MARIANO TOMATISWONDER INJECTORItalian writer and magician
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 Magic & MysteryThe Shortest and Funniest Mesmeric Act Ever... Online Posted on saturday 9 august 2014• Written by Mariano TomatisSlides and text from my lightning talk (given this morning at Googleplex in Mountain View) are now available online clicking here. Enjoy!  My book L’arte di stupire (“The Art of Amazement”, Sperling&Kupfer, Milan 2014), written with Ferdinando Buscema, is already available in Italian and soon will be published also in the US with a preface by the English magician Derren Brown. Wu Ming Foundation has an English website here. The very ending of the act is an idea by Woody Aragon. Nicolas Bergasse actually leaded a revolutionary group, using Mesmerism to disguise political activities. This magic trick is part of a larger project labeled “Laboratory of Revolutionary Magnetism”, co-authored with Wu Ming Foundation as a transmedial extension of their historical novel The Army of Sleepwalkers (Einaudi, Torino 2014). You could be interested also in:
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Science Foo Camp (or “Sci Foo”) is an invitation-only gathering organized by Digital Science, O'Reilly Media, and Google, with support from Nature. The 9th edition of Sci Foo takes place on 8-10 August 2014 at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA. Lord Martin Rees has defined it as “a sort of mini Woodstock of the Mind”. Participants include researchers, writers, educators, artists, policy makers, investors, and other thought leaders, all doing groundbreaking work in diverse areas of science and technology.