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The Art of Deception

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Tom Stone as entertainer, instructor or consultant is discussed elsewhere.
Tom Stone is an intriguing choice for your motivational or after-dinner speaker. Tom have written a number of best-selling non-fiction books for professional magicians, and have been the main instructor at the courses Magic 1 and Magic 2 at Stockholm University of the Arts. His own studies of how we humans observe the world have made him a recurring guest lecturer at several universities where he describe and illustrate how the brain interpret stimuli and how illusions work scientifically.

Limits of Perception. How come that magic tricks even work? How can you stare straight at something, and still not see it? If you and a friend stand at a mirror, how come you can see your friend’s eyes move, but never your own?

Conjurers have always known there are gaps in the human perception and have based their art on that knowledge. Only just recently, science and cognitive research have begun to examine similar questions, and an overlap have been found in some areas. On some points, scientists and magicians have begun collaborating, to the benefit of both groups.

Tom Stone is one of Europes most innovative and knowledgeable conjurers. In this entertaining talk, he describe and show how he decieve the eye of the observer – well illustrated by amusing magic routines.

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In this extra from the Canadian CBS documentary “The Science of Magic” Tom Stone demonstrates a magic trick to Professor Ronald Rensink (The University of British Columbia ), that Tom have based upon Prof. Rensink’s own discoveries.

The filmmaker explains:
Early in our research we became aware of the work of magician Tom Stone, not only an internationally recognized performer but a writer whose essays examined the work of some of the same scientists we were featuring. We sent one of these researchers, Professor Ronald Rensink, some of Mr. Stone’s essays. He was fascinated by them and told us that perception science had already made new discoveries thanks to the practical understanding magician’s have about how we can be fooled to see things that aren’t there or not see things that are right in front of us. He commented that Mr. Stone was detailing perceptual phenomena still unknown by perception science.

This mutual interest between scientist and magician captured the essence of our film, and presented a possibility that we very much wanted to explore in our documentary and led us to invite Tom Stone to join us in Canada for our filming. His performance, his interchange with Professor Rensink, his insights and observations about magic and science have formed an interesting and important part of our film.

-Daniel Zuckerbrot
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