Deliria 2, Cyberpunks Mutants & Mondoids
A Mondo 2000 Techno-Counterculture Gathering

Thursday 8/13 — Daytime

3:30 – 6:30 PM

Featuring Marc Franklin, Annalee Newitz, Shira Chess, R.U. Sirius, and Bart Nagel, with photography, film, conversation, and a reading from the forthcoming Mondo 2000 book.

https://grayarea.org/event/deliria-2-cyberpunks-mutants-mondoids/
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Deliria 2, Cyberpunks Mutants & Mondoids
A Mondo 2000 Techno-Counterculture Gathering

Thursday 8/13 — Evening

7:30 – 11:45 PM

Featuring Your Leader, Phriendz, Digital Dead, Virtual Pretenderers, Cyrnai, Guillermo Gómez-Peña / La Pocha Nostra, and John Law, with live music, performance, and more.

https://grayarea.org/event/deliria-2-cyberpunks-mutants-mondoids/
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Recombinant Media Labs and Gray Area present
Matmos with Dick Slessig Combo

Visionary electronic duo Matmos returns to Gray Area, transforming everyday sounds into wildly inventive, immersive sonic landscapes.

https://grayarea.org/event/matmos-with-dick-slessig-combo/
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Streaming and in-person:Click for stream  
This month, we turn to Danielle Carr's essay arguing that cognitivism's triumph over behaviorism as psychology's dominant theory of mind was driven by "cognitive liberalism," a strand of early Cold War political philosophy that placed human freedom in the spontaneous capacities of cognition and language. Along the way, the piece traces how Hannah Arendt's account of totalitarianism framed it as a form of behaviorist control, linking Cold War anti-behaviorism to earlier Progressive-era critiques of industrial labor and to attacks on behaviorism circulating at the time.
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Reading:
Carr, D. J. Z. (2020). ‘Ghastly marionettes’ and the political metaphysics of cognitive liberalism: Anti-behaviourism, language, and the origins of totalitarianism. History of the Human Sciences, 33(1), 147-174.

Time: 12–2 PM

In person: 2665 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94110
+ online w/RSVP

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👃Gray Area is opening up the Cybersentics (little) Library, a growing, hands-on collection of books, gadgets, and oddities built by and for our community, and this launch is your chance to explore it, shape it, and take part in what it becomes.

At the event, you can:
• Browse the collection — books, tech, and artifacts on the shelves for you to page through and poke at
• Learn what the library's for — the mission behind it and how it fits into Gray Area's broader work
• Meet the community — other members, contributors, and fellow nerds-in-good-standing
• Get the scoop on Book Club — a recurring series where we actually read and discuss what's on the shelves
• Pitch an item — got a book, zine, or gadget that belongs here? Tell us why
• Swap something — bring a book or piece of electronics (up to $100 value) to trade with other attendees
. . .and more!

📆 August 20th, 6-8 pm
📍 2665 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94110
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Phytomorphic Topographies is a work which investigates fragile ecosystems of the Latvian wilderness through three-dimensional visual representations and near-field audio recordings. Gathered from forests, bogs and nature reserves, and guided by botanist Liga Pentjusa (University of Riga), the artists performed botanical surveys using photogrammetry and field recording as a means to document these protected environments.

By engaging with these places on multiple audio / video scales in order to provide an alternative perspective of human and non-human relationships and interconnectedness. Through a custom designed audio-visual instrument, we are able to traverse both the sonic and visual landscape in real-time to create a third space which serves as a metaphor for a systemic shift in our relationship to the environment - rather than impose a composition, the landscape itself becomes the instrument.

Phytomorphic Topologies focuses on natural environments by exploring their capacity as a compositional tool in order to foster novel views and reflections rather than simple representations. We both share a concern for our earth’s future, and desire to create a work that brings attention and consideration to both the visible and often overlooked life structures around us.

https://grayarea.org/event/pierce-warnecke-and-matthew-biederman-phytomorphic-topologies/
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25TH ANNIVERSARY SFEMF GALA

Join us in celebrating 25 years of the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival at our 25th Anniversary Gala—an unforgettable evening honoring SFEMF's legacy, celebrating the artists and community that have shaped the past 25 years, and supporting the next chapter.

The night features performances by electronic music pioneer and the "king of sampling" Carl Stone, the boundary-pushing Only Now (aka Kush Arora), Luciano Chessa and Wobbly (aka Jon Leidecker) performing a live realization of Desert Ambulance by Ramón Sender Barayón, plus a radio-inspired genre-spanning DJ set from Sly Ida.

While you're here, raise a glass with our one-night-only signature cocktails, the Circuit Bender or the non-alcoholic Circuit Breaker, created especially for this milestone celebration.

https://www.sfemf.org/sfemf2026gala
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