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RA Review: Robert Henke Lumière II in San Francisco
Resident Advisor
2015/11/03
The Mission District’s Gray Area Incubates Fugue Machine, A Multi-Playhead Sequencer
Techcrunch
2015/10/08
An Arts and Tech Community Finds a New Home in San Francisco
The Creators Project
2015/06/02
The Guerrilla Movement To Deploy Sensors All Over Your City
Gizmodo
2015/04/01
What the Feds Can Learn About Open Government From States and Cities
Slate Magazine
2013/11/01
How Data Visualizations Are Making Public Transportation Beautiful
Vice
2013/08/17
3 Creative Ways To Visualize Urban Public Transportation
Fast Company
2013/04/19
Creating Prototypes For Urban Space, By Combining Art And Tech
Fast Company
2012/11/22
“Urban Prototyping” Festival to Transform Public Space Through Citizen Experiments
Press Release
2012/10/11
10 Urban Projects That Could Change City Landscapes For The Better
Fast Company
2012/08/28
Creative Currency Project Tackles Urban Problems With Technology
Forbes
2012/08/17
SF’s Mid-Market gets Tech Aid to Lift its Fortunes
San Francisco Chronicle
2012/05/19
Applying Cybertechniques to Urban Problems
New York Times
2012/05/07
San Franciscans Bring Startup Approach to Homeless
Associated Press
2012/05/06
Gray Area Receives $100,000 NEA Arts in Media Grant to Support National Data Canvas
Press Release
2012/04/25
3 Hackathons Trying to Change the World
Mashable
2012/04/18
Art Hack: Crowdsourcing Digital Art From The City
Fast Company
2012/03/15
Flood of Government Data Fuels Rise in City Apps
Associated Press
2011/11/26
San Francisco Hackers Work With The City To Make It Run Smoother
Fast Company
2011/10/05
Man uses fish poo, sensors to grow garden
Smart Planet
2011/09/25
Summer of Smart Launches to Harness Creative Technology and Urbanism communities to Make Lasting Transformation on Bay Area Politics and Civic Life
Press Release
2011/06/09
The ARTery Project Partners Activate Central Market with New Exhibitions
San Francisco Arts Commission
2011/02/23
Gray Area Launches Unique ‘Social Artwork’ Experiment To Support Digital Arts Community
Press Release
2011/01/27
The Edge of Progress Tour: Technological Art and Robotic Filmmakers in San Francisco
GOOD
2010/12/06
Programming for Poets and more at GAFFTA
KQED
2010/08/17
Review: SENSEable Cities: Exploring Urban Futures
Art Practical
2010/07/28
Making Sense of SENSEable Cities
IBM Smarter Planet
2010/06/21
Yahoo News Bytes: Grace Kim’s Soft-Circuit Class
Yahoo
2010/05/14
The Art of Data Visualization: Stamen Design Event Wrapup
Hacks/Hackers
2010/04/09
Gray Area blends tech, artistic creativity
San Francisco Chronicle
2010/03/09
Reid Hoffman, Thomas Goetz, Peter Hirshberg, Josette Melchor, and 11 Other Social Innovators to Speak at Sold-Out TEDxSilicon Valley
TEDx Silicon Valley
2009/12/12
How Community Arts Organizations Are Using Social Media
Mashable
2009/07/08
Mid-Market arts district may finally premiere
SF Business Times
2009/05/24
Arts district to transform lower Taylor Street
San Francisco Chronicle
2009/02/21
Art with Flight Patterns
CNET
2008/06/11
Tenderloin Breakthrough: Art Gallery Replaces Porno Shop
BeyondChron
2007/05/21
Fugue machine is how Bach would have made a sequencer
Create Digital Music
2015/10/09
Compose Like Bach (with Help from This App)
The Creators Project
2015/10/08
Gray Area Festival Delivers Its Message with Shigeto and Teebs
SF Weekly
2015/05/26
Arts And Tech Non-Profit Gray Area Is A Symbol For A Changing City
Techcrunch
2014/05/13
This Is What An Outdoor GIF Festival Looks Like
The Creators Project
2013/10/15
A New Way To Explore Some of San Francisco’s Hidden Public Spaces
Fast Company
2013/05/02
Hacking is Good for Democracy
Wired
2013/01/31
Hacking the Streetscape at the Urban Prototyping Festival
Wired
2012/10/24
Digitally Enhancing Public Spaces at the Urban Prototyping Makeathon
Wired
2012/10/06
The Next Generation of DIY Urbanism Projects: So Much Cooler Than Parklets
Atlantic Cities
2012/08/27
Twitter Blog: Our New Nest
2012/06/11
Art Hack Weekend: San Francisco 2012 — The Debut Of Partyline
The Creators Project
2012/05/11
The Street Hacker, Officially Embraced
Atlantic Cities
2012/05/07
San Francisco’s Tech, Entrepreneur, Design Talent and Tenderloin Community Come Together to Improve Lives of Residents During Collaboration Weekend
Press Release
2012/04/27
San Francisco Puts Brakes on an App for Transit
The New York Times
2012/04/21
Hacking for Good: Coders and Community Workers Unite in San Francisco
GOOD
2012/04/10
Burning Man Project, Black Rock Arts Foundation, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts & SF Mayor’s Office named as ArtPlace finalists
Press Release
2012/01/24
Mid Market, at Last, May Be on the Cusp of Revival
The New York Times
2011/10/07
SMART Muni app designed over a weekend
San Francisco Chronicle
2011/10/05
Visualizing The Traffic Of Rome, Paris, And Tel Aviv
Fast Company
2011/07/28
Art in Storefronts Returns to Central Market
San Francisco Arts Commission
2011/04/11
Big names eye real estate in blighted SF downtown
Associated Press
2011/02/19
Once Again, Revitalizing Market Street
Wall Street Journal
2011/01/06
A Wealth Of (Visual) Information
Forbes
2010/09/08
Momentum for a Revitalized Arts District
The New York Times
2010/07/29
Review of City Centered A Festival of Locative Media and Urban Community
Culture Debate
2010/11/25
Media Arts Festival Rewires Tenderloin
The Bay Citizen
2010/06/09
SF Designers Create New Art Form with Music, Images
ABC News
2010/05/02
Creative Spaces and Innovation
Design Mind Frog Design
2010/04/04
TED’s Next Challenge
Forbes
2009/12/14
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts Grand Opening (on KTVU 2 NEWS)
In Conversation with Josette Melchor
Women 2.0
2009/06/21
Arts groups create new music opportunities in the Tenderloin
SF Weekly
2009/03/16
Recombinant Media Labs Teams up with Gray Area for Downtown Arts Corridor
SF Weekly
2009/02/19
Gray Area Gallery 2.0
SF Bay Guardian
2008/04/21