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Gravesend Innovation Showcase 2024 events, locations, talks, speakers and times. < Back Polaroid Workshop Start Time FINISHED Running Time 4 Hours with lunchbreak Location FINISHED Event Type Workshop About the Event Introduction In this hands-on workshop, participants will use Instax ‘Polaroid’ cameras to explore and photograph urban spaces. The session will begin with a discussion on ‘visual urbanism’ and how this once outdated technology has regained popularity among artists and professionals. We’ll work on a brief focused on urban materialities - buildings, surfaces, and objects - and participants will also be encouraged to photograph people encountered during the session. The workshop coincides with the Gravesend Christmas lights switch-on, drawing many residents to the town centre. After returning to Gravesend Fourth Portal, we’ll edit the images, which will be part of a pop-up exhibition on Wednesday, 20 November 2024 facilitated by the Fourth Portal for the Innovation Showcase 2024. More on the event lead Paul Halliday is a visual artist trained in photojournalism, fine art film, social anthropology, art history and archaeology at LCC, Central Saint Martins, Goldsmiths and the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. He is a former Channel 4 film director, British Refugee Council Media Advisor, public relations and branding research consultant, Third Year BA Photomedia Leader, and MA Photography and Urban Cultures Course Leader for over 20 years at Goldsmiths, University of London. Paul has developed many long-term photographic archives working with 35mm rangefinder, Polaroid 190, Rolleiflex TLR and 6x9 medium format cameras. He taught spatial research for cinematography and directing at the Norwegian National Film School for several years. Event Information Meeting location: 10:30am, start 11.00am, Fourth Portal, Royal Pier Road, Gravesend, DA12 2BD A 30-minute lunch break will take place from 12:30 – 1:00pm. Total Time: 4 hours All Materials, including Polaroid cameras provided. __ Tickets Full Price £35.20 - (Ticket price: £32.00 + Booking fee: £3.20) Concessions £29.70 - (Ticket price: £27.00 + Booking fee: £2.70) ___ Even more information ___ His website is: www.paulhalliday.com Buy Tickets Here Background Before mobile phone cameras, the Polaroid camera was the only affordable equipment available to the average person to capture and instantly share a moment in time. "The company was founded in 1937 by Edwin H. Land, a young scientist and inventor who had a passion for photography. In 1947, Polaroid introduced its first instant camera, the Model 95. This camera used a unique film and development process that allowed users to produce a finished print in just 60 seconds." (read more on Analogue Wonderland ) Previous Next

Gravesend Innovation Showcase 2024 events, locations, talks, speakers and times. < Back Mini Jam with Tiny Synths Start Time 11:00 Running Time 5 hours Location 9, 15-17, Popping Up Event Type Participation About the Event Introduction Join Felix X Tigersonic for a relaxed interactive session where you'll explore the world of tiny synths. This hands-on session invites music enthusiasts of all levels to experiment and collaborate in a silent, headphone-based setting. Featuring Felix's magic suitcase collection of instruments, including Pocket Operators, Monotrons, and Atari punk consoles. More on the event lead TIGERSONIC My name is Felix X Tigersonic Space Bass – Sound Artist music, videos , art objects, performances and residencies. I also record and produce other artists. I make something everyday, music or video. Sometimes I post it on Instagram or Bandcamp, but often its just for me I have been told there is a “dubby vibe” to my work. __more___ Tigersonic (aka Felix Macintosh) has been described as “dub minimalist”, with 2 albums where dub-influenced future bass meets ultra-short tracks (under 2 minutes). Short is BEAUTIFUL! She makes beats on her phone on the way to the studio then adds bass, mixing tunes quick and dirty – when the idea is done, so is the track. Her day job is working as a protools engineer at her underground Isington studio, where she makes everything perfect in the digital domain for other musicians. But with her own music, she wants to embrace all the dirt, grit and mistakes in her work (because “humans are analogue”). influences include King Tubby, Adrian Sherwood, Denis Bovell, Eno, Asian Dub Foundation and Space Jesus, and current releases include Blipcuts (on the Linear Obsessional label) and TIGER GRRR (on Artmix, her own label only available via Bandcampl). Linear Obsessional called Blipcuts “groove based abstractica for the restless and the curious” and compares her style to early ACR, On-U Sound and PIL, with a post-punk energy and willingness to experiment.” Honest Music For Dishonest Times describes her sound as “engaging, super-varied, dub-influenced electronica” that “bridges the divide between bass music and experimental”. Felix’s previous work has been in the underground breakbeat scene (Xfile and Aref Durvesh / early Visionary Underground) and her remix creds incl. General Levy / Genetic Drugz / Asian Dub Foundation / Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (for Navras Records) Trisomie 21. She also co/wrote and played bass on “Pandora” a track on cult underground film Nil by Mouth. She currently meets and collaborates with artists on Londons experimental music scene, and has taken part in composer Sharon Gals mass feedback performance, become part of Linear Obsessional’s drone orchestra, attended Graham Dunning’s sound art workshops, and performed a short tour of silent gigs in art galleries with Vaat du Fuq. These collaborations have been a real ear-opener and led to Felix performing and recording solo for the first time, using her go-to Hohner headless bass augmented with effects that include a Korg Monotron Delay. She has been increasingly interested in investigating bass and beats in a more abstract way. Her current mission is exploring the question, “How low can you go and how fast can you get there?”, and TIGER GRRR is the second edition of these explorations. Event Information This event is free. No experience needed. Open to all ages. Felix will be travelling around the town and appearing in different locations. No set times or destinations - you may need to go a search for her! :) ___ Even more information ___ See more Felix X Tigersonics https://www.creativehead.space/tigersonic/ This event is being updated Previous Next

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

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Paul Taylor Poetry Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Flimflam 24 September 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

< Back Designing A Sustainable Material For 3D Printing With Spent Coffee Grounds Don’t throw out those used coffee grounds—use them for 3D printing instead. Any object you create can be thrown back into a coffee grinder and reused on a new object. ars TECHNICA 21 Sept 2023 “You can make a lot of things with coffee grounds,” said co-author Michael Rivera of the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the ATLAS Institute, who specializes in digital fabrication and human-computer interactions. “And when you don’t want it anymore, you can throw it back into a coffee grinder and use the grounds to print again. Our vision is that you could just pick up a few things at a supermarket and online and get going.” As 3D printers have moved into more widespread use, it has sparked concerns about environmental sustainability, from the high energy consumption to the thermoplastics used as a printing material—most commonly polylactic acid (PLA). PLA waste usually ends up in a landfill where it can take as long as 1,000 years to decompose, per Rivera. While there have been efforts to recycle PLA in the same way plastic (PET) soda bottles are typically recycled, it's an energy-intensive process that can't be done by the average user at home. Adding biomass fillers (bamboo or hemp fiber, oyster shells, and yes, spent coffee grounds) makes recycling even more labor and energy intensive. From the academic paper. 4. 3D PRINTING APPROACH This section describes our preparation procedure for our spent coffee ground-based material (SCG material), our 3D printer set-up, printing parameters, and our decision process for aspects such as nozzle diameter and print speed. 4.1 Material Preparation We partnered with a local coffee shop5 to receive their SCG that were previously used to make espresso-based drinks (e.g., lattes, cappuccinos). The obtained grounds were finely ground to approximately Math 1 in diameter (visually similar in size to table salt) and initially wet. We opted to dry the SCG in direct sunlight for two days to avoid energy consumption associated with oven-drying. Once fully dried, we sifted the grounds using a basic kitchen strainer6 to remove any large clumps. After measuring their proper proportions, all of the dry powders (i.e., SCG, XG, CMC) were combined together in a single jar. The powders were then shaken together for approximately 1 min  to ensure a uniform mixture. This combination was then slowly mixed into another jar containing a proportional amount of water by mass. Once the mixture was homogeneous, the SCG material was loaded into 60 mL syringes7. Following the exact proportions in table 2 produces approximately 90 mL of the SCG material. Notably, this entire procedure can be accomplished in a standard kitchen at home with food-safe ingredients. Academic Paper can be found at: https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3563657.3595983 https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/dont-throw-out-those-used-coffee-grounds-use-them-for-3d-printing-instead/ For more: Design, 3D Printing Previous Next

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Korhan Futaci Alto Saxophone Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Flimflam 24 September 2025 London Improvisers Orchestra #36 7 June 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

A rare opportunity to see the extraordinary musician Mike Cooper performing live in the intimate Fourth Portal Lab. Mike Cooper < Back 8 October 2023 A rare opportunity to see the extraordinary musician Mike Cooper performing live in the intimate Fourth Portal Lab. Previous Next About the event Mike Cooper has been described as "the icon of post-everything music". This was a rare opportunity to see the extraordinary musician Mike Cooper performing. ___ Mike Cooper Mike Cooper (b.1942) was a pioneer of the 1960s folk/blues scene alongside John Renbourn, Bert Jansch and Davey Graham, but his restless exploration and enthusiasm for world music and experimental music led him to greatly expand his repertoire. More recent work straddles the genres of free improvisation, ambient electronica, and Polynesian exotica, whilst his original country/folk influences and technique are never too far from the surface. Cooper has long been fascinated by the tragic story of the Franklin voyage, commemorated by a plaque in the home of the Fourth Portal, St. Andrew's Mission Church, Gravesend, and this unique performance will include a meditation, including video projections, on this expedition. More info on Mike Cooper - https://www.cooparia.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Cooper_(musician) This event has ended Visit Event Page MORE ON THIS EVENT BELOW Previous Next Event Documentation Previous Next

< Back What is TinyML? TinyML has been gaining traction due to the development of hardware and software ecosystems that support it. The tool has made it possible to implement machine learning models in low-energy systems, like microcontrollers, TinyML can be used in a wide range of sectors, including agriculture, industrial predictive maintenance, and customer experience. It can also be used for computer vision, visual wake words, keyword spotters, gesture recognition, and more. Datacamp 26 Aug 2024 What is Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML)? TinyML is a type of machine learning that allows models to run on smaller, less powerful devices. It involves hardware, algorithms, and software that can analyze sensor data on these devices with very low power consumption, making it ideal for always-on use-cases and battery-operated devices. All around us every day Machine learning models play a prominent role in our daily lives – whether we know it or not. Throughout the course of a typical day, the odds are that you will interact with some machine learning model since they have permeated almost all the digital products we interact with; for example, social media services, virtual personal assistance, search engines, and spam filtering by your email hosting service. Despite the many instances of machine learning in daily life, there are still several areas the technology has failed to reach. The cause? Many machine learning models, especially state-of-the-art (SOTA) architectures, require significant resources. This demand for high-performance computing power has confined several machine learning applications to the cloud – on-demand computer system resource provider. Read more... Originally posted February 2023 https://www.datacamp.com/blog/what-is-tinyml-tiny-machine-learning For more: Machine Learning, Neural Network, Infrastructure Previous Next

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Rick Irvine Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #5 9 August 2016 SKRONK #176 15 July 2025 SKRONK #177 2 September 2025 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 Mark Wastell Percussion Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Boat-Ting Nov25 3 November 2025 Boat-Ting Nov24 4 November 2024 Boat-Ting Oct25 6 October 2025 ImproVox #05 10 December 2024 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Scott Biagi Accordion Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs ImproVox #10 30 June 2025 ImproVox #01 8 July 2024 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

< Back A Bold New Plan For Preserving Online Privacy And Security Decoupling our identities from our data and actions could safeguard our secrets IEEE Spectrum 27 Dec 2023 Three classes of new technology developed in the last few years now make decoupling practical in many more applications. Imagine you’re on a Zoom call. Your device and those of your colleagues are sending video to Zoom’s servers. By default, this is encrypted when sent to Zoom, but Zoom can decrypt it. That means Zoom’s servers see the video and hear the audio, and then forward it to others on the call. Zoom also knows who’s talking to whom, and when. Meetings that were once held in a private conference room are now happening in the cloud, and third parties like Zoom see it all: who, what, when, where. There’s no reason a videoconferencing company has to learn such sensitive information about every organization it provides services to. But that’s the way it works today, and we’ve all become used to it. There are multiple threats to the security of that Zoom call. A Zoom employee could go rogue and snoop on calls. Zoom could spy on calls of other companies or harvest and sell user data to data brokers. It could use your personal data to train its AI models. And even if Zoom and all its employees are completely trustworthy, the risk of Zoom getting breached is omnipresent. Whatever Zoom can do with your data in motion, a hacker can do to that same data in a breach. Decoupling data in motion could address those threats. Videoconferencing doesn’t need access to unencrypted video to push bits between your device and others. A properly decoupled video service could secure the who, what, where, and when of your data in motion, beginning with the “what”—the raw content of the call. True end-to-end encryption of video and audio would keep that content private to authorized participants in a call and nobody else. (Zoom does currently offer this option, but using it disables many other features.) https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-privacy For more: AI, Machine Learning, Cloud, Security, Protocols, GPU, TEE, CPU, Decoupling, Algorithm, Design Previous Next