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  • Refresh Everything Grant Proposal: Creative Technology Studies

    Refresh Everything Grant Proposal: Creative Technology Studies
    From: GAFFTA Views: 4 0 ratings Time: 01:01 More in Nonprofits & Activism

    Published 4 months ago

    By GAFFTA

  • GAFFTA on The Future of Civic Engagement

    GAFFTA on The Future of Civic Engagement
    From: GAFFTA Views: 1 0 ratings Time: 01:54 More in Nonprofits & Activism

    Published 4 months ago

    By GAFFTA

  • Summer of Smart: "Why Buildings Matter," Brandon Tinianov

    Serious Energy CTO Brandon Tinianov kicks off the Summer of Smart Urban Innovation Hackathon on Buildings, Energy and Transportation with a talk on "Why Buildings Matter."

    Published 6 months ago

    By GAFFTA

  • Summer of Smart is "Policy Entrepreneurism" - Candidate Phil Ting

    SF Assessor and Mayoral Candidate Phil Ting drops by the "Summer of Smart" Buildings, Transportation and Energy Hackathon at 9:30 Saturday night. GAFFTA's Peter Hirshberg spoke with him about the underlying ideas of Summer of Smart adding innovation, new ideas and prototypes to the SF Mayoral Race.

    Published 6 months ago

    By GAFFTA

  • Summer of Smart - Energy, Buildings & Transportation Hackathon

    Christine Outram reports on her team's progress from the Sumer of Smart Urban Innovation weekend, 10:00 PM July 23 2011. Eight teams are developing apps in the Energy, Buildings and Transportation arena. Several of the teams, including this one, are working to crowdsource data to create build solutions that allow tenants and building managers to understand and manage built space more efficiently.

    Published 6 months ago

    By GAFFTA

  • Motorola Mobility Fdn Empowerment Grant - GAFFTA

    Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA) Creative Technology Studies Program, San Francisco

    Published 6 months ago

    By GAFFTA

  • MorganPackardGAFFTA

    MorganPackardGAFFTA
    From: GAFFTA Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 01:43 More in Nonprofits & Activism

    Published 7 months ago

    By GAFFTA

  • Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom visits Summer of Smart

    Lt. Governor (and former SF mayor) Gavin Newsom drops in on the Summer of Smart Urban Hackathon on June 25th, 2011. He speaks with Gray Area Foundation for the Arts Chairman about the bottoms-up open government movement and the cool evolution of San Francisco's Mid Market District. summerofsmart.org is four month experiment in urban innovation created in partnership with the San Francisco Foundation, Code for America, Change.org, Govfresh, Serious Energy, Craig Newmark and many other great folks.

    Published 7 months ago

    By GAFFTA

  • Gray Area Foundation 2011

    Gray Area Foundation 2011
    From: GAFFTA Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 02:46 More in Nonprofits & Activism

    Published 1 year ago

    By GAFFTA

  • A/V Performance Night

    A/V Performance Night
    From: GAFFTA Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 01:44 More in Nonprofits & Activism

    Published 1 year ago

    By GAFFTA

  • Liquid Time Tenderloin by Camille Utterback

    Liquid Time Tenderloin by Camille Utterback http://camilleutterback.com/projects/liquid-time-tenderloin/ http://gaffta.org/

    Published 1 year ago

    By GAFFTA

  • Syzygryd at Burning Man 2010

    Syzygryd running on Thursday of Burning Man 2010 by Interpretive Arson, False Profit Labs, and GAFFTA, Oakland, CA Syzygryd is a town square for the collaborative creation of music. It's a public space, it's a sculpture, and it's a musical instrument. It's the most beautiful expression we can imagine of the joy we take in community, music, technology, fire, sculpture and architecture. Humans have always made music together with whatever instruments they had. Bones became flutes, hides became drums. A hundred years ago the symphony orchestra was the pinnacle of musical collaboration. Then came the electric guitar and the four-piece band. Our community today, our city in the desert, is inextricably linked with the rise of electronic music, but it's no longer enough to have crowds cheering for the performer. Dancing together is good stuff, but we're not so keen on the concept of an audience. It's time our interactive metropolis had an interactive concert hall.

    Published 1 year ago

    By GAFFTA

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    By Richard Hart

    SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- In San Francisco's Tenderloin district, social networks are leading to "social artworks."

    In a brand new gallery and workspace, a community of designers is networking artware and software. It is the latest creation in the drive to discover a new art form.

    "So, here you see this grid," said Daniel Massy. "You can sort of fill it in with notes."

    On a 15-foot wall projection, Massey recently composed music using a tool developed with fellow artists Ryan Alexander and Gabriel Dunne. It's called Seaquence and it is at the intersection of music and images.

    With it, you can build a sea creature by creating music or create music by building a creature. Changing the attack, sustain and decay envelope of the music changes the body of your creature.

    Seaquence is the latest project of Gray Area, an organization brightening up one corner of San Francisco's Tenderloin. Josette Melchor is its Executive Director.

    "Gray Area Foundation for the Arts is a non-profit," she explains. "We're dedicated to building social consciousness through digital culture."

    Gray Area exhibits interactive works such as Robert Hodgin's new liquid screen installation and a laser scanner/projector by Aaron Koblin.

    The next step is to exploit social networks. For example, two artists are using Gray Area to develop a web app to annotate works of art socially. Seaquest is also destined for the web, Daniel Massey promises.

    "The idea is to create this environment in which people could collectively, online, create music and share music with each other in a playful way," he says. "So, it takes on almost a game feel to it."

    If you can't buy it the way you'd buy a painting or sculpture, how do you know when this kind of art is a success?

    "I guess you could see how many page views you have," Melchor laughs. "Or YouTube streams!"

    In the end, she points out that good art spreads whether networked or not.

    "It continues to further the community and further this kind of study, and get the word out so we're able to get more people involved. It's spreading. It's social," she says.

    After all, Tweets are music too.

    You can drop by the Gray Area installation to inspect Seaquence before it goes to the web.
    (Copyright ©2010 KGO-TV/DT. All Rights Reserved.)

    Published 1 year ago

    By GAFFTA

  • PROTOTYPE Book Flip-through

    First edition of the PROTOTYPE book documenting the works of the first group of resident artists at GAFFTA.

    Featuring the documentation of works by: Alphonzo Solorzano, Miles Stemper, Daniel Massey, Gabriel Dunne, Ryan Alexander

    First editions available in at the PROTOTYPE closing reception:

    Gray Area Foundation For the Arts
    Friday, February 5th
    6PM 10PM

    blog post: http://www.gaffta.org/2010/02/01/prototype-closing-reception/

    Future editions available through gaffta.org shortly

    Published 2 years ago

    By GAFFTA

  • PROTOTYPE Installation Timelapse at GAFFTA

    PROTOTYPE Installation timelapse

    January 2010
    gaffta.org/2009/12/16/prototype/

    The Gray Area studios have operated as a laboratory for its five artists in residence, fostering the creation of projects that overlap technology and traditional media. Using this collaborative workspace, the artists have created multi-disciplinary works that include immersive environments, digitally fabricated sculpture, kinetic paintings, audiovisual software/hardware, and other mixed media experiments. PROTOTYPE will be a dynamic group exhibition featuring a collection of individual and collaborative works created by our very first class of Resident Artists.

    Published 2 years ago

    By GAFFTA

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