Gray Area x TIAT: Processing Community Day: San Francisco

Processing Community Day San Francisco Saturday, October 3, 2026 1 – 6 PM Lighting Talks: 4 – 5:30 PM Children under the age of 16 should be supervised by a parent Talks will be seated in the theater. Workshop attendees should bring their own laptops. Workshops will take place in the classroom and are not ADA accessible. View our FAQ page for more info, or contact us at [email protected] with any accommodation requests. Gray Area and TIAT are teaming up for Processing Community Day San Francisco. On October 3, 2026, the Grand Theater will come alive with an afternoon of talks and workshops from 1 – 6 PM. We’re celebrating 25 years of Processing, the creative coding platform that has shaped generations of artists, designers, educators, and programmers around the world. Come discover what the community is building today with Processing and p5.js, and where creative coding is heading next. Lightning talks will feature Fabian Fabro, Connie Ye, Aung Nyein Chan (Enchax), Tiantian Xu, Carey J. Flack, and Nidhi Sinha. More to be announced soon! Learn about libprocessing, the new experimental WebGPU renderer for Processing. Suitable for intermediate to advanced Processing users, this workshop explores new capabilities including video, particle systems, and PBR rendering using Python. Experience Level: Intermediate–Advanced Recommended: Laptop with a discrete GPU or Apple M-series processor About the Instructor: Charlotte McElwain (she/her) is an artist and creative technologist based in Oakland, working primarily in the Rust programming language with a focus on open source creative coding and 3D graphics tools. She first learned to code through Processing in 2009. You can find some of her work on her Website. or on Instagram. Learn the basics of variable typography and how to animate it on the web with p5.js. We’ll look at how variable fonts can shift across weights, widths, and forms, explore their connections to concrete poetry and kinetic type, and use p5.js to create responsive, dynamic letterforms. Experience Level: All levels; some familiarity with p5.js, Processing, or JavaScript is helpful Please Bring: A computer and something to draw on About the Instructor: Ivan Zhao is a writer, designer, and artist based in San Francisco. He works primarily with nonlinear narratives, forms, and mechanics that reckon with digital, diasporic, and queer identity. In the future, he hopes to grow infinite hands to pet infinite dogs. Fabian Fabro is a Filipino-American creative coder, composer, Rondalla & Kulintang musician. From the island of Oahu, Hawai'i, now in the Bay Area. He finds ways to combine his passion with audio and technology. His works mainly consist of music and audio, but also as a Filipino, he explores to express his culture to preserve, curate, and create. Connie Ye is a San Francisco-based artist and engineer who makes small games and small art. A member of the tech-art collective Algorat, she co-created ‘The Ratchelor,’ a dating game trilogy that has engaged over a million players since 2021. Connie also contributes actively to the p5.js editor open source maintenance, as a pr05 grant mentor in 2024 and 2025 and most recently as a Developer in Residence for stewarding the CodeMirror version migration. Aung Nyein Chan is a Burmese creative technologist making San Francisco his second home. Working as Enchax, a name born from his own when spoken quickly in Burmese, he creates art from longing and possibility. Growing up in Myanmar, where possibilities felt painfully limited, the internet became his escape. Anime, superheroes, and video games showed him worlds where transformation was possible. Today, he brings that longing to augmented reality, mixed reality, creative coding, and interactive installations exploring migration, identity, and memory. Product designer by day. Artist by night. Exploring different art mediums, 100 days at a time. Carey J. Flack is a creative technologist and 7th generation Oklahoman based in Oakland, California. Her work investigates Black Southern ecologies and place-making, embodied memory, and cultural technologies — expressed through archival research, courses, slow craft, art, and ml/code. Through @pressed.roots, Carey documents Black land histories across the American South. She also co-directs MEMORY PATTERN, a quilting course that explores and connects global Black textile traditions with the digital, for 80+ participants across the US/Canada. Her place-based work includes Mapping Black Oklahoma and the Clearview Historical Mapping project, two community GIS projects that highlight Black and Afro-Indigenous Memory and archive one of Oklahoma’s 13 remaining Black towns. Her first tiny land-based ML model, “Sketches From the Field,” explores the relationship between humans, machines, and nature. Carey has taught at the School for Poetic Computation and was featured in Seventeen Magazine as a “Power Girl” for her technology work. She’s given talks at