Jamy Ian Swiss

Jamy Ian Swiss (born January 1, 1953) is an American close-up magician who works primarily with playing cards,[1] a noted historian of magic,[2] and scientific skeptic.[3] He first got into magic at age 7.[4]

Jamy Ian Swiss
BornJanuary 1, 1953
OccupationMagician
Websitehttp://honestliar.com

Magic

Swiss is a sleight-of-hand performer specializing in close-up card magic.[5]

He has spoken and performed across the United States, including for Fortune-500 companies such as Adobe,[6] and for the Smithsonian Institution, as well as for The Magic Castle.[7] He has spoken at The New Yorker Festival.[8] He is a frequent guest speaker at the EG creativity and innovation conference.[9]

His show of intimate sleight-of-hand magic, Magic: Close-up in Concert, ran for six months at the Rainbow Room in New York City.[10][11] It was remounted in San Diego in 2017.[12][13]

Swiss is a co-founder [14] and currently a co-producer and performer for Monday Night Magic,[15][16] New York City's longest running Off-Broadway magic show.[17][18]

In 2000, Swiss presented a one-man show The Honest Liar as part of the New York International Fringe Festival.[19] It was produced by Premiere Productions.[20]

Writing

Jamy Ian Swiss is the author of the essay collections Shattering Illusions, [21][4] Devious Standards [22] and Preserving Mystery, all three of which have been reissued in a combined trilogy boxed set.[23]

He is also a co-author of the companion volume to the PBS documentary The Art of Magic,[24] and the "Explaining Magic" chapter of Visual Explanations[25] by Edward Tufte.[26]

Additionally, he has contributed to, or consulted on, the following books:

  1. Magic for Dummies [27]
  2. Penn & Teller's How to Play with Your Food [28]
  3. American Gods [29] by Neil Gaiman
  4. Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions[30] by Stephen Macknick and Susana Martinez-Conde[31]
  5. Palmer, Amanda (November 11, 2014). The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help. New York: Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 978-1455581085.

Swiss wrote the foreword to, and co-wrote and edited, the monumental two-volume book set entitled The Magic of Johnny Thompson,[32] which details the real secrets of seventy-eight of famed magician Johnny Thompson's most celebrated magic routines.

He writes columns for Skeptic magazine and the quarterly magic journal Antimony. He has written for Genii, the Conjurors’ Magazine since 1994.

Swiss writes a regular column of magic book reviews entitled The Lyon's Den and writes a long-running series called Take Two, which pays tribute to important figures in the history of magic.[33]

Teaching Magic and Consulting

He was a comedy writer and chief magic consultant for Penn & Teller on their television program, Sin City Spectacular, and he was associate producer for 24 episodes.[34] He also served as head writer and associate director for The Virtual Magician starring Marco Tempest, which aired in 45 countries.

He has lectured to magicians in 13 countries.[35] He also created and produces Card Clinic, an "intensive seminar on sleight-of-hand magic with playing cards."[36]

As a mentor, instructor, and consultant to magicians,[37][38] he has been known as "the Simon Cowell of magic." [39]

Scientific Skepticism

A longtime Scientific skeptic, Jamy Ian Swiss has spoken widely to skeptic groups[40] and conferences[41] around the United States.[42][3][43][44][45]

He has been featured in on-stage events about skepticism and magic with Penn and Teller, Ray Hyman, and others.[46]

Swiss is a co-founder of the New York City Skeptics[47] and the National Capital Area Skeptics[48][49] and as a skeptic of the paranormal,[50] he has been a longtime critic of "unethical mentalists" [51] and "psychic con artists" [52] who use "supernatural deceit" for personal gain.

He is an expert on psychic charlatans,[53] and on the intersection of science, magic, and skepticism.[54]

Media Appearances

Print

Swiss has been featured numerous times in The New Yorker,[5][55][56] and in Vanity Fair,[57] Los Angeles Times ,[4] The Washington Post, and New York Press.

TV and radio

Swiss was featured on NPR discussing the art of teaching and preserving magic.[38]

He has created, produced and performed in the Discovery Channel documentary, Cracking the Con Games. He was featured in the TV show Brain Games (National Geographic) "tricking a group of gamblers." [58][59]

He has also appeared in television programs including 48 Hours, the PBS series NOVA, and the PBS documentary The Art of Magic [60] and The Today Show.[61]

Movies and Documentaries

Swiss was the magic designer for the feature film The Fantasticks.[62]

He was the host [63] in the documentary Merchants of Doubt,[64] drawing a parallel between his 'honest' lying and the deceitful lying in politics and business.[65][66]

References
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  5. The Real Work, The New Yorker, March 17, 2008
  6. "How Magic Works – Jamy Ian Swiss". Adobe Research. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
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  21. Swiss, Jamy Ian (2002). Shattering illusions: essays on the ethics, history, and presentation of magic. Seattle, Wash.: Hermetic Press. ISBN 094529641X. OCLC 56537227.
  22. Swiss, Jamy Ian (2011). Devious standards. Seattle, Wash.: Hermetic Press. ISBN 9780945296690. OCLC 756039199.
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  29. Gaiman, Neil (28 February 2019). American Gods. Translated by Faerna, Mónica. Illustrated by McKean, Dave (Primera edición en este formato ed.). Barcelona. ISBN 9788417305635. OCLC 1085652271.
  30. Macknik, Stephen L.; Martinez-Conde, Susana; Blakeslee, Sandra (2011). Sleights of mind: what the neuroscience of magic reveals about our everyday deceptions (1st Picador ed.). New York: Picador. ISBN 9780312611675. OCLC 709674003.
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  32. Swiss, Jamy Ian; Thompson, Johnny (2018). Ben, David; Johnson, Karl (eds.). The magic of Johnny Thompson (1st ed.). Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ISBN 9780987868664. OCLC 1035246460.
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