This exhibition seeks to blur the boundaries between science and art, the physical and the virtual, medicine and health. It is part science museum, part art gallery, and part trade show exploring the use of immersive, whole body interactive technologies to reveal new truths and new tools.

The title, Metamersion, is an amalgam of the concept of metamers: perceptually indistinguishable stimuli with distinct physical characteristics, and immersion: a state of deep and uninterrupted mental involvement.

Metamersion will be the first public event to be held in the future new Centre of Champalimaud Foundation, located in a warehouse complex close to the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. This event aims to introduce the innovative concept behind the future Centre, which connects fundamental neuroscience research to human health. It will open an opportunity to revolutionize medicine, leveraging world class behavioral neuroscience and technology to create a new arm of medicine, integrated with existing approaches.

The exhibition is FREE and will feature seven installations of science, technology and art, open to the public.

Augenblick by Lunar Ring: The installation uses AI-mediated, real-time “style transfer” to explore new forms of interaction between creative humans and machines. The algorithm used in this piece was developed in the context of neuroscience research investigating how the brain processes the visual world.

Haita by Tupac Martir: Haita is born from imagining how a dancer’s choreography could be explored from the inside-out, using recordings and images from within the human body, recast into new forms within virtual environments.

Live dance performance: daily at 9:30pm

At the beach by Werner Haas: A collection of pictures taken systematically from a window towards people on the beach. The low resolution combined with post production digital intervention converts photographs into a kind of dance of human behavioral notation, an evocative ethogram, the meaning and intentions of which are revealed to us through postures and gestures.

Polylith, collaborative work by Champalimaud Neuroscience Research: Polylith are a triptych of interactive installations that aim to simulate a deep and compelling connection to various naturalistic environments. The experiences are mediated by body tracking technology, which allows the simulation of parallax, and through generative art based on AI algorithms. Closing the loop between the machine and the observer, the viewer is invited to let go of the physical world and fall into a virtual one, where new realities can be flexibly generated to study and shape internal states of mind.

Mindpod - M Squared Health by Mindmaze: Research indicates that people with neurological injuries and diseases benefit from greatly increased doses and intensities of behavioural intervention. A highly engaging animated gaming experience – based on evidence and prescribed protocols – MindPod Dolphin is designed to promote the recovery of motor skill and cognitive function.