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Welcome it's exciting to kick off the second week of siggraph 2020 with our keynote session
As an imagineer for disney. I love getting a glimpse of magic in the everyday
Given all the uncertainty in the world these days i'm guessing many of you watching may appreciate seeing some of this wonder as well
That said i'm ecstatic to introduce our keynote presenter cyber illusionist marco tempest
Marco began his performing career as a stage magician and manipulator winning awards and establishing an international reputation as a master illusionist
his interest in computer generated imagery led him to incorporate video and digital technology in his work that he developed into a new form of
contemporary illusion
Marco is a director's fellow at the mit media lab a creative consultant at the nasa jet propulsion laboratory
An extended reality lead consultant for accenture
A speaker for ted talks and other events and the founder and executive director of magic lab in new york city
marco fits our conference theme of think beyond to a t
So get comfy and be ready to engage when asked so that you fully experience the delight of today's keynote session
At this time i'd like to welcome marco tempe
Hello everybody, well, first of all, thank you very much to siggraph for the wonderful introduction
And a big thank you to you for joining me in my session today
I guess you're all safe at home. And uh
I think i'm just gonna get started. So as you already heard, my name is marco tempest
And I am a cyber illusionist
And the founder of the magic lab in new york city
I create magical experiences that gives us insights into the way humans and technology interact
A lot of what I do when i'm not on stage presenting
Is helping organizations bring their technological stories to life
I work with
augmented and virtual reality
gestural sensing
robotics augmented intelligence
Machine learning and a whole host of other interesting technologies
to create stories and experiences
That are dynamic
clear
memorable and
seemingly
impossible
Today i'd like to talk about the
creative framework or mindset for creating these experiences
How do you go about?
inventing the impossible
Now i've been inventing impossible things for most of my life before I moved into technology
I worked as a professional magician and I found that
most of my time was spent problem solving
That is the nature of magic solving impossible problems
It's a specialized skill that combines technology
And psychology in unorthodox ways
to create an experience that the audience interprets
as magical
in magic
We talk about the effect our illusions have on the audience in technology. We talk about the user experience
Not to create
Magic, we look for gaps in what we know to be true
because it is in those gaps that the
impossibilities lie
Now to do that we must be curious. We want to know about
Everything we collect esoteric knowledge that this knowledge
Accumulated over centuries is readily shared with colleagues
There are literally
thousands of books on the topics hundreds of journals countless videos
No other performing art is so well documented
Magicians were in a way the pioneers of the open source community
Today i'd like to share three applications that have been developed at the magic lab. They involve psychology
technology
And storytelling and they allow us to experience magic
to experience
the impossible
And before I continue I want to make sure
That you're going to get your questions comments suggestions in please use the chat box in your browser
I would love to have a little conversation at the end of my
Presentation so let's get started with psychology
magic tricks
Are field experiments in psychology?
The goal is to control what the audience sees and thinks
We manipulate behavior and environment to produce a moment of magic a moment
That seems impossible now those moments of astonishment
Are derived from hundreds if not thousands of live performances
It's only recently that psychologists have begun to look into the way magicians achieve their effects
What they are discovering is that magicians have been using
psychological principles
In covered ways for hundreds of years
For example psychologists began to explore what is known as change blindness as late as the 80s
Change blindness is a perceptual phenomenon that occurs when a change in a visual stimulus is introduced and the observer does not notice it
But magicians have been using this print simply in their performances since the early 1900s
So let me show you an effect devised in
1905 more than a hundred years ago by a magician called henry
Jordan, henry called himself the prince of ideas, hence
The trick is called the princess card trick and you can all play along. So this is how it goes I prepared
five virtual playing cards and I want you all to remember one of these five cards remember the suit
And the value of your chosen card and make up your mind now, don't forget your card
The card's gonna get mixed up and i'm gonna remove one of these five cards
How about maybe this one here now if I was right?
Then your card
has disappeared
Did your card disappear? Well, don't worry about it
My card disappeared too. So what did just happen? Well
as I said
This trick is an old one and it works because while focusing on one card we fail to recall the others
That's what psychologists call change blindness
The tricks of magicians are not designed to fool the eye the eye observes
Whatever is put in front of it the brain then translates that scene into information
But the brain can be lazy looking for familiar patterns in what it sees in order to save time and energy
In the case of the princess card trick the brain recognizes elements and assumes that the things it sees now
Are exactly the same as the things it has seen before
Magic exploits our lazy thinking in many different ways the magician designs tricks so that everything about them
Seems familiar the apparatus seems ordinary the magician's actions seem above suspicion even the words. He uses seem
straightforward and
Unambiguous, but this veneer of ordinariness covers many deceptions
so the eye sees everything but the brain is being fooled or
As sherlock holmes said to dr. Watson you see but you do not observe
exactly
So before I move on want to make sure please keep these questions coming comments suggestions
Gonna get to them at the end of the presentation
I'd like to try something a little different next
maybe
I can do
a little demo
All right. Let's talk for a moment about using magic to prototype the future and for this
I have to go to my living room. So
What is impossible today might very well be possible tomorrow
As I moved from being a magician to a technologist
I ask myself a question
What role is there for the magician in a world where technology?
Makes anything possible?
Like the science fiction writer
Magicians are always looking to the future
even with all our technology that will always be things that are
impossible today and that's where
Magic comes in so let's see if I can create the illusion of the future for you now
100 years ago, that would have been the magic of levitation
Is it possible to create illusions in a world where?
technology
Makes anything possible?
jump
Now if you know how the trick is done
Where is the illusion?
but still
Our imagination is more powerful than our reasoning and it's easy to attribute personality
To machines
These are quadcopters
but they are more than
Mechanical flying machines they analyze the environment around them and react
To everything I do
Advanced algorithm allow these autonomous machines to fly in close formation aware of each other
aware of me
Mathematics that can be mistaken for intelligence and intelligence
for personality
Anthropomorphism that's the illusion an illusion
created by technology and
embroidered
by our imagination to become an intelligent flying robot a machine that
appears to be alive
I think they say hello. Hey guys, that's it
I think it's a time to go home. Okay, everybody. How about right over here?
Come on
Can you do that?
Everybody one after the other come on, no pushing
One after the other you can fit in there no pushing. There you go. Very nice. Very nice
And no sleeping out here
And that's it
Okay, that went sufficiently well
Make myself back up
And while I do, let's talk a little bit about what just happened. So one of the problems when interacting with technology
Is that we can't read a machine the same way we can read our fellow humans
We can't read a machine's intent
And that makes us feel
uncomfortable
in this demonstration
We interact with technology as we might interact with our pets but we're not yet at a stage where we can build drones that follow
every thought command or gesture
But as you've seen we can simulate this experience using illusion
At the magic lab, we think of these simulations as ways to prototype the future
A way to field test our relationship with advanced technology
We can create the illusion that the technology is much more
Sophisticated than it is and we can study how people react to it. How would they behave if such a thing was possible?
So in this particular proof of concept, we wanted to visualize close human interaction with a swarm of drones
A timely topic and something that is difficult to do because of the obvious safety issues
So we utilize toy drones which have downward facing cameras
That can track the pattern on the magic carpet. You see on the floor the carpet enables each of the drones to self-localize
each vehicle has its own internal flight planner and is completely
Independent. It creates a very robust system. It's easy to set up and has no single point of value
The demonstration came about because of my own curiosity
What were the limits of autonomous flying machines what could the future of this technology look like? And could I use illusion?
To render that future in real time now
I mentioned the importance of collaboration earlier
This robust drone system was devised with the aid of some very talented programmers and engineers
The same is true for many of my projects
When you work with diverse talents
They not only bring specific skills to the project but also different views different perspectives
When you're developing anything, I think it's important to listen
And not just to the loudest voices, but to the quietest whispers a good idea can come from anywhere
so too
Can good advice?
But it is the mindset of the magician that brings us the illusion of anthropomorphism
It's the willingness to ask. What does it take to go beyond the possible and make today's technology do the seemingly impossible?
It reminds me of something that rc clark said the only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them
into the
Impossible and I think that's a mindset that anyone can adopt
All right, I want to bring this up one more time I see we already have a lot of questions and comments
So, please keep them coming
and
Let's move on. Let's talk about storytelling
So when I create a magic effect what i'm really doing is try to control how the brain thinks about a given situation
I'm, creating a narrative of events that I want you to remember by highlighting certain events and hiding others. I
Emphasize the impossible experience and direct the attention away from the mechanics
That's why it's difficult to figure out how tricks are done. The information you need was seen but not observed
Now i've used the idea of creating narratives in other areas of my work
People do not remember data
But they do remember stories and they share them with their friends. It's built into our dna and we can use
storytelling not only to entertain
But also to better describe the work we do to the wider world
We can also use technology to enhance the storytelling experience
We already do that in radio movies theater
But new technologies create new platforms for storytelling
So with that in mind, let me tell you a story
about magic
And let me set this up
All right, so this is going to be a demonstration of uh
Of augmented reality, all right
All right
Augmented reality is the melding of the real world with computer generated imagery
It seems the perfect medium to investigate magic
and ask why in a technological
Age we continue to have this magical sense of wonder
Now magic is deception
but it is a
deception we enjoy
To enjoy being deceived an audience must first
Suspend its disbelief
It was the poet samuel taylor caldridge who first suggested this receptive state of
Mind I try to convey a semblance of truth in my writing to produce for these shadows of the imagination
For willing suspension of disbelief that for a moment
constitutes poetic
This faith in the fictional is essential for any kind of theatrical experience without it a script is just words
Virtual reality just the latest
Technology and sleight of hand. It's just an artful demonstration of dexterity
Now we are all very good at suspending our disbelief
We do it every day while reading novels watching television or going to the movies
we willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and
Cry for friends we never had without this ability. There is no magic
it was
char robert
France's greatest illusionist who first recognized the role of the magician as a storyteller
he said
A conjurer is not a juggler. He is an actor playing the part of a magician which means magic a theater
And every trick is a story
The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction there are tales of creation and loss
Death and resurrection
And obstacles that must be overcome many of them are intensely dramatic magicians play with fire and
Steel, they fight a furry of the bus saw dare to catch a bullet or attempt
a deadly escape
But audiences don't come to see the magician die
They come to see him live because the best stories always have a happy ending the tricks of magic have one special element
They are stories with a twist now hedorah de bono argued that our brains are pattern matching machines
he said that magicians deliberately exploit the way their audiences think
Stage magic relies almost
On the momentum era the audience is ledged to make assumptions or elaborations that are perfectly reasonable
But do not in fact match what is being done in front of them?
In that respect magic tricks are like jokes
Chokes lead us down a path to an expected destination
But when the scenario we've imagined certainly flips into something entirely unexpected
We laugh the same thing happens when people watch magic tricks
the finale
Defies logic gives new insights into the problem and audiences express their amazement
with laughter
It's fun to be fooled. Now. One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared
We feel compelled to tell them so when I do a trick at a party
That person will immediately pull their friend over and ask me to do it again
They want to share the experience
Makes my job more difficult because if I want to surprise them, I need to tell a story that starts the same
But ends differently
a trick with a twist
on a twist
Keeps me busy now experts believe that stories go beyond the capacity for keeping us entertained
We think in narrative structures
We connect events
and emotions and instinctively
transform them into a
Sequence that can be easily understood. It's a uniquely human achievement
We all want to share our stories whether it is the trick
We saw at the party the bad day at the office or the beautiful sunset. We saw on vacation now today
Thanks to technology. We can share those stories like never before by
email
Facebook
blogs
Tweets the tools of social networking. These are the
digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our stories
We turn
facts into simile and metaphor
and even fantasy
We polish the raw fetches of our lives so that they feel whole
Our stories make us the people we are
and sometimes
the people we want to be
They give us our identity
and the sense of community
And if the story is a good one
it might even
Make us smile
All right, let's uh switch this over again
Okay, so
One of my favorite authors is louis carroll
He loves puzzles
logic and mathematical recreations
He also loved magic and he brought all those passions together in his children's books
Where he gave young minds a space?
to exercise their imagination
One of his most famous lines is from ali through the looking glass
It's there that ellie says
There's no use trying
One can't believe impossible things
But the queen told alice that perhaps she hadn't had enough practice
she said
When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day
Why sometimes I believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast
Magicians start young
Children believe in possible things but you don't have to become a magician to think like one
You just have to believe that nothing is impossible
That is the mindset of the magician
That is the starting point of invention
It's a position of hope and confidence that a problem can be solved
For me and I hope for you this seems like a good place to begin
nothing
is impossible
This magical mindset is more than a philosophy to creating possibilities
We use
science and
psychology and wrap them in story
and while we employ those elements in
Unexpected ways every seeming impossibility is reached by a series of practical steps
these steps include
curiosity
collaboration diversity of thought
sharing storytelling
and
focusing on the user experience
These steps are not exclusive to the world of magic
lewis carol dreamed of impossible things
And so can you so here are my takeaways
first stay curious
Take the time to look beyond the world around us to see beneath the surface peek behind the curtain
in magic
We truly believe that nothing is as it seems there is always a different way and there is always more than one destination
second
is collaboration
you can't do it alone magic like many arts is a
Multi-disciplinary craft it involves many different challenges invention
Construction writing performing choreography lighting sound video and so on
You seek out the best people to help I have worked with
technologists graphic designers software engineers film producers actors writers
marketeers
Collaboration is invaluable
You'll be amazed at the insights that can be brought to a project from
Outside your own working sphere
Now although everyone on the team has their speciality
I think it's important that everyone feels they can input wherever necessary
Fresh eyes on a problem will help avoid groupthink
So I might start on a project in a particular role
storyteller or videographer
But then move into another role perhaps the user experience or another technical role now
This gives me an overview of the project and alerts me to both problems and opportunities early on
So view every project from as many different aspects as you can that way you avoid surprises later
Storytelling
the value of storytelling cannot be
underestimated
Storytelling should be a core competency of every organization. It should be included at the beginning of a project or product development
storytelling
Harmonizes the multiple interests and goals that people have and keeps everyone on board with a mission narrative
A story gives us a purpose and the audience an experience to remember
Now I found a lot of help in the open source community where ideas technology and software are shared
At the magic lab, we have an open door policy. We listen to every idea. We collaborate
And we share if we don't know how to do something we reach out
The result is a network of supporters and experts in every field that make our work better
people are
Unbelievably giving and sharing discoveries is something I wholeheartedly subscribe to
In magic
the user experience is
Everything every performance in magic is a field test. That's where theory meets the reality of human behavior
It's also the place where we receive face-to-face feedback
And believe me can be tough
But it's also essential
The only real test of a project is when it leaves the lab and meets the outside world and that's when people haven't been
indoctrinated by groupthink
will have their say
now we go through great lengths to ensure that the user experience is not only good but uniform
Whether we're creating an experience for one spectator
or an audience of thousands
New technologies are not required to create magic and illusions
Nor do we need them to solve many other problems
I would argue that many of our engineering problems are in fact liberal arts or design problems
We must always remember the role that human psychology plays in any interaction
The user experience is paramount
We are creating a planet filled with incredible technological devices
The problems we have relate to the way these devices
Interface with the people who use them that is our challenge
in conclusion
The art and craft of magic has survived every age because it understands people
It is absolutely focused on the user experience
I don't think magic will ever
disappear no matter how much technology changes
human beings
Stay the same. They always want magic and they always give it a space in their imagination
This desire isn't restricted to magic the world has a thirst for wonder that is insatiable
It is part of what leads us to creating new digital services
movies
technology and hardware
It's why audiences applaud and cheer at tech lounges?
Our users want to be excited and amazed as each new future is unveiled
a magical mindset
Will get you there
so
Stay curious
Collaborate
invite others to share the journey with you create an engine of thought from a diversity of skills and
multiplicity of ideas
It will take you beyond the possible
keep your eye on the destination, but
Listen to the quietest whispers as well as the loudest cries
The bumps in the road will be so much smoother
And when you reach your goal
Share it
The world is waiting to be astonished
Thank you very much for listening to my presentation today and for joining us online
And I think we're going to have some questions coming in
To have a little bit of a conversation
Thank you very much
all
Right, so I have a question from kco
Wow, are the drones reacting to your voice or body gesture or are they pre-programmed?
So, um, the short question answer is I have a wonderful wonderful piece of software which runs in unity
So thank you to the sponsor
Which was created by a company in the south of france called tronisos
It's an authoring system for pre-programmed drones. However
I had a four-year journey
coming to this particular solution where we had like
A priori path planning with drones with motion capture systems on stage with lots of point of failures
and
I just had to
Trim it down more and more and more to have the most safe stable solution. So
You could say it's the illusion of interactivity you're experiencing when you're watching my drones
They would do everything they do without me even being there. However, I hope it gives the
The feeling of how it would be if they would be listening to me and to my commands
So thank you for the question. I think we have another question coming in from anna
Can the illusion of what the future looks like be used to manage the fears of the advancement of technology?
Probably so I think the drones are a very good example
Um, it's very topical piece like we also black mirror
which is another another way to think about drones for sure and
I thought it would be great to bring drones on stage and say okay. How is that? Is that creepy? Is that delightful?
Can we imagine that these kind of flying robots might?
Be interacting in our environments with us
So in that sense, I think
this kind of prototype in the future or just artists taking
uh near future technology or
What the industry would call the art of the possible?
and then doing their own thing and adding their own stories to it will certainly kind of mitigate the possibilities and hopefully
not just prevent fear, but
maybe even
Influence the trajectory of where these technologies will go in the near future
So thank you for the question. Uh how much prep time was needed for this
For this today so much
I was incredibly nervous. Of course. This is kind of like a
live conference appearance, but
I'm in this tiny little room in my in my home, right? And uh,
Next door is uh is carmen who's helping me with this? Hello carmen
She's my producer. So we're both running cues and clicking around on our computers. There's a big fan making sure that my
My mac is not overheating. So there was a lot of prep involved but
I would say the prep was more kind of
Learning new things and hopefully staying curious about all the things which didn't work the first time around so I hope
I hope my
My my mouth is in sync with my audio and I hope that the video somehow made it across
So, um a lot of work but a lot of play as well
we're gonna have another question from lake magic is often based on memorizing and posing how much of your
Positioning for the ar effect is pre-planned. So the the system we saw with this
contraption here
is
It's turned off now is actually
Uh, it's a playback system which works in chapters. So each chapter has a few states
it looks for there's a
connect type
Sensor here and the hd camera and then there's a macbook which does all the compositing
And so each scene gives me a few actions. So one scene might look for
My palms coming together and then triggering something another one
Might want me to go from left to right at a certain angle from one area to the other
One will make sure my face is visible so it can trigger the next scene. So in a sense, it's uh
it's
pre-recorded but interactive enough for me to stay interesting and give me a little bit of head room for
Interpretation on how I want to speed up or slow down or or interact with the with the digital content so to speak
And i'm gonna have another question
From alice and how do you think technology and magic intersect or overlap? Um
so i'm not sure who said this for kind of every uh,
Well rc clark's officially advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic and that and I think that's where the overlap is
It's kind of new technologies
um tend to be magical when we first see him and
and in that sense offer a lot of opportunities for a magician to kind of um
Create a use case which would be specific for magic
In other words kind of subverse the use of a technology to make it do something
To enable a magical story or an insight into a near future in in my respect
I also have to say that a lot of my magic is really not so
Much aimed at blowing your mind with something you had absolutely no idea how it was done. It's more kind of
showing magical
possibilities that these kind of technologies offer in order to
To tell stories or or to to entertain and delight
So thank you for the question alison
and then
Sophia asked what software does magic lab use to create these experiences?
so it's the the usual suspects I think everything which is a
computer vision and needs a heavy processing and where you really want to
Do your own kind of thing there would be like open frameworks is a fantastic tool
Is this kind of c plus plus library which enables new media artists to incredible work? I also want to do a shout out
to zac cleaverman and then rico viola who helped put together the
Story magic piece and many of the other pieces you saw in the little clips today. So open frameworks is fantastic and then everything which
involves kind of augmented reality or virtual reality
there are incredible tool sets of course with unity and with unreal engine which
Which are just very good entry points if you want to kind of have
the complex functionality
Kind of readily available to to play to play with there's one more tool. I might want to mention which is a
is adora which is a
kind of a note based
Programming tool which runs on mac and windows. It's a
It's a fantastic way to kind of wire up something you might be doing
in open frameworks without any of the programming where you can pull in a
gestural sensor like a kinect and connect it to video streams or
Or use osc messages and send it to it and receive messages and work with multiple computers. So that's
Actually also a wonderful piece of software
So
Even is asking being in a global community of creators magicians what new technologies and explorations of the impossible from your peers
Has you most excited?
so currently
All the magicians are at home, right they're doing what we are all doing. They are socially isolating
and there is a large community of magicians who have come together to create a
forum for video chat magic and
the kind of things they come up with is just absolutely remarkable like how to translate an experience from
Being so close and intimate with your audience and then using technology
To make that a little closer and some of the examples are magicians who send out magic boxes for their zoom meetings
And you join the zoom meeting and when it's time to open that box something magical happens with the physical thing
Which you got in the mail there are magicians who write software for other magicians
Things which are very similar to what what you've seen today
and there's also a lot of essays and a lot of thinking about this new modality going on in the
in the circle of magicians and I think
Again, this expands beyond the world of magic like we all have these problems now. How do we
bridge the
the
Cultural deficit which happens when we can only meet like this right? I'm super nervous here
I don't even know how big my audience is
And who's out there or who has left and is on the fridge drinking a coke right now and and stopped watching my talk
So how do we keep these connections alive? What kind of tools so magicians are really?
doing a lot in that respect and it's just wonderful to see how
How much activity is going on in my own field?
What has completely astonished you recently um
Yeah, well
What astonished me is how some of the organizations deal with the situation we're in so there's been a couple of ted talks
Which completely blew my mind where?
There are ted talks happening which are not in front of a live audience
but where the story needs to be told of what's uh
what's close and important and what's far away and what needs to say at a different angle and what needs a prop so I think
Organizations like ted have been experimenting with this in an incredible way
Like there's almost a new renaissance of what's going on there
and then there's uh the world of
podcasts right which to me is the perfect virtual reality these
Incredible podcasts which are happening. So maybe not so much in the world of magic but uh,
In the world of other media like podcasts and ted
um
So thank you glenn for this. Daniel is asking
What is your culture of collaborating with someone with a very different background or skill set? That's super good question. So
the natural tendency right is always to
Bring somebody in for a specific task, right?
so I need somebody who can do this and then you bring them in and you define that task and then
They might just be doing that task
and
The chance that you miss out on so much when you're doing it. That way is very large. So
So I think a good way is to bring somebody in and be curious about a collaboration
Even if you already kind of know
where this person could fit in your team or what kind of
Their area of expertise will be but learn a little more and be kind of inquisitive
Of what they might think about your work or what
They might think about this type of work in general and what what they have thought about this topic before
Or what other topics they think would lend them this themselves to it. I have a
Piece a collaboration where I try to tell the story of nikola tesla
With a pop-up book which comes to life which has projection mapping on in it and it required a lot of paper craft
And I reached out to this papercraft designer in germany through skype. I found him through a you through a facebook post
And we had long conversations about art and storytelling
and paper engineering and
it was not just
Asking him to make that book with these five pre-defined scenes
but uh kind of in that sense a true collaboration where you could come out the other end with
with new skills for yourself and
And and something you're not the only one to be proud of so
So thanks for that
question
uh, reuben is asking how do you foster happy accidents and improvisation when performing with technology
Well, yeah, that's delicate right because like you saw a lot of what I did today was
very very scripted while I encourage uh
spontaneic
spontaneity and
Improvisation. I also find a lot of comfort in
In being scripted and sort of like kind of making every second count like going in front of an audience for me
that's not so much the moment where I where I can just uh
let loose I can be myself and be very comfortable in this little world I cr world I create but I think the
experimenting and the improvisation that typically happens at the lab and kind of
going to play goofing around with stuff and trying new things and and creating tool sets that support that so
a lot of times when we think about traditional
production methods where you start with the script and create, you know have your music composed and hire your voice over talent and then
by the time you see your piece the very first time you're
And you see that it's not what you want. You might have to start from scratch. So creating these kind of pipelines
Which allow for fast iteration?
I think that's kind of the magical thing to allow for
for
Improvisation within within kind of digital or new media art like create a tool
Which you can truly play in like a piece of software or a workflow a pipeline
Which allows for to for you to experiment?
Until the very last moment and then for myself, then I try to lock it in
And kind of make it count right when i'm in front of the audience
so thank you for the question and
renon
Sorry if i'm mispronouncing your name
You say usually magic is not taught. What sources do you recommend to learn more about the concept of magic and
so there are
many many magic communities online which you can kind of tap in there's also
a lot of books out there and libraries on magic so I think
Just a a basic google search will kind of you know will will open up a world which you thought was so secretive
there's actually
As I said in my presentation magicians love to publish and most of these things are
Are readily available some people say like the the biggest secrets of magic
They're hidden away in books, which anybody could have access to?
All right and leon is asking what was the first magic trick you ever performed I started with a magic kit I
I got at a flea market when I was like six years old and uh
Stood in front of a mirror pretending I was a magician that kind of
Set me off the path to
Where I am today?
Uh, okay
um
Is this it? That was the last question?
Uh, oh, here's one more. What was the okay. Oh, yeah. So, um,
I think that's it
So thank you very much again to seagrav for inviting me to be
Presenting to you today and to talking to you today. I hope you had a great time. I certainly had
this is super memorable and
thank you again for joining and
Please stay safe. Thank you. Bye bye everybody
This concludes the keynote session. Marco, thank you for adding to our siggraph week and helping us to think beyond in new ways
Have a great day everyone
