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Since 2008 Gray Area has been facilitating Creative Coding and Physical Computing Courses in San Francisco. We are committed to raising awareness for and participation in digital arts and culture. Through our Creative Code education program we are teaching the fundamental skills of today: open source programming, software hacking, and interaction design. We have held [...]
The original version of this post appeared on the ESRI blog. Last weekend Esri joined forces with Airbnb, the City of San Francisco’s Mayor’s Office of Innovation, and GAFFTA to put on the Discover SF Hackathon. This event brought together designers, developers, and entrepreneurs to hack the urban experience by promoting discovery and exploration for residents and tourists alike. [...]
The original version of this post appeared on the Swissnex San Francisco blog. Just how frustrated are you when your bus is late or overfilled? While one of the winning projects of the Urban Data Challenge, announced on April 6 2013 at swissnex San Francisco, sought to measure this annoyance with a frustration index, the Fusepool prize [...]
The original version of this post appeared on the blog of The Tribeca Film Institute. The latest series from the Tribeca Hacks program, Tribeca Hacks <Archives>, was held in San Francisco March 21-23 in partnership with GAFFTA, along with support from Prelinger Archives and Internet Archives. Through open call submissions, 36 filmmakers, artists, designers and developers were chosen to participate. Ten teams [...]
Art Hack Day @ GAFFTA – 2012 from Mulchio on Vimeo. Back in December 2012, Art Hack Day took place at the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA). Participants gathered in a space overlooking one of the busiest and highly trafficked streets in San Francisco to work tirelessly for 48 hours to create projects [...]
Logistics: Date: Tuesday, March 5th, 2013 Time: 7:00pm Tickets: SOLD OUT Overview: We did it! We asked the community to crowdfund a boat celebration for The Bay lights! All of you responded and within a few days we are confirmed to set sail onto the Bay. THANK YOU to all of our contributors who tilted [...]
In 2011, as part of Summer of Smart, we hosted a series of six interconnected events designed to prototype solutions to urban challenges and promote civic dialog. The events spanned three months, addressing a wide variety of themes ranging from public art to transportation to food access. All in all, over 400 participants spent over [...]
Support Gray Area this year by volunteering this Saturday, December 15th. We have plenty of 4 hour shifts, so please share this with friends and respond to volunteer@gaffta.org to let us know if you would be available to help us celebrate!
Artists, Students, Patrons, Friends! Help us reach our goal of $500,000 by December 31, 2012 and donate $50- $500 today. Thanks to you, our amazing community of designers, coders, makers, and innovators, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts is considered the leader at the intersection of art + technology + society. We have grown 325% in [...]
Writing about the intersections of arts, science, and technology presents challenges. The speed of information transfers faster than ever before which makes pinning down salient and worthwhile discussions a demanding task. Yet the presentation of innovative ideas meshed with deep and thought provoking prose on this convergence between arts and technology requires dedicated artists, [...]