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SOLD OUT! See you at tomorrow's Patch Bay Render Settings with Mikey J + Ratha Nou ⭐️
Try something new alongside fellow creatives in a low-pressure space to experiment and follow your instincts. Ratha Nou will open the evening with a creative brief and source materials. Participants can use any tools or media they like, digital or physical and we’ll close with a group showcase to share work, talk through the process, and exchange feedback.
See you soon! And...
STAY TUNED for our next Patch Bay events:
⭐️ Computational Poetry: Tools for Playing with Language Workshop with @upcycledwords on November 18
⭐️ Artist talk with Sheena Dham on December 2
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]
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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.
@TinaPulejkova'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 at grayarea.org/exhibitions/sca…
Gray Area retweeted
some shots from #ScalingIntelligence, featuring 11 new machine learning commissions. curated by me for @GrayAreaorg & @Modal ❤️❤️
Fungi soundscapes and plant-powered robots. Thank you to Scott and Kal and another thank you to all the curious minds who showed up to last night’s Patch Bay 🌱🌱
And catch more of their work November 19 at Micro to Macro!
🔗 Learn more at grayarea.org/event/micro-to-…
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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 at grayarea.org/course/breadboa…
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HAPPENING TONIGHT !!! 🌱
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 at luma.com/mgofofs3
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]
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Cybersentics Book Club is back Nov 15!
Swing by as @TaravalMusic guides us through Analog Days and the West Coast sound shaped by Buchla.
🔗 RSVP at luma.com/kxrxj1xp
TOMORROW IS THE LAST DAY
There’s still time to add your voice.
Now through November 4 , the free, bilingual 4th Wall app lets you view Nancy Baker Cahill's FREE in AR from San Francisco's waterfront or from anywhere in the world.
A love letter to those imprisoned and suffering without justice, write a message of solidarity for anyone held in detention in the United States and see as each message becomes part of a conversation that keeps growing.
Learn more at grayarea.org/.../nancy-baker… 🕊️
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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 at luma.com/mgofofs3
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]
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.
@DrawingMoving'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) at grayarea.org/exhibitions/sca…
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UNTIL THIS WEDNESDAY NOV 4 🕊️
There’s still time to add your voice.
Now through November 4 , the free, bilingual 4th Wall app lets you view Nancy Baker Cahill's FREE in AR from San Francisco's waterfront or from anywhere in the world.
A love letter to those imprisoned and suffering without justice, write a message of solidarity for anyone held in detention in the United States and see as each message becomes part of a conversation that keeps growing.
Learn more at grayarea.org/.../nancy-baker… 🕊️
There’s still time to explore Nancy Baker Cahill’s FREE at San Francisco’s waterfront or from anywhere in the world! 🕊️🌁🕊️
Since launching over Alcatraz on July 4, Nancy Baker Cahill's 𝙁𝙍𝙀𝙀 has continued to expand: a city-scale, participatory augmented reality artwork collectively created through messages about incarceration in America. 🧵
Learn more at grayarea.org/exhibitions/nan…
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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: grayarea.org/exhibitions/sca…
Walk-ins welcome!
Presented with @modal
Featuring (in order of appearance):
IMPRINT — Sasha Sorokina
00100 — @graysonearle
Protobyte Phylogeny — @iragreenberg
(Φ ᆺ Φ) asya — @xMiguelNovelo
The Metabolic Choir — @TinaPulejkova
Tuning — @ideeplistening
Free Agents — @spencerc99
What is it like to be a river? — @colin_odonnell, Justine Sun Dela Cruz & Will Gardiner
Activation Studies — @rashedhaq
Searching For (Bradley Land) — @DrawingMoving
Between Machine and Machine — @pkmital
Named after "Asya," the cat who kept Soviet linguist Yuri Knórozov company when he deciphered the Maya script in 1952, @xMiguelNovelo invites you to draw and speak new Maya glyphs into being.
Built alongside Maya speakers and scientists from the Yucatán Peninsula and the Bay Area, the project uses a custom machine learning model trained on the structure of the logographic script. Each symbol you create becomes a 3D form that appears holographic in the gallery, building a collective narrative.
Scaling Intelligence opened this past Wednesday, featuring 11 newly commissioned works by 13 artists exploring the creative possibilities of AI and large-scale cloud computing.
And there’s still plenty of time to experience the exhibition: explore all 11 works during our free gallery hours TODAY until 8 PM and throughout this weekend.
🕑 Exhibition Hours
TODAY, Oct 30: 2 – 8 PM
Sat, Oct 31: 1 – 8 PM
Sun, Nov 1: 1 – 8 PM
📍 Gray Area, 2665 Mission St, San Francisco
Free admission, donations welcome.
More info at grayarea.org/exhibitions/sca…
