Great Illusions of the Antiquity
Paper presentation by Miguel Ángel Gea within the framework of the Interactivos?'07: Magic and Technology international seminar (2007)
"Before magic was considered either black or white, or divided into additional categories, there was a time when magicians’ secret knowledge was used to create powers where there were none and fascination for dead matter. Today that knowledge is used for entertainment and our artistic outlook has changed.
This talk will take a quick look at different cultures where the same secret knowledge was seen in different ways and used by charlatans, inventors, shamans, architects, physicists, and magicians, of course." By Miguel Ángel Gea
(Translation by Karen Neller)