Self replicating machines, Hack spaces, maker culture and the future of manufacturing in 3D printing. Hannah and Malcolm Napier of the Thames Valley RepRap User Group, working alongside 3D artist, Riette Hayes-Davies led the 3D Printing weekend where att

Rising to the fast-moving needs of a new workforce of "digital natives" and driving engagement in the workplace - James Monjack of Gametuned.com joins us to talk about the emerging field of "gamification" - the science of applying game mechanics to aid mo

Slaves to technology ? Contemporary dance artists, Joumana Mourad (iJAD Dance Company) and John Darvell (Nocturn Dance Company) speak about their current development projects which seek to engage with audiences using social media and the web. Their final

Exchanging dismantled vintage cassette players in the post and coaxing sound from ancient media. Sound artist, Curator and Research Fellow Stephen Cornford talks about his projects in the run up to the 2012 AudioGraft Festival at Oxford Brookes University

Dim the lights and open your ears. Lit only by the light of his laptop screen, Programme Director of Resonance 104.4FM, Ed Baxter speaking at the Sound:Space sonic arts event in January 2007. Illustrated with sonic gems from Resonance's programme, Ed Bax

The new social networking tools, Twitter and Facebook have enabled the emergence of new localised business networking meetings, Digital Surrey and Digital Berkshire. We talk to marketeers, Jocelyn Kirby and Jeff Scott about how these grassroots communitie

Ghost voices, magnetic interference or a glitch in the electronics ? Alison Ellis and Domenic Capaldi capture extraordinary unexplained voices on their recordings using only simple equipment. We speak to them following their review with the Scottish Soci

Approaching electronics as an artist, Stu "ASMO" Smith visited us in November to lead a workshop to construction a Touch Control Electronic instrument. We retire to my favourite Indian restaurant, the Sultan Curry House in this interview, where we discus

Weymouth-based artist, Joe Stevens captures moments in time in his projects like the memory-jogging "Sounds of the Seaside" and the current "Creative Conversations" interview series. Much like our own Gene Pool, one of Joe's interests is in connecting peo

The inner sounds of Bamboo plants, tramlines and ferry boat's feature in our exploration of the hidden sounds around us, with recordings made by contact microphones - small piezo discs able to pick up the sonic vibrations that run through everything. Reco