@GrayAreaorg: Last night’s opening of Scaling Intelligence! @modal We're open today from 2 – 6 PM, followed by Inference as Instrumen…
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Modal and Gray Area present 'Scaling Intelligence,' a 5-day San Francisco exhibition featuring 11 newly commissioned artworks exploring AI and computing at scale, including a conversation on AI as a creative instrument.
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Last night’s opening of Scaling Intelligence! @modal We’re open today from 2 – 6 PM, followed by Inference as Instrument at 7 PM, a conversation exploring AI as a creative instrument. Explore the exhibition through Sunday, Nov 1. https://grayarea.org/exhibitions/scaling-intelligence-modal-commissions/…
Scaling Intelligence: Modal x Gray Area Commissions
Source: https://grayarea.org/exhibitions/scaling-intelligence-modal-commissions/
Scaling Intelligence
13 artists explore the capabilities of computing at scale with artificial intelligence through this landmark artwork commission and exhibition.
October 28 – November 1, 2026
GRAY AREA, 2665 MISSION STREET, SAN FRANCISCO
Plan Your Visit
Opening Night:SOLD OUT
Wednesday, October 28, 2026 7 – 10 PM
Be among the first to experienceScaling Intelligenceand explore 11 newly commissioned artist projects.
Gallery Open Hours:
Reserve ahead or drop by during gallery hours.
**Thursday, October 29:**2 – 6 PM **Friday, October 30:**2 – 8 PM **Saturday, October 31:**1 – 8 PM **Sunday, November 1:**1 – 8 PM
**Location:**Gray Area, 2665 Mission Street, San Francisco | Admission toScaling Intelligenceis free
Commissioned Creators
Cezar Mocan, Colin O’Donnell + Justine Sun Dela Cruz + Will Gardiner, Grayson Earle, Iana Chugunova, Ira Greenberg, Kristina Pulejkova, Miguel Novelo, Parag Mital, Rashed Haq, Sasha Sorokina, Spencer Chang
AboutScaling Intelligence
ModalandGray Areahave partnered to present 11 newly commissioned artworks exploring the creative possibilities of artificial intelligence and computing at scale. As aesthetic practices evolve, how can artists help us interpret new realities unlocked through scaling intelligence?
Generative media, enabled by models trained at internet-scale and proliferated by agentic systems, has opened an expansive toolkit for artists. At the same time, there is a prevailing narrative where AI inference equates to automation, homogenization, and slop. Against this notion, these artists harness the inherent creativity of inference to expand perspectives, create novel forms, and suggest new ways of sensing the world.
Each selected artist / culture maker / collective receives a cash stipend, ample materials budgets and Modal cloud computing credits to use as they see fit. Over the coming weeks, the artists will develop their proposed artworks with support from our engineers, developers, producers, curators, and exhibition designers. The commissions will culminate in a 5-day exhibition at Gray Area, October 28 – November 1, 2026.
Modal builds infrastructure for compute, letting you run code anywhere, instantly, at scale. Gray Area has spent two decades exploring art and emerging technology, asking what it means to create responsibly and critically through times of rapid change. Together, we’re thrilled to offer support for creators whose practices reveal what intentional and imaginative engagement with AI can look like in the context of evolving digital and visual culture.
Ira Greenberg,Protobyte Phylogeny, 2026. Installation view at the opening ofScaling Intelligence, Gray Area, San Francisco, October 28, 2026.
Grayson Earle,00100, 2026. Installation view at the opening ofScaling Intelligence.
Cezar Mocan,Searching For (Bradley Land), 2026. Installation view at the opening ofScaling Intelligence.
Parag Mital,Between Machine and Machine, 2026. Installation view at the opening ofScaling Intelligence.
Sasha Sorokina,IMPRINT, 2026. Installation view at the opening ofScaling Intelligence.
Rashed Haq,Activation Studies: I. Steering and II. Transference, 2026. Installation view at the opening ofScaling Intelligence.
Kristina Pulejkova,The Metabolic Choir, 2026 (detail). Opening ofScaling Intelligence.
Colin O’Donnell, Justine Sun Dela Cruz, and Will Gardiner,What is it like to be a river?, 2026 (detail). Opening ofScaling Intelligence.
Iana Chugunova,Tuning, 2026. Installation view at the opening ofScaling Intelligence.
Spencer Chang,Free Agents, 2026 (detail). Opening ofScaling Intelligence.
Miguel Novelo,(Φ ᆺ Φ) asya, 2026. Installation view at the opening ofScaling Intelligence.
Opening ofScaling Intelligence, Gray Area, San Francisco, October 28, 2026.
Exhibition Programming
Scaling IntelligenceOpening Night
Wednesday, October 28, 2026 7 – 10 PM
Opening night ofScaling Intelligenceis fully booked. Sign up for the waitlist to be notified if space becomes available.
Artist Panel:Inference as Instrument
Thursday, October 29, 2026 7 – 9 PM
Artists and technologists explore how inference-powered tools are reshaping creative expression across art, music, film, and design.
Commissioned Creators
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