Type

  • Speaking / DJing

    A talk marking Gray Area's ten-year history as a nonprofit, followed by the US premiere of discrete figures by Rhizomatiks & ELEVENPLAY, curated for the anniversary.

    • Talk
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  • JMxJM — SF Pride Main Stage

    SF Pride

    Speaking / DJing

    A back-to-back set with John Major (JMxJM) on the SF Pride main stage, with live visuals by Chris Delbuck.

    • DJ Set
  • Speaking / DJing

    A conversation with media theorist Douglas Rushkoff and writer Erik Davis, recorded live at Gray Area for the Team Human podcast.

    • Talk
  • DJ Set — CCA Fashion Experience

    California College of the Arts, SF

    Speaking / DJing

    A sunset set of house and techno for the California College of the Arts' 2017 Fashion Experience and graduation celebration.

    • DJ Set
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  • Speaking / DJing

    A storytelling appearance on the Phonographic Memory podcast — on how personal relationships shape a record collection — recorded during Noise Pop's Nightlife event at the California Academy of Sciences.

    • Talk
    • DJ Set
  • Josette Melchor in conversation at the Berkeley Center for New Media.

    Deep Dreams: Between Inspiration and Hallucination

    Berkeley Center for New Media

    Speaking / DJing

    A fireside conversation with Google engineer and artist Mike Tyka on the creative possibilities of neural networks and the impact of the DeepDream project.

    • Talk
  • The Art of Neural Networks

    DLD, Berlin

    Speaking / DJing

    A talk on DeepDream and the creative possibilities of neural networks — tracing the first wave of AI-art collaboration — at the DLD conference.

    • Talk
  • Artists + Machine Intelligence

    Google

    The world's first neural-network × artist exhibition — DeepDream, produced at Gray Area in 2016 — establishing ethical frameworks for AI-creative collaboration that influenced Google's Artists and Machine Intelligence program.

    • Production
  • Google

    A 1920s modernist postal building reimagined as a workplace with public areas, landscaped courtyards, and events open to the city.

    • Place
  • Art Curation (Artist in Residence)

    Global

    Google

    Google's global art-curation and artist-residency program, built from the ground up — commissioning and curating 200+ works worldwide, with 20+ running concurrently across offices in the US and Europe. Built a 40-vendor delivery team and set a standard for representation, reaching 58% women and 43% BIPOC artists.

    • Program
  • Boland's Mill

    Dublin

    Google

    Experiential public programs at Google's Dublin campus in the historic Boland's Mill, on the quays at Grand Canal Dock.

    • Place
  • Google Visitor Experience

    Mountain View, CA

    Google

    Google's first year-round public destination — a Google Store, its first brick-and-mortar cafe, community space, and public plazas — led end-to-end within a $1B+, 16-acre development, reaching 2,000 daily visitors.

    • Place
  • Gradient Canvas

    Google AI HQ

    Google

    An AI-art collection curated for Google's AI headquarters — Refik Anadol, Trevor Paglen, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, and Rashaad Newsome — scaling AI-artist collaborations from lab experiments to public exhibition with Google Research and DeepMind.

    • Production
  • Google

    Google's London campus and first ground-up development in Europe, with Heatherwick Studio and BIG. Platform 37 opens a public ground-floor AI Exchange — free educational programming, interactive exhibitions, and cultural events.

    • Place
  • Pier 57

    New York

    Google

    Experiential public programs at Google's Hudson River waterfront landmark, home to a rooftop park and public market hall.

    • Place
  • Google

    Google's placemaking and urban-activation program, built from the ground up — transforming corporate campuses into public destinations that serve employees, neighbors, and the wider city. Directed 10–15 concurrent, high-visibility projects across the US and Europe, including the Google Visitor Experience, on a program spanning 1.5M square feet of public space and reaching 5M people a year.

    • Program
    • Place
  • PromptDJ-MIDI

    Google I/O

    Google

    An AI music prototype, featured on the main stage at Google I/O, that steers a real-time generative model with weighted prompts and a MIDI controller — blending styles live, like a DJ.

    • Production
    • DJ Set
  • Louis-Philippe Demers & Bill Vorn's robotic performance Inferno.

    Gray Area Foundation

    US premiere of Louis-Philippe Demers & Bill Vorn's robotic performance — curated and produced, including international artist visas — at Gray Area Festival.

    • Production
  • A dancer paired with real-time motion capture and generative visuals.

    discrete figures

    Gray Area Foundation

    US premiere of a dance-and-technology performance by Rhizomatiks and ELEVENPLAY — pairing live dancers with real-time motion capture, drones, and generative visuals — for Gray Area's tenth anniversary.

    • Production
  • Oakland Fire Fund

    Gray Area Foundation

    Coordinated the fund supporting hundreds of people affected by the Ghostship tragedy.

    • Production
  • Summer of Smart

    San Francisco

    Gray Area Foundation

    A series of civic hackathons inviting the public to build prototypes for the city — produced to celebrate the launch of San Francisco's Open Data initiative.

    • Place
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  • Experiential Space Research Lab

    Gray Area Foundation

    Sustainable models for artists working in the fast-evolving format of immersive experiences. Knight Foundation-supported.

    • Production
  • Grand Theater Revival

    Mission District, SF

    Gray Area Foundation

    Led fundraising to revive the historic Grand Theater as an 800-person venue in the Mission District.

    • Place
    • Production
  • The ISM Hexadome — a 360° immersive audiovisual environment of screens.

    ISM Hexadome

    Gray Area Foundation

    Curated and produced the ISM Hexadome — a 360° immersive audiovisual environment — bringing it to North America for the first time, pairing artists including Thom Yorke & Tarik Barri, Holly Herndon & Mathew Dryhurst, and Suzanne Ciani.

    • Production
  • Urban Prototyping Festival

    Gray Area Foundation

    Public activations partnering with cities to address civic issues.

    • Place
    • Production
  • Aerial view of Black Rock City, Burning Man.

    Burning Man Project

    Opening remarks for the Burning Man Artist Network Symposium, on supporting artists and the creative community.

    • Talk