Listen "#3 Jeanette Andrews - What Magic Teaches Us About Beliefs & Polarization"
Episode Synopsis
Jeanette Andrews is a New York–based artist and magician whose work bridges illusion, installation, and conceptual art. Her performances function as live thought experiments — multisensory investigations into perception, cognition, and belief. Jeanette Andrews is a New York–based artist and magician whose work bridges illusion, installation, and conceptual art. Her performances function as live thought experiments — multisensory investigations into perception, cognition, and belief. She has presented commissioned works with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Québec City Biennial, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, among many others, and has been affiliated with Harvard’s metaLAB and held a fellowship with MIT’s Center for Art, Science and Technology.More from Jeanette Andrews:Website: https://www.jeanetteandrews.com/Instragram: https://www.instagram.com/jeanetteandrewsmagic/Timestamps:0:00 – What Is Magic, Really?5:15 – The Power of Framing: How Context Impacts Perception11:47 – Consensual Deception: When We Agree to Be Fooled13:12 – Magic, Manipulation, and the Ethics of Belief19:04 – The Real Purpose of Illusion24:58 – What Magic Reveals About the Mind and Perception26:37 – Where Art Meets Philosophy and Science35:00 – Deception, Bias, and the Architecture of Belief40:06 – How Magicians Exploit (and Expose) Our Cognitive Traps46:40 – A Live Experiment in Cognitive Magic50:01 – Inside Jeanette Andrews’ MIT Project The Attestation1:05:20 – [Announcement] What Is Coming Next For Jeanette Andrews
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