Art-Science Residency
Shifting perspectives through art and neuroscience
Artist-Scientist Pairs
Following the first NeuroNarratives speed dating event, we’re excited to introduce our artist–scientist pairs.
These dynamic duos will collaborate over the coming year, combining their interdisciplinary perspectives to co-create projects that bring neuroscience to the public with artistic practice.
Meet
Olivia Carruba & Sounak Das
Sounak Das
Artist
Sounak is a multimedia artist captivated by the experimental use of media and technology in art. He explores the deeper philosophical and metaphysical implications of technology and human existence in contemporary culture and contributes to developing pedagogy and mentorship to blend speculative tools and techniques for new media storytelling.
Olivia Carruba
Scientist
Olivia is a social neuroscientist, PhD candidate in psychology and social neuroscience at La Sapienza University of Rome. Her research explores how our internal, visceral signals – heartbeat and gastric sensations – profoundly shape how we navigate the world, perceive others, and make social choices. Her work seeks to unravel the intricate dialogue between body and mind, revealing how internal states guide connections we construct with ourselves and others.
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Anaïs Notario Reinoso & Marina Orlova
Anaïs Notario Reinoso
Scientist
Anaïs is a PhD researcher at the University of Amsterdam. Her research work focuses on the long-lasting effects of cannabis consumption during adolescence on brain functioning. Specifically, she is interested in the Prefrontal Cortex, a region of the brain that is in charge of complex tasks such as decision-making and social behaviors.
Marina Orlova
Artist
Marina is an independent dance/theatre maker and tech dramaturg. She has been working with AI on stage, being a mediator between AI engineering logic and theatre apparatus. She is creating anti-disciplinary performances on the crossover of mental health, AI ethics, and Data feminism. Her aesthetics are autofiction, tragicomedy, and absurdism.
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Leila Salvesen & Kurina Sohn
Leila Salvesen
Scientist
Leila is a doctor in cognitive neuroscience. Her research work has primarily focused on dream consciousness, investigating the determinants of oneiric experiences and their relationship to the sensory (dis)connection processes during sleep. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher at VU Amsterdam, exploring the neural signatures of meditative practices and how they may inform predictive brain theories.
Kurina Sohn
Artist
Kurina is a multidisciplinary designer from Korea who is based in Amsterdam. Grounded in comprehensive research, her projects employ a poetic approach to offer fluid and inclusive interpretations of modern realities. She infuses her creations with a deep theoretical understanding of these transformative elements, ranging from collectible design to immersive installations.
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Sara Garofalo & Nieke Koek
Sara Garofalo
Scientist
Sara is a neuroscientist and a professor of psychometrics at the Department of Psychology of the University of Bologna. Her research work focuses on understanding how the human brain responds to external stimuli that, once associated with rewards and punishments, can influence our daily choices. As a science communicator, she writes books, articles, and creates video content for various platforms, including TED and HuffPost UK.
Nieke Koek
Artist
Nieke has always been fascinated by the human body. Her work is a poetic translation of the experience of the body, raising everyday sensations to the level of art. With body awareness as a starting point and through (theoretical) research, a diverse palette of works is realized. The artworks vary from performance to video installation, from wearable to sculpture, and involve illustrative elements of the body in motion.
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Armand Lesecq & Haoyu (Nina) Zhou
Armand Lesecq
Artist
Armand is an interdisciplinary artist and music composer developing a practice in the fields of sound and visual art, art-science, experimental music, and expanded cinema. His research lies at the crossroads between studies of altered states of consciousness, psychophysical phenomena, and the role of mental projections in the process of reality-making.
Haoyu (Nina) Zhou
Scientist
Nina is a third-year PhD student in the Department of Experimental Psychology at Ghent University. Originally from Beijing, China, her research focuses on investigating the use of statistical learning in individual readers, particularly how varying sensitivities to orthographic regularities can impact their reading performance.
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Maartje de Jong & Eleni Kamma
Maartje de Jong
Scientist
Maartje is a scientist at the Netherlands Institute of Neuroscience. She is interested in how our brain makes sense of all the information it receives through our senses. Her researches want to know how our brain uses this information to create a meaningful image of the outside world. An image that serves our needs and goals and guides our behaviors.
Eleni Kamma
Artist
Eleni is a visual artist, researcher, and educator living and working in Maastricht and Brussels. She holds a PhD from Leiden University Academy of Creative and Performing Arts and was a Fine Art Researcher at the Jan Van Eyck Academie. She is currently exploring costume-making as a procedural memory activity and how this contributes to the re-formation of memory and folkloric heritage.
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Leeza Pritychenko & Marieke Klein
Leeza Pritychenko
Artist
Leeza is an Amsterdam-based media artist and animator. Her work spans from VR installations, audio-visual collaborations with musicians and dancers and VJ performances and centers around exploring various aspects of human condition through the lens of digital media and technology, while marrying dark existentialism and the eeriness of the subconscious with storytelling and world-building.
Marieke Klein
Scientist
Marieke is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Radboudumc in Nijmegen. Her PhD research focused on the genetic causes of ADHD and the underlying neurobiology of this disorder. Her main research interest is to uncover how the genetic code, in interaction with environmental factors, shapes the human brain and influences our behavior.
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Leslie Tricoches & Kristina Paustian
Kristina Paustian
Artist
Kristina is a German-Russian artist who is working with film, video installation, and performance. A founding member of medienkunst e.V., she explores experimental formats for time-based media and engages with cultural, anthropological, and sociopolitical themes, including identity, memory, and body politics.
Leslie Tricoches
Scientist
Leslie is a postdoctoral researcher in social neuroscience at Ghent University. During her PhD research, she sought to understand why, from a very young age, the mere presence of a peer modifies our cognitive performance. She currently investigates the effect of coercion and the neuro-cognitive processes leading to prosocial disobedience in civilian and military populations.
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