Marco Tempest

Marco Tempest ( born December 3, 1964 in Zurich ) is a Swiss, living in New York, international magician and illusionist. His self-chosen artist name is The Virtual Magician ( dt The Virtual Magician ).

More recently, Marco Tempest is primarily reaches a certain global attention relatively quickly on setting short movies on YouTube and other video portals public. But even with traditional magic and as a presenter of live events, he is famous for his audience. Marco Tempest is particularly prominent due to its numerous national TV appearances currently in the Asian region, especially in Korea and Japan, but also in his adopted country, the USA.

The multi-part television series called The Virtual Magician ( dt The Virtual Magician ), the inventor and presenter he is and has been broadcast in over 50 countries, including the German-speaking, represents the intermediate peak of his career dar. addition to the charisma of this series and his Internet activities is known in Germany mainly by individual guest articles or short reports of several TV stations Marco Tempest.

Artistic style

Marco Tempest's work is characterized by a mixture of traditional magic, computer effects and multimedia video art. A typical effect is coined by him, for example, the transfer of a real object or a real person on a screen representation by the person or the object disappears almost in the scene. He calls this " virtual magic".

In particular, in previous stage shows dance choreographies were also a key design element.

Self-marketing

Marco Tempest is since 2006 on viral marketing through the dissemination of striking films on video platforms on the Internet. Meanwhile, over 20 parts of the series " Magic PhoneCam " were published in this way and accessed millions of times. These film clips are filmed with a simple cell phone camera continuously without cutting and not subsequently edited video technology. Nevertheless happen in these movies "magical" things like the sudden overcome greater distances or the growth of goods and thereby exert a great fascination for the viewer. Often these are optical illusions or other manipulations. Although the films appear very amateurish and spontaneous, they are obviously generated some with more effort in teamwork and are meticulously staged. Marco Tempest plays in the movies so far always the main role. At irregular intervals, Marco Tempest and his team published "Exposed " videos ( Making-of versions of the films ) in which will reveal how individual tricks were realized. He shall come back to the proof that his videos actually get along without video editing. Since mid-2007 Marco Tempest is changed to the still more unknown video platform live video and published primarily in areas his video contributions partially exclusive.

TV appearances

Posts and mentions in the German speaking countries ( selection):

  • RTL and ProSieben: reports in the magazines Twilight - The Magazine and Galileo
  • SF 1: Several presentations in the science magazine Einstein
  • WDR TV: Surf Tip in the program Current hour
  • RTL: In the broadcast Unbelievable! The show's oddities
  • SF Swiss Television and 3Sat: documentation " Marco Tempest Magician "

Prizes and awards

According to the company Marco Tempest has received the following awards and accolades:

  • YouTube Video Awards - Best Series Nominee 2006 & 2007
  • Louie Award for outstanding achievement in the art of magic (New York)
  • First place at the "World Cup of Magic " (New York Magic Symposium )
  • Mandrake d'Or Award, l' Académie Française des Illusionnistes (Paris)
  • "Annual Star of Magic Show" Hunter College Auditorium ( New York City )
  • "World Magic Convention Shows" Palais de Beaulieu (Lausanne & Dresden)
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