Sci And Tech

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.

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

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

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

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)