Sci And Tech

Plastic Surgeons

Arts, Culture & Media

Plastic surgeons describe their profession and its delicate relationship to art.

Music Therapy

Arts, Culture & Media

Photographer Max Aguilera-Hellweg Goes Inside the Human Body

Arts, Culture & Media

Green Fluorescent Protein Bunny

Arts, Culture & Media

Mel Chin’s Revival Field

Arts, Culture & Media
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Father of the Laser Light Show

Arts, Culture & Media

On the domed ceilings of planetariums all over the country, laser-painted psychedelic images move to the music of Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd. Ivan Dryer is the visionary behind the teenage rite of passage: the Laserium.

Merce Cunningham’s Digital Dance

Arts, Culture & Media

The 82-year-old modern dance master Merce Cunningham describes whathappened when he began choreographing on a PC.

Glitch Music

Arts, Culture & Media

Producer Steve Nelson looks at electronic music taken to the extreme: it uses only computer-generated beeps and hums.

Commentary: Intergalactic Pop Culture

Arts, Culture & Media

Kurt wonders if the long-divided cultures of art and science are finally finding common ground.

Mel Chin’s Revival Field

Arts, Culture & Media

Kurt Andersen talks with conceptual artist Mel Chin aboutRevival Field, his sculpture to transform a landfill with plants that extract toxins from the soil. (Originally aired: March 17, 2001)

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