David Copper?eld is an American magician, described by Forbes as the most commercially successful magician in history. George Schwartz is Curator at Large, and Tedi Asher is a Neuroscience Researcher (the ?rst such position at an art museum in the United States) at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts. Shannon Taggart is a visual artist whose photographic practice focuses on seances. Tony Oursler is an internationally-renowned video artist represented by Metro Pictures, Lehmann Maupin, and Lisson