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SUMMARY:Mind and Magic: Manipulating Perception Through Physical Misdirect
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DTSTART:20140307T143000
DTEND:20140307T160000
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DESCRIPTION:Mark Mitton\nPhysical misdirection is the foundation on which 
 all magic - tricks\, illusions\, escapes\, pick pocketing\, mind reading\,
  and even physical comedy – is based. It operates on the relationship b
 etween the actual and the perceived in a tactical way.  This kind of magi
 c offers a specific way to track awareness\, arousal and identity as an ex
 perience that is not necessarily verbal.  World-famous magician Mark Mitt
 on invites us to experience physical misdirection for ourselves from both 
 the audience's and practitioner's perspectives. Mitton will give a talk a
 bout physical misdirection - his specialty within magic - and draw connect
 ions to themes from cognitive psychology like attentional selection and in
 attentional blindness. He will engage us in thinking about how physical mi
 sdirection can be useful to scientists\, psychologists and philosophers wh
 o are interested in perception\, memory and perhaps even consciousness.\nA
 bout Mark Mitton:\nMark Mitton is a world-famous professional magician who
  is fascinated by using magic to better understand how we see the world. F
 or the past 25 years\, Mitton has not only been dazzling audiences with hi
 s amazing skills\, but has also been involved in investigating magic’s c
 onnections with psychology\, biology\, neurology\, and philosophy. A propo
 nent of the renowned cognitive psychologist Urich Neisser and apprentice t
 o the famous magician magician Slydini\, Mitton is just as eager to engage
  with psychologists and neuroscientists as he is to perform mind-bending f
 eats of physical misdirection. He has co-organized and/or participated in 
 a number of meetings with leading cognitive psychologists (Eldar Shafir\, 
 Joseph LeDoux\, Nicholas Turk-Brown\, and others) around the theme of mind
  and magic. Mitton has also entertained at private events of Beyonce and S
 ting\,  done opening acts for Aerosmith\, made Will Smith appear in the m
 iddle of Times Square\, taught sleight of hand to John Travolta and Stanle
 y Tucci\, worked with the biologist and Nobel laureate Gerald Edelman\,  
 performed in honor of Frank Yang\, and recently moderated a panel of art r
 estorers and criminal investigators who were addressing the theme of fraud
 \, forgery\, illusion\, and the counterfeit.\nMitton's web site: www.markm
 itton.com\nA BBC documentary with Mark Mitton stealing people's wrist watc
 hes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToDMG7ptZss\nMitton's CV (attached to 
 announcement on memento.epfl.ch)
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