Course Description

With a focus on the creation of functional prototypes and practicing real magical crafts, this class combines theatrical illusion, game design, sleight of hand, machine learning, camouflage, and neuroscience to explore how ideas from ancient magic and modern stage illusion can inform cutting edge technology.
Learning Resource Types
Design Assignments
Media Assignments
Illustration of a sleight of hand trick in magic.
Students learned and performed sleight of hand illusions as an assignment in this course. (Image courtesy of the Crossett Library on flickr. License CC BY-NC-SA.)