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YOU’LL HAVE TO LOOK TWICE AS NEW MIND-BENDING
ILLUSION EXHIBIT AT LIBERTY SCIENCE CENTER OPENS FEBRUARY 4
“ILLUSION: NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS” MAKES NORTHEAST DEBUT IN
JERSEY CITY
Jersey City, New Jersey –
Is anything really as it seems? Don’t
believe everything you see and hear in the world of ILLUSION –
the new mind-bending exhibition opening at Liberty Science
Center on February 4. Making its Northeast debut, ILLUSION:
Nothing Is As It Seems provides
perception-shattering insight into the human mind while
playfully combining the techniques used by magicians and
explored by psychologists.
ILLUSION investigates
how perception defines the way we see, feel, think and
understand the world. Visitors will question their reality
and their perceptions of the world as their senses become
distorted and logical thinking mystified.
“We’re
excited to welcome the new Illusion exhibit to Liberty
Science Center,” said Paul Hoffman, President and CEO of
Liberty Science Center. “Magic and science are
intertwined, and LSC is the first museum with a
Magician-in-Residence, David Blaine. The Illusion exhibit
proves how easily the human mind can be fooled by combining
magic with psychology, optical illusions with scientific
reasoning, and confusion with clarity.”
Visitors will experience a variety of installations in the
exhibition, created by Science Gallery at Trinity College
Dublin, that will deceive their eyes and show that what they
perceive is often radically different from the reality of
what their eyes observe.
The Invisible Eye will
allow you to see an eyeball construct itself from thin air,
and you can gaze into a mirror and morph into your inner
animal at All
the Universe is Full of the Lives of Perfect Creatures. Delicate
Boundaries creates
a space that allows the worlds inside our digital devices to
move into the physical realm as bugs crawl off the screen
and onto your body, and Counter, using
a trompe
l’oeil effect,
tries to convince us that a two dimensional object is
actually three dimensional.
Other experiences will offer further insight into the human
mind through the exploration of sensory deception. Audio
illusions will conjure the sounds of another space with
visitors being able to experience a virtual
haircutthrough sensory stimulants, while Significant
Birds explores
the way the human ear perceives complex sounds and the sound
of a voice.
ILLUSION will
be at Liberty Science Center from February 4 through August
27, 2017, and is included with general admission tickets
($21.75 for adults, $18.75 for seniors 62+, and $17.75 for
children ages 2-12). Museum members and children under 2 are
free.
About Liberty Science Center
Liberty Science Center (LSC.org)
is a 300,000-square-foot not-for-profit learning center
located in Liberty State Park on the Jersey City bank of the
Hudson near the Statue of Liberty. Dedicated to bringing the
power, promise, and pure fun of science and technology to
people of all ages, Liberty Science Center houses 12 museum
exhibition halls, a live animal collection with 110 species,
giant aquariums, a 3D theater, the world’s largest IMAX Dome
Theater, live simulcast surgeries, a tornado-force wind
simulator, K-12 classrooms and labs, and teacher-development
programs. More than 250,000 students visit the Science
Center each year, and tens of thousands more participate in
the Center’s offsite and online programs. LSC is the most
visited cultural institution in New Jersey with
650,000 visitors annually and the largest interactive
science center in the NYC-NJ metropolitan area.
About Science Gallery
Science Gallery is an award-winning initiative pioneered by
Trinity College Dublin aimed at igniting the creative
potential of young people globally to tackle the world's
biggest challenges. We do this by creating compelling
transdisciplinary experiences around future-focused
universal themes, from the future of the human race to the
future of play. These experiences are fuelled by the
expertise of creative minds that include scientists,
researchers, students, artists, designers, inventors,
hackers and entrepreneurs. In 2012, Science Gallery
International was launched with the support of Google.org.
This initiative will create a Global Science Gallery Network
by 2020, with galleries already confirmed for three
continents — Europe (Dublin, London and Venice), Asia (Bengaluru)
and Australia (Melbourne). To date, exhibitions have toured
internationally to more than a dozen locations, from San
Diego to Taiwan. For more information about Science Gallery,
visit: international.sciencegallery.com |