Gray Area Festival wraps with the run of the ISM Hexadome
(photo courtesy of Gray Area Festival) The fifth annual Gray Area Festival ran over the weekend in San Francisco, with performances, exhibitions, panels, and workshops focusing on the intersection of art and technology. Immersion is the main theme of this year's offerings, whether you find yourself surrounded by digital sights and sounds at Berlin's ISM Hexadome, or strapped into a dancing robotic exoskeleton as strobe lights pierce through the fog at Montreal's interactive Inferno experience by Louis-Philippe Demers & Bill Vorn. Gray Area has partnered with the Institute for Sound & Music Berlin to present ISM Hexadome, a 360-degree audiovisual [...]
Gray Area Festival merges art, music and technology from July 25-29
Photo: Mariah C. Tiffany Since 2014, the Gray Area Festival has brought art, music, design and technology together through its immersive conference and experiences at San Francisco's Grand Theater. 2019 marks the fifth year in a row and this time, the festival brings virtual and augmented reality plus immersive, sensory installations into the fold. The ISM Hexadome, brought from Berlin's Institute for Sound and Music, coupled with robotic exoskeleton performance Inferno cross-pollinates the analog with the digital for an experience, quite unseen before. The Gray Area Festival is multi-day event with opportunities to capture their events individually or through an [...]