Barry Threw

◢👁️◣ Executive & Artistic Director @grayareaorg.

[Barry Threw @barrythrew]

San Francisco once viewed technology as a civic and consciousness building medium — something that could enable collective cultural expression. In @palladiummag, @notscottmoore and I trace how that spirit atrophied — and how artists might help renew it.

[PALLADIUM Magazine @palladiummag]

Once a sanctuary for art and invention, Silicon Valley has become co-opted by bureaucracy and disbelief.

Its renewal depends on restoring faith in creation itself.

Read the new article by Barry Threw and @notscottmoore (link below):

[Gray Area @GrayAreaorg]

What happens when our thoughts become data?

This Sunday, cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and artist @Albert_DATA presents 𝙎𝙔𝙉𝘼𝙋𝙏𝙄𝘾𝙊𝙉, a live performance that uses a brain-computer interface to transform his brain activity into language, immersive visuals, and sound.

As brain-computer interfaces become more powerful, they open up new possibilities for creativity and communication while raising new questions: Who owns our neural data? How should our thoughts be protected? What rights should we have as AI gains new ways of interpreting the human mind?

𝙎𝙔𝙉𝘼𝙋𝙏𝙄𝘾𝙊𝙉 is part of 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 & 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞-𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧-𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬, a hybrid evening of research talks, performative lectures, installation, and live performance featuring @Albert_DATA, @kcimc, @entangledothers, @soficrespo91 , @feileacan_net , Esen K. Tütüncü, and @KatieHofstadter & @memoakten .

Come experience it live this Sunday!

𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 & 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞-𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧-𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬
📅 Sunday, July 26
⏰ 6 PM
📍Gray Area / Grand Theater
Tickets: https://t.co/Yub6JNQHVX

[Barry Threw @barrythrew]

@being_on_line Yes, and!

[Gray Area @GrayAreaorg]

Stop by to see this year's Gray Area Cultural Incubator Showcase!

Featuring the works of 11 local artists, designers, and creative technologists, the 2026 Cultural Incubator Showcase presents a cohort intent on rebuilding the structures around technology. From custom-trained models to artist-built platforms, it opens the studio door to the next generation of creative technologists.

💫 Opening Night: August 5, from 7 – 10 PM
📅 Open Hours: August 6 & 7, from 6 – 9 PM
🥂 Gray Area Member Preview: August 5, from 6 – 7 PM

📍 Gray Area, 2665 Mission St, SF
🎟️ RSVP at https://t.co/56zqxERx9Y

Featuring Incubator Artists:
@upcycledwords
Brandon Tai
Brian Watson
Danielle Giroux
Erik B / DreamLab Collective
facade .cafe
Gooism
Jordan Metz
Kristin Bauer
Trent Eriksen

[Barry Threw @barrythrew]

A heavy duty meeting of the minds worth your undivided attention

[empowa @imempowa]

join us July 23 at @tiatplace for a conversation between @being_on_line and @amicusadastra ⭐️

[Barry Threw @barrythrew]

@paularambles We've been doing the thing for 18 years @GrayAreaorg

[Gray Area @GrayAreaorg]

Shaped by the collision of technology, art, and counterculture that defined Mondo 2000, Deliria 2 brings together two days of film, music, conversation, speculative technology, and live performance to Gray Area August 12 & 13.

Featuring the San Francisco premiere of Nova ’78, Craig Baldwin’s Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America, @auradeluxe and Marina Berlin’s AI God Answers Your Questions, performances by the mad Mondoids, Cyrnai, and @pochanostra.

Joining them is a stacked lineup of cyberculture figures, artists, writers, filmmakers, and musicians, with @RUSirius, V. Vale, @rudytheelder, @2000_mondo, @BMcGleenon, Joe Haughey, @Annaleen, Shira Chess, @bartnagel, Your Leader, Phriendz, The Virtual Pretenderers, @johnwlaw, and more reality-hackers.

Expect a cyberdelic mix of media, sound, performance, and eccentric visual chaos.

📅
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
5:30 – 11:45 PM
Thursday, August 13, 2026
3:30 – 11:45PM
📍Gray Area / Grand Theater

Grab your tickets now at https://t.co/gmLYXb5uT1

[Barry Threw @barrythrew]

@amicusadastra Don't slop believin'

[Barry Threw @barrythrew]

@amicusadastra Solid one

[Barry Threw @barrythrew]

@majamediaco @JoalStein @being_on_line @tobyshorin @GrayAreaorg https://t.co/wCgwlNhomz

[Barry Threw @barrythrew]

@majamediaco @JoalStein @being_on_line @tobyshorin We hosted this talk at @GrayAreaorg in March

[Gray Area @GrayAreaorg]

Shaped by the collision of technology, art, and counterculture that defined Mondo 2000, Deliria 2 brings together two days of film, music, conversation, speculative technology, and live performance to Gray Area August 12 & 13.

The program features the San Francisco premiere of Nova ’78, Craig Baldwin’s Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America, Tony Parisi and Marina Berlin’s AI God Answers Your Questions, performances by the mad Mondoids, Cyrnai, and Guillermo Gómez-Peña / La Pocha Nostra.

Joining them is a stacked lineup of cyberculture figures, artists, writers, filmmakers, and musicians, with R.U. Sirius, V. Vale, Rudy Rucker, Marc Franklin (Lord Nose), Brian McGleenon, Joe Haughey, Annalee Newitz, Shira Chess, Bart Nagel, Your Leader, Phriendz, The Virtual Pretenderers, John Law, and more reality-hackers.

Expect a cyberdelic mix of media, sound, performance, and eccentric visual chaos.

📅
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
5:30 – 11:45 PM
Thursday, August 13, 2026
3:30 – 11:45PM
📍Gray Area / Grand Theater

Grab your tickets now at the link in bio! 🌀

[Ian Johnson @Ianwdj]

Love this city!
Still processing the way @maxcoopermax transformed this space at @GrayAreaorg

[Barry Threw @barrythrew]

@taotechic Perhaps New Zealand needs 50,000 art hoes

[Gray Area @GrayAreaorg]

🚨APPLICATIONS CLOSE TOMORROW, JULY 15🚨

Last day to apply: Modal x Gray Area are seeking artists exploring sustained engagements with artificial intelligence and the arts, with projects that explore new forms of artistic expression and challenge conventional ideas about generative technology.

Apply by end of day on July 15!

More details at https://t.co/CHOZUY3PBY and at the link in bio 🌀

[Barry Threw @barrythrew]

@imempowa @blaiseaguera @tiatplace Honestly I'm amazed that hasn't happened more, you have some good ones out.

[Gray Area @GrayAreaorg]

See Nancy Baker Cahill’s city-scale participatory AR artwork over Alcatraz from your phone.

'FREE' explores the subject of who freedom is extended to and who remains excluded, with each personal message sent taking flight as a digital paper plane and transformed into a bird that joins a growing conversation.

Download the free bilingual '4th Wall' app on iOS or Android and view the AR artwork from the San Francisco waterfront, or send a message from anywhere in the world. 🪽

[Barry Threw @barrythrew]

Slop is the smallest possible straw you can try to suck a cultural discourse through.

[Barry Threw @barrythrew]

Waiting for America 256

[Barry Threw @barrythrew]

@round I've never encountered an application limited to people who have received a graduate degree in the last two years before.