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Boca Museum Of Art’s New Exhibit from page 20 Two timely experiences will confront museumgoers in prove a supernatural or
this exhibition: one is an artwork by Jacob Hicks utilizing paranormal ability under
Imponderable, Oursler’s cinematic 5-D experience, ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence, and the other is a video about agreed-upon scientific
has only been exhibited at MoMA in New York and was deepfakes edited by the museum team. The new artwork by testing criteria.
created using Pepper’s Ghost, a mirror illusion technique Hicks allows viewers to ask questions to a virtual magician More than a thousand
first used in the 1800s in theatrical ghost plays. Other and receive answers generated by the ChatGPT A.I. Jacob people applied to this
installations in Oursler’s Creature Features landscape Hicks trained the ChatGPT A.I. to imagine itself as an ancient challenge between
include: Fairy (a fantasy projection of a performance by entity capable of telling the future, to be aware that it is an 1964 and 2015, but
Katiana Rangel); Cardiff Giant (Oursler’s never-before- art project, and to be aware that Hicks wants it to present none were successful.
seen life-size recreation of one of the most famous as a false persona. For the deepfakes video encounter, the Randi originally defined
archaeological hoaxes in American history); Flatwoods museum team will regularly update a video screen titled himself as a conjuror
Monster (a re-living of the 1952 legendary UFO DEEPFAKE-O-RAMA with the latest deepfakes in the and began his career
extraterrestrial folklore encounter); Alice Cooper Head political news cycle during the run of the exhibition. as a professional stage
(inspired by The Amazing Randi’s infamous creations The museum commissioned the artist Jeanette Andrews magician and escape-artist
for Alice Cooper’s concert tour in the 1970s); Crystals (also a professional magician) to create a new interactive in 1946. In later years he
(created in part with artificial intelligence, exploring the work titled magi.cia.n, inspired by the recently declassified preferred to call himself The Exhibition, by Stephen
digital divine, 5-D technology, near-death experiences, CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception, written by two a skeptical educator, and Berkman, Zohar Studios.
and hallucinogenic states), and more. professional magicians. She created a “clean room” in the was a MacArthur Fellow Albumen print.
museum – an enclosed, transparent box with two holes “Genius Grant” winner.
equipped with gloves used by the viewer to flip through a He maintained that magicians are honest liars because the
blank journal that visually transforms into a magic book and audience is in on the deception. The section in the “Smoke
then into a spy craft technical manual before one’s very eyes. and Mirrors” exhibition honoring the life of The Amazing
The installation, surrounded by black curtains, also includes Randi includes ephemera from his storied career, including
a video in which Andrews oscillates between her intricate his numerous television appearances on NBC’s Tonight Show
sleight-of-hand as a stage magician, and then into a CIA agent Starring Johnny Carson, and never-before-seen curiosities
that uses the same skills for espionage in the real world. from Randi’s lifelong collection of arcana, including his tour
The exhibition also features an homage to one of the with the wildly theatrical 1970s rock star Alice Cooper.
most notorious investigators of the paranormal, James Randi About The Museum
(a.k.a. The Amazing Randi, 1928 to 2020). Randi lived near Founded by artists, the Boca Raton Museum of Art
the Boca Raton Museum with his husband and life partner was established in 1950 as the Art Guild of Boca Raton.
Imponderable, by Tony Oursler. Film still, 5-D feature-length of 34 years, the artist Jose Alvarez D.O.P.A. Randi was The organization has grown, now in its eighth decade, to
film, 90 minutes (2015) known for sponsoring the One Million Dollar Paranormal encompass a museum, art school, and sculpture garden.
Challenge, offering one million dollars to anyone who could As one of South Florida’s leading cultural landmarks,
In 2000, Oursler was awarded the U.S. Art Critics the museum provides educational programs and a robust
Association ICA New Media Award. Oursler has been exhibition schedule to the community, and to visitors from
selected for solo exhibitions throughout the United States around the world.
and is currently one of America’s most internationally
exhibited artists (with solo shows in more than 25
countries). Your ad could be here!
Francesca Panetta and Halsey Burgund’s installation
In Event of Moon Disaster was made using sophisticated Call
deepfake technology. In 1969 most of the world celebrated
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exceptions being conspiracy theorists claiming it was
all staged. In this work, Panetta and Burgund ask: What to find out how!
would have happened if the mission had gone wrong? The Amazing Randi

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