As an MIT Center for Art Science & Technology Visiting Artist, magician Jeanette Andrews collaborated with faculty members Graham M. Jones and Arvind Satyanarayan to explore concepts of metacognition, combining acts of magic with a study of the visual and social systems that guide human behavior.

Visit to Graham Jones’s class: 21A.520 Magic, Science, and Religion

As part of her fall 2025 campus residency, Jeanette Andrews visited Graham Jones’s class where cross-cultural perspectives on magical practices are explored and students design and perform their own illusions.

The Attestation Performance

Andrews’s experiential performance The Attestation: A Performance of Illusions, was presented in MIT Kresge Little Theater in October 2025. By combining acts of magic with a study of visual and social systems that guide human behavior, Andrews invited participants to consider how they arrive at knowledge in the face of uncertainty.

More information at arts.mit.edu/jeanette-andrews/