Day 1: Thursday 19.March 2026 

18:00 Public Opening  

Chasing the Dots by Philip Vermeulen

The Exit by Noortje van den Eijnde & Teun Vonk

A Sense of Time by Stratos Bichakis

music: SILX & AMIRUZ

21:30  End

Day 2: Friday 20.March 2026

16:00 

Chasing the Dot by Philip Vermeulen

The Exit by Noortje van den Eijnde & Teun Vonk

19:00 

Day 3: Saturday 21.March 2026

Public Outreach Event

16:00 (30min) Public Talk by Dr. Timo Torsten Schmidt

Art-inspired Science: How Stroboscopic Light can be used to study the brain mechanisms of Hallucinations 

16:30 (30min) Panel Discussion

Philip Vermeulen (Studio Philip Vermeulen) 

Dr. Timo Torsten Schmidt (Freie Universität Berlin)

Chasing the Dot 

Philip Vermeulen, Studio Philip Vermeulen

This immersive light installation examines perception through intense light, saturated colour, and stroboscopic frequency. Within a vast Ganzfeld environment, spatial reference dissolves into continuous chromatic fields. The viewer is submerged in luminous atmospheres that destabilize orientation and depth.

Rhythmic pulses of high intensity light exceed the temporal resolution of the eye, generating afterimages, phantom geometries, and a persistent foveal dot that appears fixed within the gaze. This point is not an object in space but a retinal event, produced by the interaction of colour, contrast, and neural latency. As flicker accumulates, perception begins to decouple from stimulus. Forms seem to hover, fragment, and recombine in midair.

The work exposes vision as an active construction shaped by timing, prediction, and neurological thresholds. Through sustained exposure to strobe light and chromatic saturation, ordinary seeing shifts into a heightened, subtly altered state of consciousness. A minimal optical condition unfolds into a dense perceptual experience, revealing how the brain continuously composes the reality it inhabits.

The Exit

Noortje van den Eijnde, Studio Noralie

Teun Vonk, Studio Tony Spark

The installation stages the experience of transition through light, sound, and spatial design. Visitors enter a darkened environment in which pulsing illumination and low-frequency vibrations gradually reshape the perceived boundaries of the space. Subtle shifts in intensity and rhythm create the impression of movement without physical displacement, evoking a passage from one perceptual state to another.

Rather than presenting a fixed narrative, the work invites introspection and sensory attunement, engaging the viewer in a dynamic interplay between environment, body, and awareness in a state suspended between arrival and departure.

Presented in an early developmental phase, the work reveals its underlying structures and evolving spatial choreography. Timing, intensity, and material configurations remain in active exploration. Experiencing it at this stage offers a rare glimpse into how immersive environments are composed, how perception is guided, destabilized, and recalibrated.

In this sense, The Exit becomes not only a meditation on transition, but also a live investigation into how such experiential shifts are constructed.

A Sense of Time 

Stratos Bichakis, Universität der Künste Berlin

This video installation connects the permanence and ephemerality of sound and light, primordial elements from which our memories and fantasies are woven and modulate our inner worlds. This techno-impressionistic experience combines stroboscopic computer-generated visuals and immersive audio, speaking equally to neurons and humans. Much like the reveries that emerge when gazing at the sky, A Sense of Time invites us into a theater of disappearance where fleeting images and hallucinations reshape our sense of self and consciousness. As beings living under the light of the natural sun, we find in its flares a sanctuary for joy, grief, loss, and connection. But will future societies find comfort beneath myriads of artificial suns? Will they confide their deepest thoughts to virtual moons?

The prototype of A Sense of Time was realised within the framework of Onassis ONX Immersive Proof-of-Concept at Onassis ONX with support from Smart Attica European Digital Innovation Hub.

Location

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin, rooms J30/109, J31/125, J32/102