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Confluence
The Dance
Season 1
Episode 101
The Dance reveals how art & 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. A choreographer/engineer teaches robots to dance. A robot enables neurologically challenged children to paint. A physicist uses jazz to understand the universe. And more.
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Throughout history technological innovation has revolutionized art in all its forms.

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