Search Results

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Laura Fudge Voice Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs ImproVox #11 29 September 2025 ImproVox #08 14 April 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Nathan Z Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #178 16 September 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

Hypermedia Open Space returned to the Fourth Portal for its tenth edition, bringing together an electric mix of poets, musicians, and experimental performers. The atmosphere was buzzing, with a diverse crowd of regulars and first-time visitors creating a space that felt like a gathering of old friends, despite many meeting for the first time. Hypermedia DIY Open Space 10 < Back 10 September 2024 Hypermedia Open Space returned to the Fourth Portal for its tenth edition, bringing together an electric mix of poets, musicians, and experimental performers. The atmosphere was buzzing, with a diverse crowd of regulars and first-time visitors creating a space that felt like a gathering of old friends, despite many meeting for the first time. Previous Next Hypermedia Open Space 10 From making the promotion video during the early afternoon, it was clear that there was real energy flowing for the evening. Despite a sudden mad passing storm, the day remained relatively warm, especially after what had been a mostly cold and wet spring and summer. Just watch as Joe Cleary and Harriet Hammond of Hypermedia fill the video with energy. The Flow The night opened with an intense surge of sound from Borjenotborje, whose raw and electrifying performance set the tone for a roller-coaster of acts to follow. The momentum shifted with poet Fiona Spirals, who beautifully captured the essence of nature and the openness of the Thames mudflats, adding a serene and reflective dimension to the evening. Sophie Sirota took the audience into a meditative trance with a dramatic and intense soundscape, her viola resonating deeply through the space. A powerful lineup of poets, including Tamilore Orekan, Chris Porcas, Anthony Hart, Lee Campbell, Tony Thorley, and Zack Davies, delivered a diverse mix of spoken word and poetry, their voices weaving between the loud drums of Smell.iott and electronic textures from Bradley Ansley. Adding another layer of experimental storytelling, Akira (Ningrui), originally from China and now based in London, presented 3-minutes of her 20-minute short film blending generative art and visuals, pushing the boundaries of creative expression. The evening was a testament to the power of open creative spaces—where unexpected collaborations form, boundaries are tested, and community flourishes. Performers: Anthony Hart Bradley Ansley Borjenotborje Chris Porcas Fiona Spirals Joe Cleary Johnny G Lee Campbell Nick Poet Redeeming Features Smellilot Sophie Sirota Tamilore Orekan Tony Thorley Zack Davies Akira (Ningrui) Film of Changes, film by Ningrui Liu (Akira) Medium: Generative art / Systematic / Audio-visual art Shown to a great reception, Ningrui Liu aka Akira's film short investigates the aesthetics, philosophy and ethics of a traditional Chinese form of cleromancy - I Ching, or book of changes. By writing bespoke coding language and combining this tool with traditional media landscapes like film and creative arts, and related hybrid forms to subvert I Ching’s predominant uses. This generative design audio-visual work encourages the unforeseen in the filming process, which is breaking the f ilmmaking rules, and relinquishing control from the filmmaker's decision. The outcomes are based on the speculation that there is a hunch in the film industry that a systematic approach to cinematic notation is possible but has yet to be developed. As such, filmmakers could use a system of symbols to build a story, just like the staves and notations used by musicians. See Previous Events 🔗 All Hypermedia Open Spac e events 📸 Check out past performances, discussions, and the energy of previous events. Hypermedia Open Space events are free to attend, but donations are encouraged to help sustain the space. 📲 Find out more about Hypermedia: 🔗 Instagram: @hypermediaevents Visit Event Page MORE ON THIS EVENT BELOW Previous Next Event Documentation Previous Next

Soundings Part 2 | An evening of free-form experimental electronics. Soundings Part Two < Back 9 July 2023 Soundings Part 2 | An evening of free-form experimental electronics. Previous Next About this event Fourth Portal, along with sound artist in residence, Richard Sanderson, presented a n evening of exploration of live contemporary electronic music in the extraordinary and resonant space of St Andrew's Arts Centre in Gravesend - a former seamans' chapel on the waterfront. Featured set from Kamura Obscura, Plaid Matter and sourmilk Kamura Obscura https://www.kamuraobscura.com/ Kamura Obscura explores vocal improvisation with electronics, experimental composition with noise, viola, and lyrical yet surreal singing. One of Tokyo's most emotive and inventive singers, part of Japan’s 80s women’s liberation movement, Atsuko founded the first Japanese feminist rock band, Mizutama Shobodan, also known as Polkadot Fire Brigade. As agitprop feminist pioneers. Mizutama Shobodan toured Japan extensively and released two albums, the second of which, Manten ni Akai Hanabira (Red Petals in the Sky) was produced by Fred Frith. She also performed with Tenko at the International Women's Music Festival in Montreal in 1988 as the female vocal duo Honeymoons, which went on to tour the US. The Honeymoons also performed with seminal New York improvisers, Tom Cora and John Zorn. Their album "Laughing Myth", produced by Kenichi Takeda, was released in 1982. As a member of the improvisation group, "Uzo Muzo", she performed at Strasbourg's Musica Festival in 1987. Atsuko joined Kazuko Hohki’s UK-based Japanese pop group Frank Chickens in 1988 and toured Europe, the US, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, USSR and Japan. In 2002 she began working with Robert Storey and a new ensemble called I am A Kamura. Alongside this project, she performed with the Anglo-Japanese jazz progressive rock band, Setsubun Bean Unit at the Sonar Festival in Barcelona in 2007. Her latest project, Kamura Obscura, released the albums Melt, Socrates' Garden and Speleology. Kamura Obscura's latest album "4 AM Diary" came out in December 2021. Atsuko performed as a traditional Benshi narrator alongside a live score by Sinestro Home Video at the Flat Pack Film Festival in 2019. Kamura Obscura also supported the Nightingales' sold-out UK tour in the autumn of 2021. Plaid Matter Gravesend based Plaid Matter is the project of Matt Donald - modular electronics. A wondrous and immersive journey into sound. A 360 video of Matt Donnell's debut as Plaid Matter, followed by a very brief snippet of Kamura Obscura. "Sorry battery ran out' wrote Matt on YouTube Ollie - Second of Fourth Reduxx Sourmilk Medway musician Andrew Kesbey plays modular synths and analogue electronic equipment. He is also a former musician, DJ, promoter and co-owner of the record label, Ombrelle Concrète, which has released music from artists from several countries, including the UK, France, Portugal and Canada. sourmik was started by Andrew in 2019 as an outlet for the creative possibilities offered by the electronic hardware he was exploring. Initially, the focus of the project was on dark ambient drones, however Andrew has since expanded the melodic and rhythmic palette of sourmilk, particularly in the area of modular synthesis. Visit Event Page MORE ON THIS EVENT BELOW Previous Next Event Documentation Previous Next

< Back Socio-Technical Trust For Multi-Modal Hearing Assistive Technology The landscape of opportunity is rapidly changing for audio-visual (AV) hearing assistive technology. Developers must consider trust as a factor in developing new AV assistive hearing technologies, as trust may ultimately drive adoption of this technology within broader society. IEEE xPlore 2 Aug 2023 The landscape of opportunity is rapidly changing for audio-visual (AV) hearing assistive technology. While hearing assistive devices, such as hearing aids, have traditionally been developed for populations of deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) communities, the ubiquitous use of in-ear technology and recent advances in edge computing are reformulating what drives research and development in this domain. With that comes new challenges to consider from the perspective of multiple different stakeholders. In this position paper, we elaborate on seven key socio-technical challenges that may impede the adoption of trustworthy multi-modal hearing assistive technologies. We also draw upon a recent survey being piloted in the UK to examine perceptions of trust for audio systems in the context of human rights. We strongly encourage the research community to consider trust as a factor in developing new AV assistive hearing technologies, as trust may ultimately drive adoption of this technology within broader society. Published in: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10193586 For more: Audio, Cloud, Security, Design Previous Next

< Back Rewilding The Internet The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists. NOĒMA 16 Apr 2024 We Need To Rewild The Internet "Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word . They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle feedlot or battery chicken farms that madden the creatures trapped within. We all know this. We see it each time we reach for our phones. But what most people have missed is how this concentration reaches deep into the internet’s infrastructure — the pipes and protocols, cables and networks, search engines and browsers. These structures determine how we build and use the internet, now and in the future. [...] Up close, internet concentration seems too intricate to untangle; from far away, it seems too difficult to deal with. But what if we thought of the internet not as a doomsday “ hyperobject ,” but as a damaged and struggling ecosystem facing destruction? What if we looked at it not with helpless horror at the eldritch encroachment of its current controllers, but with compassion, constructiveness and hope? Technologists are great at incremental fixes, but to regenerate entire habitats we need to learn from ecologists who take a whole-systems view. Ecologists know something just as important, too; how to keep going when others first ignore you and then say it’s too late, how to mobilize and work collectively, and how to build pockets of diversity and resilience that will outlast them, creating possibilities for an abundant future they can imagine but never control. We don’t need to repair the internet’s infrastructure. We need to rewild it. [...] We need to stop thinking of internet infrastructure as too hard to fix. It’s the underlying system we use for nearly everything we do. The former prime minister of Sweden, Carl Bildt, and former Canadian deputy foreign minister, Gordon Smith wrote in 2016 that the internet was becoming “the infrastructure of all infrastructure.” It’s how we organize, connect and build knowledge, even — perhaps — planetary intelligence. Right now, it’s concentrated, fragile and utterly toxic." READ THE FULL ARTICLE https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/ For more: Protocols, Algorithm, Cloud, Decoupling, Design, Regulation Previous Next

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Tom Ward Clarinet / Alto Sax Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Boat-Ting Nov25 3 November 2025 Boat-Ting Jan23 9 January 2023 Boat-Ting Jan 2023 http://Website or social media email or phone number

Gravesend Innovation Showcase 2024 events, locations, talks, speakers and times. < Back Fair AI Futures? Start Time 10:30 Running Time 4 Hours Location 4. Julius Caesar Italian Event Type Participation About the Event Introduction Have your say on AI and what the future looks like for you and your community. Dr Alan Chamberlain (University of Nottingham) and Prof Paul Coulton (Lancaster University) will be hosting a public workshop to enable people to have their say about how they think that AI will have an impact on their/your lives in the near and distant future. Come and have a chat at the FAIR AI FUTURES HQ based at Julius Caesar Italian Restaurant on the High Street - It is an Open session. Have you ever wanted to have your say about the ways that AI might have an impact on you? You may have something that you want to discuss, maybe you want to know more about AI or just have an interest in the area. This is an opportunity for you to take part in a range of activities that will help us understand more about the ways that people think about AI in the future, and enable other people to know more about the issues, challenges and opportunities that people envisage when we think about AI. More on the event lead Dr Alan Chamberlain is a Principal Research Fellow in the Mixed Reality Lab and the Director of the interdisciplinary STAHR Collective at the University of Nottingham. He is a Visiting Professor at the Copenhagen Business School, the Principal Investigator on the EXIoT Project - Experimental IoT: Explorations in Sound Art and Technology (working with Professor Dave De Roure at the University of Oxford). He was a UKRI funded Researcher in Residence (Principal Investigator) at the Digital Catapult, London. He is the Creative Sector Theme Lead on the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous System Hub (a large £11,896,883 UKRI project) and a Co-Director of the AHRC nTAIL Network - Theatre, AI and Ludic Technologies. He has published numerous papers on many aspects of Human Computer Interaction and has successfully obtained funding for a wide range of research projects, working with international companies (BBC, BT & Microsoft), artists or world renown and leading experts across a variety of academic fields. He has been a Visiting Academic at the University of Oxford and Visiting Researcher at Swansea University. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the world leading Copenhagen Business School. He is the Chair of Future Research for EUSSET, an Editor for the Springer Nature Journal - Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. He has been part of the scientific program committee for many world-leading international conferences, including ACM CHI and CSCW. He is a member of the Audio Mostly Conference Series Steering Committee and Chaired the conference in 2019, bringing it to the University of Nottingham. From 2015 to 2018 he co-directed the Personal Data and Trust Network (Social and Cultural Innovation strand) - inc. EPSRC, Digital Catapult & Innovate UK. Professor Paul Coulton Professor of Speculative and Game Design Research Overview Paul is the Chair of Speculative and Game Design within Imagination and the School of Design. His practice uses research through design to create experiential futures which deliberately mix a present experience with a speculative future that are concretised by combining immersive scenarios with artefacts produced as design fictions or speculative designs. His work has helped establish a particular form of Speculative Design; Design Fiction, as a research method exploring futures for areas such as the Internet of Things and Artificial intelligence. His current research focusses on more-than-human design to expand design approaches so that they play greater consideration to human and non-human actants within the complex assemblages in which new product and services exist particularly in relation to sustainability and climate change. Event Information This event is Free All generations are encouraged to share their thoughts on AI No ticket required This event is ideal for anyone interested in how AI impacts our lives and communities, from beginners curious about AI to those who want to discuss its broader effects on society, the environment, and sustainability. It's an open, interactive session to learn, share, and even help shape future perspectives on AI. No technical background is required - just bring your thoughts and questions! ___ Even more information ___ Visit the FAIR AI FUTURES base at the Innovation Showcase Come and discuss Afro-Futures with Favour Borokini ! Talk to Victor Ngo and Dr Ayse Kucukyilmaz about Robotics, Play and Young People Hear about the ways that AI was taken on the road … in caravan! to get people’s opinions about AI, working with BBC R&D. Come and engage with AI generated images and play 'Guess the prompt'. Speak to the researcher and artist Rachel Jacobs and hear about the Future Machine ! Discuss whether AI will be good for the planet in relation to its environmental impact i.e. energy use, water for cooling and consumption of resources used to build the computers on which it will run. Do a Vox Pop with Dr Glenn McGarry https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/mixedrealitylab/people/glenn.mcgarry More on Michael Stead https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lica/people/michael-stead More on Violet Owen https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lica/people/violet-owen More on the Afro-Futures with Favour Borokini www.fourthportal.com Wicked Avatar Problems Gravesend Innovation Showcase 2024 events, locations, talks, speakers and times. Do you want to Fix the Future, and live in an InterNet Zero world? This is your chance, hear all about it with Dr Mike Stead and Violet Owen. www.fourthportal.com Green Yonder - Sustainable Design Futures Gravesend Innovation Showcase 2024 events, locations, talks, speakers and times. Hear about the ways that AI was taken on the road … in caravan! to get people’s opinions about AI, working with BBC R&D. www.salford.ac.uk Caravan from the Future to visit MediaCity campus Speak to the researcher and artist Rachel Jacobs and hear about the Future Machine ! www.whenthefuturecomes.net Future Machine - When The Future Comes The Future Machine is a witness. It is a large octagon on wheels made of ash, oak, steel, brass and copper, with a hand […] Even more... Talk to Victor Ngo and Dr Ayse Kucukyilmaz about Robotics, Play and Young People Come and engage with AI generated images and play 'Guess the prompt'. Discuss whether AI will be good for the planet in relation to its environmental impact i.e. energy use, water for cooling and consumption of resources used to build the computers on which it will run. Do a Vox Pop with Dr Glenn McGarry - tell him your thoughts on video! Previous Next

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Tomas Mejer Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs ImproVox #09 19 May 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Ivor Kallin Viola Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Boat-Ting Nov24 4 November 2024 Boat-Ting Oct25 6 October 2025 London Improvisers Orchestra #38 9 July 2025 London Improvisers Orchestra #37 8 March 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

Daniel Merrill performed his New Album with support from Rev. Matt Simpkins Nujumi with Reverend Matt Simpkins < Back 8 July 2023 Daniel Merrill performed his New Album with support from Rev. Matt Simpkins Previous Next This event has ended. Visit Event Page MORE ON THIS EVENT BELOW Previous Next Event Documentation Previous Next

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Benedict Taylor Viola Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Boat-Ting Sep18 3 September 2018 Boat-Ting Feb19 4 February 2019 Boat-Ting Jan23 9 January 2023 Boat-Ting Sep24 2 September 2024 Boat-Ting Nov24 4 November 2024 Boat-Ting Oct25 6 October 2025 ImproVox #09 19 May 2025 Load More Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number