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All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Jordan Muscatello Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #4 19 July 2016 SKRONK #5 9 August 2016 SKRONK #6 23 August 2016 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

For The Sick And Poor MA Fine Art students from Central Saint Martins took over Fourth Portal for a bold and immersive group exhibition. Featuring performance, sculpture, painting, sound, and video, the show brought together eight emerging artists exploring themes of identity, perception, and materiality. CSM MA Fine Art Takeover < Back 7 March 2024 For The Sick And Poor MA Fine Art students from Central Saint Martins took over Fourth Portal for a bold and immersive group exhibition. Featuring performance, sculpture, painting, sound, and video, the show brought together eight emerging artists exploring themes of identity, perception, and materiality. Previous Next For The Sick And Poor MA Fine Art students from Central Saint Martins took over Fourth Portal for a compelling group exhibition, showcasing performance, sculpture, painting, sound, and video. Featuring eight emerging artists, the exhibition explored themes of identity, perception, materiality, and storytelling, offering an exciting glimpse into the future of contemporary art. Artists Georgia May Broadley (@mayartist_) – Explores camouflage, survival, and self-presentation, using vibrant colours to contrast deeper psychological and societal meanings. Hannah Absalom (@hkaart) – Multidisciplinary artist blending religious iconography, horror, and queerness in surreal visual narratives. Meejaah (@meejaah) – Investigates Derealisation-Depersonalisation Disorder (DPRD) through mythologised, dreamlike cinematic worlds in photography and film. Joshua Obichere (@j_n_artcsm) – Explores Black identity, faith, and cultural heritage, incorporating textiles and performance into his practice. Sandra Zanetti (@sandrazanetti_) – Deconstructs human experience, symbols, and world-building, merging global iconographies with personal narratives. Hollie Palmer (@holl_palmer) – Uses tufted sculptures and textiles to examine personal memories, emotional landscapes, and connections to place. Em Bristow (@_dood1es) – A transdisciplinary artist, writer, and musician, exploring identity, self-expression, and personal storytelling. Harriet Hammond (@h.rriet.) – Draws from 1970s food art, nostalgia, and childhood influences to explore fantasy, consumption, and play. Bodie Stanley (@bodie.stanley) – A multidisciplinary artist working with sound, print, sculpture, and installation, exploring urban experience, social engagement, and material interaction. Curated by Harriet Hammond, MAFA (First Class Hons.) Georgia May Broadley (@mayartist_) Georgia Bristow’s work explores themes of camouflage and survival, using vibrant colours to contrast with deeper psychological and societal meanings. Her art serves as a metaphor for personal and collective pressures, particularly the curated self-presentation shaped by social media. This reflects her own experiences with imposter syndrome and the concept of constructing a personal camouflage. Through her work, she highlights the tension between inviting appearances and hidden truths, encouraging people to embrace authenticity despite societal expectations. Hannah Kate Absalom (@hkaart) Hannah Kate Absalom is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the intersections of religious iconography, horror, and queerness. She re-contextualizes biblical imagery and symbolism, blending sacred, medieval, and science fiction elements to present contemporary expressions of dystopia and apocalypse. Absalom employs various mediums, including oil painting, printmaking, and moving-image work, often drawing inspiration from Renaissance painting, surrealist film, and the installation-like qualities of religious spaces. She now holds a Master's degree in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, graduating with first-class honors in 2024, and was awarded the Cass Art Graduate Prize. Meejaah (@meejaah) Meejaah’s work explores the intersection of personal experience, mythology, and perception , drawing from their lived experience with Derealisation-Depersonalisation Disorder (DPRD). Rather than viewing it through a clinical lens, Meejaah transforms this altered state of reality into a dreamlike, cinematic world, mythologising the mundane to create new narratives. Their character-based work personifies the condition - an "animalified" embodiment of the detachment and uncanniness that comes with DPRD. Through photography, film, and visual storytelling, Meejaah navigates the tension between knowing the world is real and feeling otherwise, highlighting how the brain’s coping mechanisms can both shield and distort our perception of reality. Joshua Obichere (@j_n_artcsm) Joshua Obichere is a multidisciplinary artist and art educator based in London. He now holds an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins (UAL) and a Master's in Education from the University of Cambridge, focusing on Social Justice and the Curriculum. Joshua is the founder of Skin Deep Education, an initiative aimed at promoting inclusivity and cultural diversity in education. His artistic practice delves into themes of the Black male body, African wax prints, and faith, critically exploring the intersections of identity and culture. ualshowcase.arts.ac.uk Sandra Zanetti (@sandrazanetti_) Sandra Zanetti is an internationally exhibiting multidisciplinary artist whose performances and installations unveil unconscious fears and desires, drawing inspiration from both local and global sources. Her work deconstructs the complexities of human experience, often weaving together physical compositions that utilise a unique visual language informed by various world cultures, iconographies, and socioeconomic theories. Zanetti has deep interests in language, embodiment, symbols, world-building, and the cyclicality of time concerning progression, innovation, and regression. sandrazanetti.com art-gab.blubrry.net Hollie Palmer (@holl_palmer) Hollie Palmer is a London-based artist who explores the interplay between personal memories, emotional bonds with landscapes, and the events that tether individuals to specific places. Her work often involves creating tufted sculptures and textiles that reflect these themes. Palmer's creations have been featured in venues such as The Shop Tremenheere, and she has crafted pieces in response to exhibitions like the Mike Kelley exhibition at Tate Modern. ualshowcase.arts.ac.uk instagram.com Em Bristow (@_dood1es) Em Bristow, also known as Em Doodles, is a 24-year-old transgender artist, writer, and musician based in East London. Their work spans various mediums, and they have collaborated with producer and musician Charles Cave. Em's projects often explore themes of identity and personal experience. All pieces and fragments of Doodles' practice are enmeshed through the regurgitating of memories and language into sculptural, sonic and linguistic modes of creating. The work is fed by the wider context of mortuary practice, biopolitics, and ecology. With particular interest in the role of the corpse in conjunction with the trans body. Doodles' posits the systemically stifled power of bodies that are in a state of transition. Doodles' work engages with the ways all bodies exist in a state of flux and in exchange with linguistic systems of power. The works explore love and loss through abject, hybrid corpse sculptures, the honoring of incomplete bodies, and cyclical ideas. Repetition is deployed within Doodles' writing and visual motifs to situate the corp se in a new, boundless realm that allows for its leakage, mess and ambivalence. ualshowcase.arts.ac.uk Harriet Hammond (@h.rriet.) Born in 2000, Harriet Hammond is an artist from Gravesend who recently completed her Master of Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins in London with First Class Honours and curated this exhibition. Her work has been featured in several exhibitions, and she draws inspiration from 1970s food art, toys, theatre, children's TV shows, and family dynamics to explore themes of fantasy, nostalgia, and consumption. ualshowcase.arts.ac.uk Fourth Portal Harriets' installation shows a vibrant table of clay sculptures, featuring a feast of fake food and two life-size human-animal characters seated at the table. Drawing inspiration from 70s food art, toys, theatre, children's TV shows, and family dynamics, the piece explores themes of fantasy, nostalgia, consumption and class. An over-stimulation of color and texture dominates the piece, with bright paints and shiny resin giving a wet, grotesque look. Each element is hand sculpted and detailed with a cocktail stick, creating an intricate and colourful world. Final Show The short, two man performance with Harriet Hammond and Georgia May Broadley (above), shows an angry chef with crab claw hands, "cooking" fake food for the fake characters at the table. Accompanying is an anxious waitress, whose struggle highlights themes of anxiety and people-pleasing within the chaotic world of hospitality. The performance transforms the installation into a fever dream-like experience, where costumed characters navigate the surreal dining scenario. By presenting the food sculptures in both conventional and unconventional manners, the performance amplifies the overstimulation with movement and sound, creating a dynamic experience that engages viewers in a fantastical, yet relatable narrative. Bodie Stanley ( @bodie.stanley ) Bodie Stanley is a London-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice encompasses sound, print, painting, sculpture, and installation. Born in 1988 in Atherton, Queensland, Australia, Stanley moved to Hackney, London, at the age of five and has spent the majority of their life in the city. Their work is deeply rooted in social engagement, often exploring themes of urban experience and the interplay between individuals and their environments. Stanley's creative process integrates both digital manipulation and manual handcrafting techniques, reflecting a commitment to materiality and sensory engagement. Notable projects include "Designated Noise Barricade," a sound installation that invites viewers to interact with structures reminiscent of urban barriers, transforming them into playful instruments. Stanley holds a Master of Arts in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and has exhibited in various venues, contributing to London's contemporary art scene. bodiestanley.co.uk ualshowcase.arts.ac.uk The opening event has ended | Exhibition ran until 13 March 2024. 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All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Matylda Geber Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #3 7 May 2016 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

< Back What Is The Fediverse The Fediverse is the buzziest new thing in social networking is a big deal. It’s also very confusing. And it’s not actually new. It’s an interconnected social platform ecosystem based on an open protocol called ActivityPub, which allows sharing of content, data, and follower graph between networks. The Verge 21 Apr 2024 "The fediverse is as if you took X, TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook and made them all interoperable so you could post anything from anywhere, and all your followers would be guaranteed to see it. And if you wanted to leave one platform for another, you could bring all your content, all your followers, all your everything with you. Oh, so it’s a new social network! Why didn’t you just say that? It’s actually lots of new social networks ! A bunch in the fediverse already exist, and lots more are coming. But the interconnection is the thing: instead of having all your Facebook stuff on Facebook and all your X stuff on X, the fediverse allows them to interoperate. That’s really the big shift here." [Follow link to read more } About the author By David Pierce , editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. https://www.theverge.com/24063290/fediverse-explained-activitypub-social-media-open-protocol For more: Linked Data, Standards, Algorithm, Cloud, Protocols, AI, Meta Tags, Infrastructure, Design, Security Previous Next

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Robert Trent 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

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Alain Man Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #4 19 July 2016 SKRONK #5 9 August 2016 SKRONK #6 23 August 2016 SKRONK #1 31 May 2016 SKRONK #2 21 June 2016 SKRONK #3 7 May 2016 Load More Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

More than 450 visitors queued on Saturday night of the Gravesham Light Festival for Funki Porcini’s Laserium. The 10-minute taster filled the darkened Fourth Portal with 800 synchronised lasers, pulsating to an original score. Reviews ranged from exceptionally calming to imagining the universe forming. Funki Porcini Laserium Saturday < Back 27 January 2024 More than 450 visitors queued on Saturday night of the Gravesham Light Festival for Funki Porcini’s Laserium. The 10-minute taster filled the darkened Fourth Portal with 800 synchronised lasers, pulsating to an original score. Reviews ranged from exceptionally calming to imagining the universe forming. Previous Next Following the success of Friday night’s Laserium, even larger crowds gathered on Saturday at the Fourth Portal for another immersive spectacle. More than 450 visitors queued to experience the 10-minute Laserium taster, with reviews ranging from exceptionally calming to imagining the universe forming. The Laserium, an 800-laser rig built by composer, musician, and artist James Braddell (aka Funki Porcini), transformed the darkened church into a mesmerising display. Beams of light danced off mirrors and glass, synchronised to Funki Porcini’s surreal soundscapes, creating a hypnotic and deeply immersive experience. The free event welcomed visitors of all ages, from the youngest children to the eldest attendees. Responses varied, with younger audiences describing the performance as soothing and meditative, while older visitors found it intense and absorbing. The full one-hour immersive show followed on Sunday, 28 January 2024. Earlier that afternoon, a talk was held with Laserium collaborators Andy Payne and Nicky Cure, who also designed the Crawley Bots robots and contributed to the laser rig’s construction. Read more about the talk here . Gravesham Light Festival Continues The Gravesham Light Festival continued on Saturday, 27 January 2024, with expanded capacity at Fourth Portal Lab to accommodate even more visitors. Nearby, LV21 Lightship hosted a light installation and shadow show, adding to the festival’s diverse visual experiences. Who is Funki Porcini? James Braddell, aka Funki Porcini, is a British electronic music provocateur, blending surreal jazz, found noise, synthetic textures, and dreamlike logic. A defining artist of Ninja Tune’s early years, his name plays on Funghi Porcini, the Italian term for the Boletus edulis mushroom, commonly known as penny bun. Braddell spent ten years in Italy composing for film and television before returning to England in 1994, signing with Ninja Tune, and setting up his own studio, The Uterus Goldmine. Find out more about Funki Porcini on Ninja Tune. The Lasers and the Rig For insights into the lasers and the creative process behind this spectacular rig, visit Funki’s Bandcamp. Visit Event Page MORE ON THIS EVENT BELOW Previous Next Event Documentation Previous Next

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Luisa Tucciariello Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #4 19 July 2016 SKRONK #5 9 August 2016 SKRONK #2 21 June 2016 SKRONK #3 7 May 2016 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Eamon Foreman Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #6 23 August 2016 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Saulius Bendoraitis Electronics Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs ImproVox #09 19 May 2025 ImproVox #04 28 October 2024 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

< Back The UKRI funded Responsible AI UK (RAI UK) Announces First Round Impact Acceleration Projects Partners: Universities of Oxford (lead), Nottingham and Warwick, Fourth Portal, Albino Mosquito, Computational Foundry, Swansea University), The National Archives, UK, EvoMUSART 24, Horizon Digital Economy Research UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) Hub. University of Nottingham 27 Nov 2023 Academics from the University of Nottingham have received funding to research how to ensure Artificial Intelligence (AI) is safe to use, in a new project alongside the Universities of Oxford and Warwick. The UKRI funded Responsible AI UK (RAI UK) has announced its first round of Impact Acceleration projects, investing £1.8M to ensure AI is safe, and that it will be responsible to the needs of society, addressing topics such as Generative AI in teaching and learning. Dr Alan Chamberlain, in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, said: “Starting to examine how people understand and apply responsible AI in their work is important. It will help us to approach the design of responsible systems together. Involving the public is fundamental, its vitally important to enable people to participate and have input into research. https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/responsible-ai-funding For more: Algorithm, AI, Security, Design Previous Next

The Versatility of Paper call out took place in July 2023 and generated a fantastic response from artists across Gravesham and the country, leading to a papermaking workshop and a printed newspaper. Versatility of Paper Summer < Back 1 July 2023 The Versatility of Paper call out took place in July 2023 and generated a fantastic response from artists across Gravesham and the country, leading to a papermaking workshop and a printed newspaper. Previous Next About the event The Versatility of Paper drew on the long history of papermaking and printing in the Gravesend, Northfleet and Purfleet areas of Kent and Essex. Paper produced in these mills had a multitude of purposes, demonstrating the versatility of paper, including, Newsprint paper for newspapers, comics and magazines (also printed in this area) Tissue paper for toilet rolls, nappies and sanitary products (and still being made today) Paper sacks for the transport of commodities such as tea, flour, sugar, potatoes, chemicals and minerals. Cardboard for packaging and packing cases Paperboard for the linings of plasterboard In an edition of The British Printer 1953, an article entry was sent in by Bowater, who had a paper mill in Gravesend. The Bowater competition for art students The chairman and directors of the Bowater Paper Corporation are sponsoring a competition among the students attending art schools in the United Kingdom. Illustrations to be submitted are for the Bowater desk calendar for 1954. Competitors are invited to illustrate The Versatility of Paper and its Importance in the World Today, and they can interpret this theme in any way they choose… 70 years after this article was published, and in collaboration with artist Dawn Cole, Fourth Portal invited people to partake in The Versatility of Paper. Participants were given a small piece of antique paper which they could use to make an artwork that celebrates the versatility of paper. The paper could be used to print, paint, pulp, sculpt, fold, engineer, play, shred, glue, and dye, in fact, the possibilities with paper are endless. The only rule was that the finished work must contain, in some way, the original piece of paper. The provided paper varied in size, weight, shape, colour and age. The only information provided was the name of the papermill, its weight and the type of paper if known. Artworks were exhibited on the Fourth Portal website and displayed in an exhibition held in the autumn of 2023 at the Fourth Portal Lab. The call was open to all ages. Those interested could collect a piece of paper in person or send an email to info@fourthportal.com with The Versatility of Paper as the subject line and were sent a piece of paper in the post. The deadline for return of the paper was 31 August 2023 Fourth Portal Lab @ St Andrews Art Centre, 19 Royal Pier Road, Gravesend, Kent, DA12 2BD. Participants were asked to include their name, the title of the work and a brief statement about the piece. An extension to the call-out was made possible with the kind support of the Essex Culture Diversity Project. This event has ended Visit Event Page MORE ON THIS EVENT BELOW Previous Next Event Documentation Previous Next