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Workshop at Cité du Cinéma next April 14th entitled : " Magic : Pratices and Discourses"

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Magie Numérique

Suite au colloque international Magie Numérique, l'association Artefake a publié un article de Sébastien Bazou résumant les réflexions avancées lors des rencontres des 13 et 14 novembre 2017 à l'ENS Louis-Lumière.

Colloque : Truquer, créer, innover. Les effets spéciaux français

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Magic and Philosophy

At the beginning of his conference entitled « Science, Magic and Philosophy », one can read, by Eric Weil’s pen, in order to legitimize his attempt: « Si la science et la philosophie ne se comprennent que sous l’aspect de leur devenir passé – ce qu’on appelle l’histoire, il n’en va pas de même de la magie ; car la magie ne nous vient pas seulement du passé, elle appartient au passé, elle n’est plus, et à notre époque elle se retrouve tout au

Blois Symposium : the program !

Studies of media practices (including artistic practices)have focused increasingly, in the last thirty years, on the concept of dispositif, hoping thereby to find answers to the many questions raised by the whole phenomenon of mediation, defined here as the process that renders sensorially perceivable, in a context of communication, what would be otherwise unperceivable. But the further we pursue this line of inquiry, the more the concept becomes problematic.

Cerisy International Conference 2016 : Machines. Magic. Media !

From Robert-Houdin and Georges Méliès to Abdul Alafrez, Harry Houdini, Howard Thurston, David Copperfield, Jim Steinmeyer, and Marco Tempest, magicians re-examined the process for producing illusions with every optical, accoustic, electric, and (more recently) digital innovation. As far as its secrets are kept, its inner workings remain obscure, and it resists being co-opted and formalized by a medium, every technology that confounds the senses exists as a magic moment.
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