Invitation you to join us in celebrating the life of
Martin Gardner
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on the occasion of what would have been his 96th birthday on the evening of
Saturday, 23rd October 2010.
Games, Puzzles, Mazes!
All sorts of very very cool interactive and recreational stuff for the
mind. Puzzles, mazes, games, virtual reality, etc. So, much fun!
Help Build an Amazing and Enormous Tower Flower Orgami
Origami master Chris Palmer will lead people through building an
amazing Tower flower. See the video here:
http://www.vimeo.com/15692564
Help Build an Amazing Geometrical Zometool Structure
Zometools is a plastic construction set which lets you quickly and
easily build edge models of many complex polyhedra. The range of
things which can be built with edges goes far beyond what you can
build as paper models. The structured design of the parts guides you
into making things that you didn't know that you could make. Team
leaders will lead a volunteers into making some pretty amazing large
scale structures.
Out of Body Experience
Al will demonstrate the amazing "out of body" and amazing Time Freeze
Illusion. You will really have an out of body experience. Time will
Freeze! This is an amazing effect!
On Display:
* Martin Gardner's personal collection of books related to Charles
Dodgson, who wrote under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll. Gardner wrote
the classic bestseller The Annotated Alice.
* A large collection of autographed books by Martin Gardner
* An incredible collection of prize-winning origami by Robert Lang
and Chris Palmer
* A very large assortment of puzzles, illusions, and physics toys
to play with.
* Incredible Impossible Objects and Bottles by International
Master Jeff Scanlan
* Various fun objects that belonged to Martin Gardner.
Magic
There will be an assortment of world-class magicians performing at this event.
Special Guest of Honor
Nolan Bushnell, the Founder of Atari, and considered "the father of
computer gaming and entertainment" will be a featured guest. Bushnell
has been inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame and the Consumer
Electronics Association Hall of Fame, received the BAFTA Fellowship
and the Nations Restaurant News “Innovator of the Year” award, and was
named one of Newsweek's "50 Men Who Changed America." Bushnell has
started more than twenty companies and is one of the founding fathers
of the video game industry. He is currently the founder and CEO of
uWink, a game-based restaurant startup, and the Chairman of the board
at NeoEdge Networks, an advertising-based video game company. Nolan
will be bringing some wonderful new electronic games for you to enjoy!
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Synapse Artist-in-Residence - Deakin University
http://www.deakin.edu.au/itri/cisr/projects/hear.php
Honorary Visiting Professor - Sussex University
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html
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