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 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.

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.

Artists and musicians have always seized on innovations in technology to advance their creative practices. 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. We also see how in the generative art of Miguel Chevalier and Elias Crespin, AI and robotics re-imagine fine art today. Celebrated drummer Will Calhoun shows us how ancient African drumming has led to New Orleans blues and urban hip hop. Master violinist Joshua Bell collaborates with a computer company to replicate his vast array of sounds to produce readily available compositions. Video game designers extraordinaire Tracy Fullerton and Jenova Chen take us through the ever evolving world of computer generated gaming. And yet "everything new is old again" as we witness the building, installation and emotional performance in a historic church of a five-thousand piece pipe org