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  • March 01, 2024  —  Gray Area Stays With the Trouble  —  Brooklyn Rail
  • January 18, 2024  —  Technology for social good: how digital artists are using their work to boost inclusivity  —  The Art Newspaper
  • October 03, 2023  —  Barry Threw, Executive Artistic Director of Gray Area  —  RadicalxChange podcast
  • March 29, 2023  —  Reclaiming the Technology of Surveillance and Deportation  —  KQED
  • March 24, 2023  —  Gray Area's New Show 'TECH-MECHS' Celebrates Media Artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's Sprawling, Immersive Body of Work  —  SFist
  • March 13, 2023  —  Preservation Project Uses 3D Printers to Fight ISIS's Destruction of Heritage Sites  —  Artforum
  • March 01, 2023  —  Neon Sign For Mission Street's Grand Theater Lights Up For The First Time In Decades  —  Hoodline
  • July 20, 2022  —  Can we 3D re-print the history we've destroyed?  —  Quartz
  • July 20, 2022  —  Programmers and artists are fighting ISIL's destruction with 3D printers  —  Quartz
  • January 20, 2022  —  Obscura Digital completes San Francisco's largest permanent video mapping installation  —  InPark Magazine
  • January 20, 2022  —  Frustrating Delays in City Funding Affect Over 200 SF Arts Nonprofits  —  KQED
  • September 15, 2021  —  Kris Bowers Visual Experience  —  On the Corner
  • June 30, 2021  —  HRF Announces the Art in Protest Residency Program  —  Human Rights Foundation
  • May 14, 2021  —  Gray Area Foundation: Barry Threw  —  smART Magazine
  • March 17, 2021  —  $3 Million to Go to S.F. Venues  —  San Francisco Chronicle
  • April 03, 2020  —  Gray Area's New Virtual Platform for Performances, Talks and Learning  —  KQED
  • April 02, 2020  —  Bassel Khartabil Fellowship Awarded to Dr. Tarek Loubani and Glia to Combat COVID-19  —  Mozilla Foundation
  • February 12, 2020  —  12 Artists Collaborate at Gray Area to Immerse You in the Environment  —  Mission Local
  • February 11, 2020  —  Duuuuude. What Happens if the Earth Gains Consciousness?  —  Wired
  • January 15, 2020  —  A New Wave of Interactive Art Is Taking Over San Francisco  —  The Bold Italic
  • August 02, 2019  —  The Future of Conceptual, Immersive Art Hasn't Quite Arrived  —  Hyperallergic
  • July 30, 2019  —  Strap on Your Exoskeleton and Dance, Dance, Dance  —  Wired
  • July 18, 2019  —  Robot Performance and Augmented Reality: Gray Area Fest Explores Art's New Frontiers  —  KQED
  • July 01, 2019  —  Review: Gray Area Festival’s inferno of hybrid arts creativity  —  48 Hills
  • July 20, 2018  —  Mission District’s Gray Area exists where art, technology intersect  —  San Francisco Chronicle
  • June 26, 2018  —  Gray Area Announces Lineup for Annual Art, Music and Tech Festival  —  KQED
  • February 22, 2018  —  Wikipedia goes 3D allowing users upload STLs for digital reference  —  3D Printing Industry
  • February 20, 2018  —  You can now upload 3D models to Wikimedia Commons  —  Wikimedia Foundation
  • February 07, 2018  —  Bassel Khartabil post  —  Creative Commons
  • October 05, 2017  —  Bassel Khartabil's Story Proves Online Activism Is Still Powerful  —  Wired
  • September 27, 2017  —  How One Syrian Fought to the Death for a Free Internet  —  Wired
  • August 17, 2017  —  Art Hack Day Eclipse Shines Light on Pairing Art and Tech  —  Silicon Prairie News
  • August 11, 2017  —  Wikimedians pack their bags and head to Montreal for 13th annual Wikimania  —  Wikimedia Foundation
  • August 11, 2017  —  In Memoriam Bassel Khartabil  —  Lorna M. Campbell Blog
  • August 11, 2017  —  Honoring Our Friend Bassel: Announcing the Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship  —  Creative Commons
  • August 06, 2017  —  'They Can't Stop Us' — World Mourns Execution of Palestinian-Syrian Activist Bassel Khartabil Safadi by the Assad Regime  —  Global Voices
  • August 04, 2017  —  Bassel lived for a peaceful and open Syria, so they killed him  —  Irish Independent
  • August 03, 2017  —  Bassel Khartabil: Missing Syrian-Palestinian 'Executed'  —  Malaysian Digest
  • August 03, 2017  —  Reconstruir la ciudad de Palmira gracias a Internet  —  ABC
  • August 03, 2017  —  Disappeared Palestinian-Syrian software developer reportedly executed  —  Electronic Intifada
  • August 03, 2017  —  Man who created 3D version of Palmyra before it was destroyed by ISIS killed by Assad regime  —  Evening Standard
  • August 02, 2017  —  On the death of Bassel Khartabil  —  MIT
  • August 02, 2017  —  Bassel Khartabil: Missing Syrian-Palestinian executed  —  Al Jazeera
  • August 02, 2017  —  L'exécution en 2015 du Syrien Bassel Khartabil confirmée  —  Reporters Without Borders
  • August 02, 2017  —  Syrian Internet activist executed  —  Haaretz
  • August 02, 2017  —  Bassel Khartabil executed October 2015  —  Inverse
  • August 02, 2017  —  Syrian activist Bassel Khartabil reportedly killed by Assad regime  —  Al Bawaba
  • August 02, 2017  —  Missing Syrian internet activist Bassel Khartabil executed in 2015, wife says  —  CNN
  • August 02, 2017  —  New Palmyra Project  —  HuffPost
  • August 01, 2017  —  Creative Commons announces death of Bassel Khartabil  —  The FADER
  • August 01, 2017  —  Statement on the death of CC friend and colleague Bassel Khartabil  —  Creative Commons
  • August 01, 2017  —  Bassel Khartabil, In Memoriam  —  Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • August 01, 2017  —  Why Culture Should Eclipse Technology In St Louis  —  Entrepreneur Quarterly
  • June 30, 2017  —  How Virtual Reality Could Change the Art World  —  JSTOR Daily
  • June 15, 2017  —  Against a Pile of Ashes  —  Victoria and Albert Museum
  • June 05, 2017  —  Artists and Writers Celebrate the Work of Missing Syrian Developer Bassel Safadi  —  Global Voices
  • May 02, 2017  —  How a 3D-printed piece of Palmyra landed in Toronto  —  CBC News
  • May 02, 2017  —  3D printed replica of destroyed Palmyra Tetrapylon showcased at Creative Commons Summit  —  3Ders.org
  • December 10, 2016  —  ISIS recaptures Palmyra: A fresh assault on heritage sites  —  Christian Science Monitor
  • August 08, 2016  —  Armas 3D desde Murcia contra las bombas del ISIS  —  El Mundo
  • July 07, 2016  —  When All Roads Led to Palmyra  —  History Today
  • July 01, 2016  —  Should museums be recreating the past?  —  Creative Review
  • June 30, 2016  —  Honouring Bassel Khartabil, Syrian digital activist  —  Index on Censorship
  • June 01, 2016  —  The Artist in Consultance: Welcome to the New Management  —  e-flux journal
  • May 27, 2016  —  Erasing Isis: how 3D technology now lets us copy and rebuild entire cities  —  The Guardian
  • April 26, 2016  —  Technology and Cultural Heritage Preservation  —  Display At Your Own Risk: An experimental exhibition of digital cultural heritage
  • April 22, 2016  —  Story of cities #28: how postwar Warsaw was rebuilt using 18th century paintings  —  The Guardian
  • April 20, 2016  —  The problem with rebuilding a Roman ruin destroyed by ISIS  —  Washington Post
  • April 19, 2016  —  What's the Value of Recreating the Palmyra Arch with Digital Technology?  —  Hyperallergic
  • April 18, 2016  —  Palmyra's Ancient Arch, Destroyed By ISIS, To Rise Again In London  —  NPR
  • April 01, 2016  —  NewPalmyra Crowdsources the Majestic History that ISIS in Syria Destroyed  —  Global Voices
  • March 31, 2016  —  Should we 3D print a new Palmyra?  —  The Conversation
  • March 01, 2016  —  The Heroic Effort to Digitally Reconstruct Lost Monuments  —  Smithsonian Magazine
  • January 20, 2016  —  Wikipedia: Information beats oppression  —  CNN
  • December 18, 2015  —  Bassel Khartabil: Disparition prison Syrie  —  France 24
  • December 11, 2015  —  Bassel Khartabil: fears for man who brought open internet to the Arab world  —  The Guardian
  • December 03, 2015  —  Global Voices Arabic coverage  —  Global Voices (Arabic)
  • December 01, 2015  —  Digital Mapping from Projecting Change Leaves Onlookers in Awe  —  LEDinside
  • November 24, 2015  —  Tech world takes on icon-smashing Islamic State with a virtual Palmyra  —  Christian Science Monitor
  • November 13, 2015  —  Internetaktivister genrejser Palmyra  —  Politiken
  • November 10, 2015  —  Help Fight ISIS by Rebuilding Palmyra in 3D  —  The Creators Project
  • November 10, 2015  —  MIT Media Lab Joins New Palmyra Project  —  Boston Magazine
  • November 02, 2015  —  Disappeared Syrian Activist's 3-D Models Could Save Palmyra  —  Voice of America
  • October 28, 2015  —  Archaeologists armed with cheap 3D cameras hope to rebuild ancient sites razed by Islamic State  —  News.com.au
  • October 23, 2015  —  An Open-Source Project to Rebuild Palmyra  —  Architect Magazine
  • October 23, 2015  —  Free 3D Printable of the Week: #NewPalmyra  —  3D Printing Industry
  • October 22, 2015  —  MIT Media Lab Research Position for Bassel Khartabil  —  joi.ito.com
  • October 21, 2015  —  A Jailed Activist's 3-D Models Could Save Syria's History From ISIS  —  Wired
  • October 09, 2015  —  Bassel Khartabil, prisonnier syrien d'Internet  —  Slate France
  • June 02, 2015  —  An Arts and Tech Community Finds a New Home in San Francisco  —  Vice
  • March 04, 2015  —  The Sphere at the Dubai Mall Launches  —  Time Out Dubai
  • March 03, 2015  —  Take a city tour of Dubai inside a projection theatre ball  —  The National
  • September 20, 2014  —  Ahead of Summit, UN Headquarters Complex Becomes Canvas for Inspiring Action  —  UNEP
  • March 19, 2014  —  Re-engineering: Venture Culture | Platforms for Art+Tech  —  Art Practical
  • December 19, 2013  —  Art, Tech, and Gentrification in San Francisco  —  Hyperallergic
  • November 08, 2013  —  Technology and the Evolution of Live Performance  —  Wired
  • November 05, 2013  —  Re-Engineering: Art and Tech in the Bay Area Part One  —  Art Practical
  • April 29, 2013  —  Obscura Digital's Massive Projection Series Turns San Francisco's Exploratorium Into A Technicolor Canvas  —  Vice
  • April 12, 2013  —  Exploratorium Reborn Inside San Francisco's New Shrine to Innovation  —  Gizmodo
  • April 09, 2013  —  Obscura Digital: Emergence at the Exploratorium  —  Motionographer
  • March 21, 2012  —  Creators Project festival a successful experiment at Fort Mason  —  Golden Gate Xpress
  • January 16, 2012  —  UAE 40th National Day  —  Digital Studio Middle East
  • January 04, 2012  —  Majestic Islamic Architecture Transformed By Colossal Projection Mapping Feat  —  The Creators Project
  • December 13, 2011  —  Festival Reviews: Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival  —  Array: Journal of the The International Computer Music Association
  • December 13, 2011  —  Stunning Projection Mapping on the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque  —  The Atlantic
  • October 19, 2011  —  Sacramento Airport Art Scores a Hit  —  Square Cylinder
  • October 19, 2011  —  Active Ecosystem (SMF)  —  Sacramento Art Commission
  • June 21, 2011  —  Programmers urged to code with their tootsies  —  The Register
  • June 21, 2011  —  SoftStep KeyWorx controls your PC with your feet, turns browsing into DDR  —  Engadget
  • June 21, 2011  —  At Last: Now You Can Control Your Computer With Your Feet  —  Forbes
  • June 21, 2011  —  KMI Launches Computer Keypad - For Your Feet  —  PC Mag
  • June 21, 2011  —  SoftStep KeyWorx controller: Hands-free computing  —  CNet
  • May 13, 2011  —  Coca-Cola Celebrates 125 Years With Epic Projection Mapping Campaign  —  Adweek
  • May 12, 2011  —  ImmersiveTech Summit 2010 – ImmersiveTech Immy Awards  —  imtech
  • May 10, 2011  —  Coca-Cola Co. Celebrates 125th Anniversary by Illuminating Headquarters Building With Digital Projection  —  Digital Signage Expo
  • May 07, 2011  —  The Coca-Cola Company Illuminates Headquarters Building as “Thank You” for 125th Anniversary  —  Seeking Alpha
  • May 06, 2011  —  Big Thank You Card Lights Up Coke Building on 125th Anniversary  —  My Fox Atlanta
  • March 01, 2010  —  Communication Arts Annual 16 - Hard Rock Cafe RockWall  —  Communication Arts
  • March 01, 2010  —  The Global Lives Project - World Premiere Opening Night  —  The Rosetta Project
  • February 25, 2010  —  YBCA Premieres Global Lives Project  —  Social Earth
  • February 25, 2010  —  Everyday People: 'Global Lives' Opens At YBCA  —  7x7
  • February 24, 2010  —  Global Lives Project video installation  —  Boing Boing
  • October 30, 2009  —  Acclair Art Valuation Service: a fairer way to value art  —  Cluster
  • September 23, 2009  —  Hard Rock Cafe Las Vegas Showcases New Tech  —  Hard Rock News
  • September 09, 2009  —  Hard Rock Cafe Vegas Strip gets ginormous interactive Rock Wall  —  Engadget
  • September 08, 2009  —  Amazing 18-Foot Wide Super-HD Multi-User Multitouch Display  —  Gizmodo
  • March 23, 2009  —  An Interview with Keith McMillen  —  Cycling '74
  • February 19, 2009  —  Recombinant Media Labs Teams up with Gray Area for Downtown Arts Corridor  —  SF Weekly
  • February 10, 2009  —  Top 10 Products from Winter NAMM 2009  —  Mix Online
  • November 06, 2008  —  Keith McMillen Instruments K-Bow: Get A F*%@&#g Bluetooth For Your Violin Bow, Man  —  Gearwire
  • September 20, 2008  —  UCSD's StarCAVE Is a Real 3D Super-High-Def Danger Room  —  Gizmodo
  • July 31, 2008  —  Not Your Grandfather’s Big Bands  —  Eugene Weekly
  • February 26, 2008  —  Alumni Profile: Creating the Beat of a Different Drummer  —  Berklee College of Music
  • October 07, 2007  —  Grand Text Auto Exhibit Opens  —  Kotaku
  • October 04, 2007  —  Grand Opening GTxA the Show  —  Grand Text Auto
  • August 14, 2007  —  Brilliance in the Air  —  SF Classical Voice
  • July 01, 2007  —  Plunging Into the Vortex  —  Mix
  • November 07, 2006  —  Keith McMillen unveils string instrument interfaces  —  MacNN
  • October 22, 2006  —  360-degree art for all senses  —  SF Gate
  • October 01, 2006  —  Recombinant Media Labs  —  Mix Online
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