instructor series is Kate Hollenbach, Gray Area’s Director of Education, who’ll be teaching 4 units in this year’s newly redesigned program.
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Meet Alexa Ann Bonomo, one of our expert instructors in the newly redesigned Creative Code Intensive!
March 21, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Meet Alexa Ann Bonomo, one of our expert instructors in the newly redesigned Creative Code Intensive!
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Meet Tonz ( @scrollingpistachio ), one of the instructors leading this year’s Creative Code Intensive!
Tonz is an interactive artist creating fantastical transmedia experiences that invite players to playfully dissect social issues.
Tonz is an interactive artist creating fantastical transmedia experiences that invite players to playfully dissect social issues.
March 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Meet Tonz ( @scrollingpistachio ), one of the instructors leading this year’s Creative Code Intensive!
Tonz is an interactive artist creating fantastical transmedia experiences that invite players to playfully dissect social issues.
Tonz is an interactive artist creating fantastical transmedia experiences that invite players to playfully dissect social issues.
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TOMORROW!! Join us for an Artist Talk & Happy Hour with artist Mélanie Courtinat and explore her interactive game 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓢𝓲𝓻𝓮𝓷, now on view in the Gray Area Gallery. Enjoy drinks, a guided playthrough, and a Q&A moderated by Wade Wallerstein
RSVP: grayarea.org/event/artist...
RSVP: grayarea.org/event/artist...
March 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
TOMORROW!! Join us for an Artist Talk & Happy Hour with artist Mélanie Courtinat and explore her interactive game 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓢𝓲𝓻𝓮𝓷, now on view in the Gray Area Gallery. Enjoy drinks, a guided playthrough, and a Q&A moderated by Wade Wallerstein
RSVP: grayarea.org/event/artist...
RSVP: grayarea.org/event/artist...
We had a very large grant at @grayarea.org in collaboration with @techsoup.bsky.social doing workforce development with creative coding in rural areas that is being cut due these changes.
BREAKING: The head of the $42 billion federal BEAD program that aims to bring broadband internet to rural and unserved areas has left the Commerce Dept.
He sent a departing email warning of "deeply negative outcomes" for people if the Trump admin shifts $$ from fiber internet to Musk's Starlink:
He sent a departing email warning of "deeply negative outcomes" for people if the Trump admin shifts $$ from fiber internet to Musk's Starlink:
March 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
We had a very large grant at @grayarea.org in collaboration with @techsoup.bsky.social doing workforce development with creative coding in rural areas that is being cut due these changes.
Tomorrow at 11:00 #FtCSF join myself and Matt Prewitt @radxchange.bsky.social discussing what systems best support innovation and knowledge productions in the commons. @fundingthecommons.bsky.social @internetarchiveca.bsky.social www.fundingthecommons.io/sf-2025
San Francisco 2025 | Funding the Commons
The 12th Funding the Commons conference returns to San Francisco in 2025, hosted at the historic Internet Archive. This year, we focus on artificial intelligence—how we can fund, govern, and align the...
www.fundingthecommons.io
March 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Tomorrow at 11:00 #FtCSF join myself and Matt Prewitt @radxchange.bsky.social discussing what systems best support innovation and knowledge productions in the commons. @fundingthecommons.bsky.social @internetarchiveca.bsky.social www.fundingthecommons.io/sf-2025
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Join Rachel Lim, artist, programmer, and p5.js Editor lead, for a hands-on workshop where you'll explore @processing.org's mission, learn how to contribute to p5.js, and make your first open source contribution!
📅 April 5 | 12–3 PM
📍 Gray Area, SF
✨ All levels welcome
📅 April 5 | 12–3 PM
📍 Gray Area, SF
✨ All levels welcome
🚀 New Workshop: Intro to Open Source Contribution with p5.js
Ever wanted to contribute to open source but don’t know where to start? It’s not just about coding—there are many ways to get involved, from documentation to community building.
🔗 Register: grayarea.org/course/intro...
Ever wanted to contribute to open source but don’t know where to start? It’s not just about coding—there are many ways to get involved, from documentation to community building.
🔗 Register: grayarea.org/course/intro...
March 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Join Rachel Lim, artist, programmer, and p5.js Editor lead, for a hands-on workshop where you'll explore @processing.org's mission, learn how to contribute to p5.js, and make your first open source contribution!
📅 April 5 | 12–3 PM
📍 Gray Area, SF
✨ All levels welcome
📅 April 5 | 12–3 PM
📍 Gray Area, SF
✨ All levels welcome
“My overall concern is whether this is a sensible use of resources … As it is, we have some cute-looking hairy mice.”
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice
Genetically modified mice have traits geared towards cold tolerance, in step towards modifying elephants
www.theguardian.com
March 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
“My overall concern is whether this is a sensible use of resources … As it is, we have some cute-looking hairy mice.”
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
They left out the part of my quote where I said it's sad when anyone chooses a Christie's auction as their venue for political action.
The upcoming Augmented Intelligence sale represents the first time a major auction house is focusing entirely on works created using machine learning. Artists have mixed feelings about it.
Christie's AI art auction inspires protests – and more art
The upcoming Augmented Intelligence sale represents the first time a major auction house is focusing entirely on works created using machine learning. Artists have mixed feelings about it.
www.npr.org
February 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
They left out the part of my quote where I said it's sad when anyone chooses a Christie's auction as their venue for political action.