MATERIAL WORLD is the second of three episodes of CONFLUENCE, a documentary series that explores the many ways art, science, and technology come together to spark human creativity. An exciting array of artists, scientists, and technologists working at the cutting edge of creativity in their fields provide viewers with a fascinating and surprising look behind the scenes at the creative process. MATERIAL WORLD demonstrates it is not only the things we make, it’s the materials we make them with that turns 'stuff' into art. Discover up-to-the-minute materials science and immeasurable creativity 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.