./local_memory: soft systems @ Gray Area

Friday: Opening Reception, 6 PM to 10 PM
Saturday: Open Gallery Hours, 4 PM to 10 PM
Sunday: Open Gallery Hours, 12 PM to 6 PM

./local_memory: soft systems is a showcase of recently developed art and tech works by fifteen emerging Bay Area creators that explores how we perceive ourselves in a world inundated by digital systems. Over three nights, this exhibition will include ambitious pieces ranging from immersive, large-scale installations to intimate artifacts, presented across both digital and physical media.

./local_memory is a new, artist-led event series dedicated to surfacing new voices from the Bay Area. Initiated through an open call, this series creates a dedicated space at Gray Area in San Francisco for both emerging and established artists to convey urgent perspectives from the intersection of art and technology.

soft systems is the first exhibition presented by ./local_memory.

In soft systems, the artworks on view are connected by their transformations of digital and material processes into ritual environments for reflection and care. Moving away from optimization and spectacle, the exhibition centers memory, embodiment, and belief as foundational structures of the digital self. Across a range of concerns, many of the artists included are driven by collective experience, communal tradition, interspecies relationships, and slow culture. Together, they mine rich potential from sources of friction, slippage, and stickiness.

On Sunday, April 19, Gray Area is thrilled to host our friends at TIAT for an exhibition takeover! Join us from 6 – 8 PM for special evening gallery hours and a guided walkthrough of the exhibit. All weekend, TIAT members can visit the show for free. RSVP here.