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December 2023 Viewpointe, Page 31

Boca Museum Of Art’s New Exhibit from page 30 of 34 years, the artist Jose Alvarez D.O.P.A. Randi was
known for sponsoring the One Million Dollar Paranormal
Oursler is one of the world’s foremost pioneers of Challenge, offering one million dollars to anyone who could
video art, working with moving images, installation and prove a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon
projection. His inspirations include conspiracy, mysticism, scientific testing criteria.
narrative evolution and facial recognition technologies. More than a thousand people applied to this challenge
Viewers are often disoriented and disarmed upon entering between 1964 and 2015, but none were successful. Randi
his installations. originally defined himself as a conjuror and began his career
Imponderable, Oursler’s cinematic 5-D experience, has as a professional stage magician and escape-artist in 1946. In
only been exhibited at MoMA in New York and was created later years he preferred to call himself a skeptical educator,
using Pepper’s Ghost, a mirror illusion technique first used and was a MacArthur Fellow “Genius Grant” winner. He
in the 1800s in theatrical ghost plays. Other installations Imponderable, by Tony Oursler. Film still, 5-D feature-length maintained that magicians are honest liars because the
in Oursler’s Creature Features landscape include: Fairy (a film, 90 minutes (2015) audience is in on the deception. The section in the “Smoke
fantasy projection of a performance by Katiana Rangel); and Mirrors” exhibition honoring the life of The Amazing
Cardiff Giant (Oursler’s never-before-seen life-size Randi includes ephemera from his storied career, including
recreation of one of the most famous archaeological hoaxes his numerous television appearances on NBC’s Tonight Show
in American history); Flatwoods Monster (a re-living of the Starring Johnny Carson, and never-before-seen curiosities
1952 legendary UFO extraterrestrial folklore encounter); from Randi’s lifelong collection of arcana, including his tour
Alice Cooper Head (inspired by The Amazing Randi’s with the wildly theatrical 1970s rock star Alice Cooper.
infamous creations for Alice Cooper’s concert tour in the About The Museum
1970s); Crystals (created in part with artificial intelligence, Founded by artists, the Boca Raton Museum of Art was
exploring the digital divine, 5-D technology, near-death established in 1950 as the Art Guild of Boca Raton. The
experiences, and hallucinogenic states), and more. organization has grown, now in its eighth decade, to encompass
In 2000, Oursler was awarded the U.S. Art Critics a museum, art school, and sculpture garden. As one of South
Association ICA New Media Award. Oursler has been Florida’s leading cultural landmarks, the museum provides
selected for solo exhibitions throughout the United States and Imponderable Still 5, by Tony Oursler educational programs and a robust exhibition schedule to the
is currently one of America’s most internationally exhibited community, and to visitors from around the world. 
artists (with solo shows in more than 25 countries). DEEPFAKE-O-RAMA with the latest deepfakes in the
Francesca Panetta and Halsey Burgund’s installation political news cycle during the run of the exhibition.
In Event of Moon Disaster was made using sophisticated The museum commissioned the artist Jeanette Andrews Are You Watching
deepfake technology. In 1969 most of the world celebrated (also a professional magician) to create a new interactive
the Apollo 11 crew’s first successful moon landing, the work titled magi.cia.n, inspired by the recently declassified
exceptions being conspiracy theorists claiming it was all CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception, written by two Your Speed?
staged. In this work, Panetta and Burgund ask: What would professional magicians. She created a “clean room” in the
have happened if the mission had gone wrong? museum – an enclosed, transparent box with two holes
Two timely experiences will confront museumgoers in equipped with gloves used by the viewer to flip through a Please obey all posted speed limit
this exhibition: one is an artwork by Jacob Hicks utilizing blank journal that visually transforms into a magic book and signs throughout Boca Pointe for the
ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence, and the other is a video about then into a spy craft technical manual before one’s very eyes. safety of our residents. As a reminder,
deepfakes edited by the museum team. The new artwork by The installation, surrounded by black curtains, also includes the speed limits are as follows:
Hicks allows viewers to ask questions to a virtual magician a video in which Andrews oscillates between her intricate Boca Pointe Drive 30mph
and receive answers generated by the ChatGPT A.I. Jacob sleight-of-hand as a stage magician, and then into a CIA agent Via de Sonrisa del Norte 25mph
Hicks trained the ChatGPT A.I. to imagine itself as an ancient that uses the same skills for espionage in the real world.
entity capable of telling the future, to be aware that it is an The exhibition also features an homage to one of the Promenade Drive 20mph
art project, and to be aware that Hicks wants it to present most notorious investigators of the paranormal, James Randi SPEEDING FINES ARE
as a false persona. For the deepfakes video encounter, the (a.k.a. The Amazing Randi, 1928 to2020). Randi lived near BEING ENFORCED!! 
museum team will regularly update a video screen titled the Boca Raton Museum with his husband and life partner

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