Serving the San Francisco Bay Area New Music Community

                 
Gray Area Art And Technology
2665 Mission St.
San Francisco CA   
(415) 843-1423

Our mission is to apply art and technology to create positive social impact through education, civic engagement, and public programs.

We use digital tools to create art and design projects that benefit society. We test and scale projects with high impact potential, teach digital tools to support artists and technologists, and inspire our community by promoting meaningful new work.

We apply the promise and inspiration of digital art to a broader social context. Our programs are transforming cities into creative outlets, applying technology to solve problems, and shaping how art is created and consumed in the digital era.
http://grayarea.org/

Upcoming Events:
Thursday, February 13 2025 8:00 PM
Recombinant Media Labs and Gray Area present
THIRST with Franck Vigroux & Werktank

Doors: 7PM, Show: 8PM

Electronics sorcery wizard Franck Vigroux who galvanized the Gray Area / Recombinant Festival collaboration in summer 2023 with his works Atotal and Nacht returns to the Bay with the cinematic world premiere of THIRST. This intense spectacle of overlapping multi projector image layers onto a singular expansive screening canvas in 3 dimensions portrays an advanced AV approach to live telluric depictions as generated by the top Belgium based media collective Werktank. Drawing inspiration from the lexicon of road movies, Americanized iconography, and hyper-colored, tableaux-saturated aesthetics, it offers a sensory excursion that prompts reflections on postmodern symbols of transgression, rogue journeys, and yearning.

These symbols are now confronted in the concert by contemporary societal, digital, and planetary developments. The escalation of an eminent sublime in Vigroux’s pulsating brutalist sound showers pervades this electrified Neo-dystopian audio atmosphere. THIRST is a diversified piece of music with motion picture revealing the different influences of Vigroux's worldwide studio sessions over the years. He has conducted synchronized collaborations with Mika Vaino from Pan Sonic, Zeena Parkins and Zeitkratzers Reinhold Friedl from Berlin. Live music : Franck Vigroux
Video : Werktank
✚gCal  ✚iCal  More...