Friday, March 13, 2015 - 6PM
Italian Cultural Institute - 686 Park Avenue - New York

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We tune up engines and hack computers to improve their performances. What if we tuned up a book? Altering its structure and content, magical things may happen: volumes with movable parts, pages offering cinematic experiences, images appearing with a blow, non-linear structures to predict the future, pop-up magic shows...

"Magic Books" is an interactive exhibition retracing the story of the secret art of book hacking from Medieval times to our days: an unprecedented collection of design principles through which authors and publishers have activated magical powers out of plain paper. Created by the wonder injector Mariano Tomatis, the exhibition will open on Friday 13th March with a lecture show focused on the Italian influence of the art of book hacking - from the Venetian 17th century mind-reading books to Bruno Munari's magic shows on paper: the spectators will live the double experience of wonder before the magical effects produced by the books displayed and the Cartesian pleasure of discovering the ingenious mechanisms behind the curtains. If you love Books and Magic, this cross-over will amaze you!

The Magic Books will remain on display until March 26
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