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Gray Area Festival 2020
Gray Area Festival
Now in its 6th year, Gray Area Festival expands beyond its focus on experiential exhibitions into an exploration of artists working in Radical Simulation — using immersive worldbuilding to reimagine adjacent possible presents through themes of embodiment, social justice, identity, decolonialism, and regenerative ecology. In this unique online festival, experience artist presentations from within virtual worlds, and engage with a global community bringing together diverse backgrounds and perspectives to creatively address the critical issues facing our rapidly evolving reality.
Join as a member to access the Festival Archive of inspiring Festival Talks, Exhibition, and Workshops on-demand.
Gray Area Festival Workshops
Whether you’re a beginner or looking to refine your technical skills, Gray Area Festival offers a full week of online creative code workshops to provide hands-on learning opportunities. With introductions to open-source resources and toolkits for creativity, learn a variety of skills to create expressive and engaging experiences.
Gain access to video documentation following each workshop session with Cultivator Access.
Bin Ends Exhibition
Every year, Gray Area Festival presents an exhibition exploring critical issues of our time through artistic perspectives. For the first time ever, the Gray Area Festival Exhibition will be experienced online as we continue to reimagine our relationship with art in an increasingly digital world. Hosted in a networked virtual gallery on New Art City, the exhibition format explores new ways of experiencing art together in online spaces.
Gain access to the exhibition with Solidarity Access.
Highlights
MANIFESTO
City Lights x Gray Area
What is the role of creativity in reimagining our world when great upheavals create openings for change? City Lights x Gray Area present MANIFESTO, an online series featuring artists, performers, writers, and cultural activists.
Expanded Cinema With Gene Youngblood
Gray Area Reads! examines how culture and technology can engage with society. For our first edition, we hosted a series of conversations with Gene Youngblood celebrating the 50th anniversary of Expanded Cinema, a book enormously influential to our thinking around immersive art.
Gray Area Artist Salon
Learn more about what artists in Gray Area Artist Incubator are creating in a series of online artist presentations.
Topics include machine-generated landscapes, immersive audio, and algorithmic simulations of the natural world.
Curated art weekly
Receive cultural bites in your inbox every week. Expand your knowledge with artist interviews, curated playlists, and innovative new work.
Connect online
Join our global community online. Share your work and meet artists in our creative network.
Learn and create
Enroll in tailored art and creative code courses to equip yourself with technical skills and creative inspiration.
Livestream online classes weekly with dedicated instructors providing a one-on-one learning experience.
Listen to live sets
Listen to new music by artists and tastemakers from around the world in curated playlists.
Join Us!
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