MARIANO TOMATISWONDER INJECTORItalian writer and magician
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 Magic & Bay AreaFrom Turin to Bay Area for the funniest Mesmeric Act ever Posted on tuesday 22 july 2014, 17 days before scifoo14 • Written by Mariano TomatisThere is a curious connection between the city I live in (Turin, Italy) and the Bay Area. Italy’s first capital city in 1861 and home to the House of Savoy (the royal family), Turin has always been open to esoterists, alchemists, astrologers and clairvoyants. At the end of 18th century it hosted the first Mesmeric Society founded by Sebastiano Giraud. In 1939 Giorgio de Chirico, founding father of Metaphysical Art, defined Turin the most deep, enigmatic, and disquieting city, not just in Italy but in the whole world. According to a local tradition, Turin lays on the vertex of a giant “Black Magic Triangle” together with London, England and San Francisco, CA.  As a homage to this impalpable liaison, I have just submitted the abstract for a “Lightning Talk” to be given at Sci Foo 2014: “A truly Mesmeric Act”. My Lightning Talk at Sci Foo 2014: a truly Mesmeric Act Far from the obscure implications of Black Magic and VooDoo practices, my talk will be a 5-minute playful experience involving all the audience at once: a magic act lying at the intersection between recreational mathematics and the tradition of Italian historical novels. Its recipe? Just mix a brain teaser by Martin Gardner, the atmosphere of a baroque building in Turin and an unexpected, subversive ending in San Francisco sauce. Will you attend the shortest and funniest Mesmeric Act you will ever experience?  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.