Science Art

Brainwave Control is an interactive installation where participants collaboratively create a shared musical environment without needing technical training. Each participant plays a distinct sound module while wearing a bio-sensor; their live brainwaves transform the audio in real time, allowing their internal biology to actively shape the external soundscape.

Anchored by a three-projection environment that displays scientific imagery of firing neurons alongside real-time data and visualization of the participants' neural patterns, the work fuses neuroscience, technology, and sound. While independent minds control independent modules, the generative process remains obscure, mirroring the mystery of cognition itself.

As participants surrender to the uncontrollable fluctuations of their own biology, their distinct sounds intersect into a cohesive harmony. The piece reveals the beauty of how processes beyond our conscious understanding can give rise to a unified, collective experience.

With special thanks to Alain Chédotal, brilliant researcher, innovator, and collaborator.

Science Art is a practice in which artistic expression engages directly with scientific inquiry by honoring it, interpreting it, and giving it poetic form. Using new technological tools, traditional research methods, and real scientific data, Visceral Design translates complex scientific processes into immersive artistic and musical experiences.

Ask someone on the street to name five living scientists. Most cannot. Yet scientific and philosophical inquiry is essential to the future of humanity. Science Art seeks to bridge this gap by bringing science into culture, making it visible, tangible, and emotionally resonant.

Working at the intersection of art, technology, science, and philosophy, Visceral Design transforms scientific data such as brainwaves, bacteria, cells, movement, and physical interaction into immersive sound and interactive experiences. Alongside installation work, Visceral Design also performs electronic music that fuses EDM, sitar, world music, and scientific imagery.

As a science artist, Tyler Kaufman has participated in science lab residencies and continues to collaborate with scientists, technology specialists, artists, and universities worldwide, including the University of Lille, FEMTO-ST Institute, Harvard University, Berklee College of Music, and Stanford University, among others.

Kaufman has presented interactive installations and performed across Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Poland, Spain, S. Korea, India, the UAE, and the United States. Under the name Visceral Design, which has evolved into a collective, Kaufman collaborates with scientists, technologists, programmers, researchers, musicians, and cultural institutions.

Scientific research and new technological developments become the raw material and inspiration, shaped through sound and artistic imagination until they cross into art.

Images done and used in real scientific labs from across the world

Discover the first reality show for bacteria!

MICRO-RESIDENCE QUARANTINE created by TakT is an installation that presents the first microscopic reality TV show. The work combines a physical installation with moving color elements, forming a science art piece that explores sociological and psychological responses to quarantine. It invites audiences to reconsider isolation from the position of an observer looking in.

Within the installation, participants observe and compare the lives of two different samples of harmless bacteria, selected in collaboration with scientists and studied within an actual biology laboratory. These microscopic ecosystems are translated into dynamic color fields and temporal changes, allowing the audience to witness how the organisms evolve, adapt, and respond while competing for survival.

By shifting scale and perspective, the installation reflects on isolation, surveillance, and coexistence, using microbial life as a parallel for human behavior under quarantine.

Le TouT is an interactive science-art installation which includes sight, touch, smell, sound and temperature.

This installation is able to capture the movement of the audience and send physical sensations in their fingers and hands using haptic feedback (which feels almost like a type of braille). The audience also gets to compose their own beautiful music as part of the discourse.

Here is a throwback of one of TakT's showings at the Salon d'Automne in Paris where Tyler Kaufman & Adèle Tilouine were fortunate enough to win "Les Amis du Salon d'Automne" prize.

(Made with TakT) This is a demo of what the audience can create when they choose the world of "Destruction".

Live science-art performance for 10,000+ neuroscientists at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies Forum in Paris. Brain scan visualizations synchronized with live electronic music.