In 2024, Luis Carr founded BLINDSPOTLAB, an interdisciplinary collective comprising media educators, magicians, and creative coding experts.

They apply magic to teach media literacy and especially information literacy in a vivid and exciting way. Their aim is to develop and share new approaches, methods and educational formats by combining the art of magic and media education. Because just like disinformation and conspiracy narratives, magic is all about deception and the manipulation of perception.

Workshop WHAT DO YOU SEE? 

We, the recipients of information, need to understand the emotional and cognitive mechanisms of why false or speculative information can generate such a resonance in digital information spaces. In their workshop WHAT DO YOU SEE?, they use tricks and illusions from magic to playfully uncover these emotional and cognitive mechanisms. In this way, they make it directly tangible for the participants that and how each of us can be deceived and manipulated.

Website: www.blindspotlab.org