Schering Stiftung

Workshop 

Photo: Laila Kaletta

The Science of Dreaming

Lecture & Conversation

Photo: Laila Kaletta

The Science of Dreaming

Lecture & Conversation

Date:

June 26, 2026, 6–8 pm

Venue:

Project Space Schering Stiftung
Unter den Linden 32-34
10117 Berlin

No registration required. Limited Capacity.

In English.


Neuroscientist Dr. Adam Haar Horowitz, who has collaborated with artist Nicole L’Huillier for many years, will give a lecture on June 26, 2026, as part of the exhibition Rehearsal Room. Following the lecture, he will speak with Nicole L’Huillier about their collaborative work; the discussion will be moderated by Dr. Christina Landbrecht.

One third of human life is spent asleep. For neuroscientist and DUST founder Adam Haar Horowitz, sleep is not only an object of scientific inquiry but also a medium for creativity and discovery. His research focuses on the hypnagogic state—the threshold between wakefulness and sleep—where the mind produces ideas that are associative, fluid, and less constrained by logic. In his lecture, Horowitz will discuss both his research and the tools he has developed to detect and guide this unique state of consciousness.

 

Adam Haar Horowitz, PhD, is a neuroscientist, designer, and founder of DUST, the company pioneering the field of Dream Engineering. His research explores how dreams shape memory, creativity, emotion, and wellbeing, and how emerging technology can safely and meaningfully interface with the sleeping mind.

Adam holds a PhD from MIT, where he co-created the first targeted dream-incubation devices at the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces Group. He is jointly affiliated with the Dream Engineering Lab at Université de Montréal’s Department of Psychiatry and Harvard Medical School’s Center for Sleep and Cognition. His work bridges neuroscience, mental health, and culture, appearing in Nature, Science, The New York Times, BBC, NPR, Stanford HAI, and global art institutions such as the MIT Museum, LUMA, Tribeca, and CPH:DOX. Through DUST, Adam leads a multidisciplinary team building tools that help people explore, understand, and shape their inner landscape through the science of dreams.

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Nicole L’Huillier (b. 1985) is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher from Santiago, Chile. Her practice centers on exploring sounds and vibrations as construction materials to delve into questions of agency, identity, collectivity, and the activation of a vibrational imagination. Her work materializes through installations, sonic/vibrational sculptures, custom-made (listening and/or sounding) apparatuses, performances, experimental compositions, membranal poems, and writing. She holds a Ph.D. in Media Arts & Sciences from MIT (2022). Her work has been shown at the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts (2025), 14a Bienal do Mercosul (2025), 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2024), Tabakalera Donostia (2025), Kunsthalle Bern (2024), Ming Contemporary Art Museum (McaM), Shanghai (2023), ifa-Gallery Stuttgart (2023), Bienal de Artes Mediales Santiago (2023, 2021, 2019, 2017), Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2022), transmediale, Berlin (2022), Ars Electronica, Linz (2022, 2019, 2018), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Santiago de Chile (2022), 6th Ural Industrial Biennale, Ekaterinburg (2021), and 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2018), among others.

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