Confluence

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…

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.

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.