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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.
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JMxJM — SF Pride Main Stage
Speaking / DJing
A back-to-back set with John Major (JMxJM) on the SF Pride main stage, with live visuals by Chris Delbuck.
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Speaking / DJing
A conversation with media theorist Douglas Rushkoff and writer Erik Davis, recorded live at Gray Area for the Team Human podcast.
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Speaking / DJing
A sunset set of house and techno for the California College of the Arts' 2017 Fashion Experience and graduation celebration.
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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.
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Deep Dreams: Between Inspiration and Hallucination
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.
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The Art of Neural Networks
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.
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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.
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Google
A 1920s modernist postal building reimagined as a workplace with public areas, landscaped courtyards, and events open to the city.
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Art Curation (Artist in Residence)
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.
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Boland's Mill
Google
Experiential public programs at Google's Dublin campus in the historic Boland's Mill, on the quays at Grand Canal Dock.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Pier 57
Google
Experiential public programs at Google's Hudson River waterfront landmark, home to a rooftop park and public market hall.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Oakland Fire Fund
Gray Area Foundation
Coordinated the fund supporting hundreds of people affected by the Ghostship tragedy.
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Summer of Smart
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.
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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.
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Grand Theater Revival
Gray Area Foundation
Led fundraising to revive the historic Grand Theater as an 800-person venue in the Mission District.
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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.
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Urban Prototyping Festival
Gray Area Foundation
Public activations partnering with cities to address civic issues.
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Burning Man Project
Opening remarks for the Burning Man Artist Network Symposium, on supporting artists and the creative community.
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