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Gray Area’s 2026 Education Program offers workshops and intensive courses focused on creative agency through technology.

SPRING 2026 CLASSES

Join the next cohort of the Creative Code Intensive or enroll in one of our new classes on composing algorithmic music, training custom machine learning models for creative applications with artificial intelligence, and programming realtime visual media.

5/12/26
Breadboarding Modular Synthesizers Workshop
In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to design basic electronic oscillators with integrated... ENROLL TODAY
4/07/26
Event Synthesis: Algorithmic Music Composition
This workshop introduces musicians, programmers, and mathematically inclined artists to playful, math-driven approaches to composition,... ENROLL TODAY
4/06/26
Ambient Music Making with Ableton Live – 2026
This 2-day long hands-on workshop will look at the generative and aleatoric composition techniques from... ENROLL TODAY
3/21/26
The Analog Station: Electronics and Creative Coding Workshop
This workshop introduces micro-controllers, sensors, programming and hands-on soldering skills. Students will go home with... ENROLL TODAY
3/04/26
Programming Lo-Fi Hardware Video Synthesizers
In this four-session workshop, students will program their own portable digital video synthesizer — the... ENROLL TODAY
3/03/26
Creative Code Intensive
The Creative Code Intensive is a 12-week in-person course at Gray Area in San Francisco,... ENROLL TODAY
2/28/26
TouchDesigner 101 Intensive:
Creating Interactive Installations and Generative Art
An introductory class on TouchDesigner centered around building an interactive art installation and methods for... ENROLL TODAY

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Course Category: Ongoing

4/07/26
Event Synthesis: Algorithmic Music Composition
This workshop introduces musicians, programmers, and mathematically inclined artists to playful, math-driven approaches to composition,... ENROLL TODAY
1/25/25
TouchDesigner 101 Intensive:
Creating Interactive Installations and Generative Art
An introductory class on TouchDesigner centered around building an interactive art installation and methods for...
1/07/25
Andrew McLuhan Teaches Understanding Media Intensive: Part Two
Understanding Media Intensive: Part Two is a 13-part look at the second part of media...
4/15/24
Andrew McLuhan Teaches Understanding Media Intensive Part One: Tools for Engagement
Understanding Media Intensive Part One: Tools for Engagement is a 10-week long intensive look at...
5/10/22
Everything But The Art: The Business of Creativity
From portfolio development to grant writing and everything in between, this course helps creatives unpack...
10/26/21
Unity for Artists
Learn the basics of Unity in an engaging and approachable way and discover why game...

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Program Highlights

Creative Code Intensive

Our Creative Code Intensive is a newly redesigned 12-week in-person course in creative technology, offering a comprehensive introduction to foundational and advanced tools for programming digital media. In an interdisciplinary environment of artists, designers, engineers, and other creative professionals, participants will create studio projects and discuss work in group critiques, culminating in an exhibition of work in a public showcase.

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DWeb for Creators

Decentralized Web (DWeb) for Creators is an 8-week online course that empowers next-generation artists, archivists, gallerists, curators, and others with the knowledge and tools necessary for exploring the decentralized web. Participants engage with technologies like blockchain, examine case studies in curation, and apply decolonial approaches to world building as they envision the future of DWeb technologies. This course was developed with support for the Filecoin Foundation for the Distributed Web.

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Responsible Technology Design Intensive

Returning Fall 2025! In this interdisciplinary online intensive course, award-winning critical designer, researcher, and artist Caroline Sinders will lead students in understanding human rights-centered design. Throughout the course, students will ideate and design technology-mediated products with these concepts and principles in mind and examine the use of UX and design tools in activism.

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OUR COMMUNITY IMPACT

For the 12 weeks, I could learn a lot of skills of making immersive art. I’ve took some classes about coding ever in college, yet immersive is my first class that I really excited! Its kinda bootcamp for creative coding so sometimes it was not easy for me but it was really stimulus. Also, the instructor and classmate are very friendly and talented! Hope we can keep in touch and collaborate in future.

Nao Kondo

This immersive perfectly combined art and engineering and was easily one of the best learning experiences I’ve ever had. The teachers were patient and great at explaining concepts, technologies, and creative strategies – better than some of the professors I’ve had in undergrad. The critique and feedback I received in class helped push my work to another level. Take this course. It will only help you grow as an artist and as an engineer!

Ella Ordona

I’m a former creative code immersive scholarship recipient. The skills I’ve developed through Gray Area have helped me grow as an artist and make a living as a creative technologist. Thanks for the important work you do.

Peter Rigano

I am amazed by the work going on at Gray Area, and am glad I found it in the online COVID-19 world. There is nothing like it near me that I am aware of. I also enjoyed the book club event with Youngblood.

Meredith Sward

Gray Area is an essential cultural organization, consciously evolving both the arts and the world we find ourselves in.

Angela Melkisethian

Galvanize was amazing and my first time at Gray Area. I can’t wait to check out your other events.

Merrill Garbus

Community. Culture. Advocacy. Gratitude.

Marissa Underwood

Seeing the program outline of the Immersive was like seeing a wish list of things I hoped to learn, so when the opportunity presented itself to apply and enroll, I took it.

Kaii Tu