XPECTACULO XSCAPE Project. A magic show on material minds. Salón Teatro Santiago de Compostela 2023

XSCAPE Project an ERC Synergy Grant on Material Minds. Video recorded at the time of the XPECTACULO XSCAPE Project. A magic show on material minds. Salón Teatro, Santiago de Compostela, May 25, 2023. In this show, one of the best Spanish magicians and theorists of magic, Miguel Ángel Gea, participated, as well as Jordi Camí, who is a neuroscientist, amateur magician and one of the most relevant people in Spanish science management. And Luis M. Martínez of the Institute of Neurosciences (joint centre of CSIC and UMH) participated as part of the show. The main research question of the XSCAPE Project is, in short: Do the worlds we build alter our mind? ERC-2020-SyG 951631 – XSCAPE Project 'Material Minds: Exploring the Interactions between Predictive Brains, Cultural Artefacts, and Embodied Visual Search'. Material Minds (acronym XSCAPE) is an ERC Synergy Grant project, as announced by the European Research Council on Nov 5, 2020. Material Minds Lab is the experimental facility of the XSCAPE Project based in INCIPIT-CSIC in Santiago de Compostela. The PIs of XSCAPE are Felipe Criado-Boado (corresponding PI) of the INCIPIT-CSIC, Luis M. Martínez-Otero of the Institute of Neurosciences (joint centre of CSIC and UMH), Andy Clark, of the Departments of Informatics and Philosophy of the University of Sussex, and Johannes Müller, of the Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology of Kiel University.

Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio. Institute of Heritage Sciences. INCIPIT-CSIC. ERC Synergy Grant. European Research Council. XSCAPE Project. XPECTACULO. Magic show. Salón Teatro Santiago de Compostela. Material Minds. Predictive Brains. Cultural Artefacts. Embodied Visual Search. CSIC-UMH - Instituto de Neurociencias (IN). University of Sussex. Universität Kiel.