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From the pencil to computer algorithms, early cartoons to videogames, and a 350-year-old Stradivarius to AI-generated sounds, since the beginning technological innovation has advanced the story of art. We’ll visit the Louvre and cutting-edge artists’ ateliers, go behind the scenes with leading video game designers, and hear how ancient and modern music technologies equally lift the human spirit.

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It’s not only what we make. It’s the materials we make it with that turns stuff into art.
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