Confluence – Season 1
Episodes
The Dance
The Dance reveals how art and technology are forever engaged in a push/pull dialog that advances creative enterprise. Scientists and engineers learn from artists while artists use new technologies in unexpected ways. Catie Cuan, a choreographer and engineer, employs dance to enable robots to mimic more human movements. Stephon Alexander, a theoretical physicist and musician, uses jazz to help students understand the mysteries of the universe. Starchitect Jamie Von Klemperer shows how he blends art and technology to design buildings which shape the look of cities around the world. And twin artists Ryan and Trevor Oakes uniquely capture time and space in their mesmerizing parabolic paintings.
Material World
Discover the cutting edge of materials science and watch as glass is forged into playable cymbals, an array of found objects becomes breathtaking sculpture, and banana leaves are transformed into fabric for the haute couture runway.
Everything New is Old Again
Art curator Jérome Neutres takes us to the Louvre where we see how the use of oil paints in the 15th century transformed portraiture, and how the development of paint in tubes enabled Impressionism to flourish.