Art-Science Residency
Shifting perspectives through art and neuroscience

How do we extract meaning from noise? Through shifting audiovisual layers between chaos and coherence, this interactive game explores the fluid and diverse thresholds through which we perceive and understand the world.
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.
Scientist
Nina is a 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.
In a world of constant stimulation, the boundary between chaos and meaning is increasingly blurred. Every day, we are bombarded with sounds, images, and sensations. Meanwhile, we are trying to organize this overwhelming input into understandable patterns almost instinctively. Our collaboration project explores how we navigate this sensory flood. How do we extract meaning from noise? When does information begin to feel coherent, and when does it collapse back into disorder? Most importantly, do we all experience this threshold in the same way? The project takes the form of a build-your-own-adventure game composed of evolving audiovisual material. Through shifting layers of abstraction, participants encounter stimuli that move gradually between chaos and coherence—blurring shapes into legible text, scattered sounds into recognizable speech. By tracing these perceptual thresholds, the game invites reflection on the fluidity and diversity of how we experience meaning in an increasingly complex world.

Art exhibition and symposium
2-4 October 2026
Waag Futurelab, Amsterdam
Free entrance

EXPERIENCE YOUR MIND

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