Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
American non-profit arts organization
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| 2023 | Gray Area hosted 'TECHS-MECHS', a solo exhibition by Mexican-Canadian new media artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, challenging stereotypes about Mexican art by highlighting technological and cultural experimentation. |
| 2020 | Produced 'The End of You' exhibition featuring twelve selected artists from the Experiential Space Research Lab, including Bz Zhang, Celeste Martore, Jonathon Keats, and others. |
| 2020 | Held the 6th Gray Area Festival virtually as 'Radical Simulation' during the coronavirus pandemic. Keynote speakers included Professor D. Fox Harrell from MIT and Ruha Benjamin. The festival featured digital art works by Theo Triantafyllidis, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Phazero, LaTurbo Avedon, Lawrence Lek, Morehshin Allahyari, and Stephanie Dinkins. |
| 2019 | Initiated the Experiential Space Research Lab in partnership with Gaian Systems, supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. |
| 2019 | Organized the Gray Area Festival focusing on experiential technologies including augmented reality, virtual reality, and XR. Featured the Experiential Space Research Lab, ISM Hexadrome, and a robotic exoskeleton performance called Inferno. Josette Melchor transitioned from Executive Director to Board Member, with Barry Threw becoming the new Executive Director. |
| July 27 2018 | Hosted the Gray Area Festival with a focus on Blockchain and Distributed Systems, opening with the Distributed Systems exhibition curated by Barry Threw. The festival included daytime talks and night-time audiovisual performances on July 27-28. |
| 2017 | Conducted the 3rd Gray Area Festival, exploring challenges to the optimism of the future. |
| 2016 | Gray Area mounted 'DeepDream: The Art of Neural Networks', the first exhibition showcasing art created by Generative Adversarial Networks (AI), pioneering the representation of artificial intelligence in art. |
| 2016 | Held the 2nd Gray Area Festival, focusing on a prompt by Buckminster Fuller and featuring the Refraction Exhibition with a holistic approach to the arts. |
| 2015 | Launched the first Gray Area Festival in San Francisco, featuring presentations by Jane Metcalfe, Michael Naimark, Golan Levin, Camille Utterback, and night performances by Shigeto and Alessandro Cortini. |
| 2010 | Collaborated with Interpretive Arson, False Profit Labs, and Ardent Heavy Industries to create Syzygryd, a large-scale interactive art piece unveiled at the Burning Man event. |
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