How does complexity arise from simple interactions? Emergence, a film by Jácome Armas and Noviki, takes this question as a meeting point between science and artistic inquiry.

Presented at Science & Cocktails at Paradiso, Amsterdam, on 15 September 2026, 
as part of Emergence, Cosmic Origins and Collective Patterns & Digital Culture Festival 2026, as part of Future Fragments presentation, Best of Poland

A film by Jácome Armas & Noviki

Jácome "Jay" Armas is an Azorean theoretical physicist, science event producer and science communicator based in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. He is an associate professor at the University of Amsterdam and an affiliate associate professor at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. His research spans quantum gravity, higher‑dimensional black holes and branes, holography, and the hydrodynamics of soft and active matter; he has also worked on complex systems. Armas founded the international science series Science & Cocktails and edited the interview volume Conversations on Quantum Gravity (Cambridge University Press, 2021). For his outreach work he received the Genius‑prisen of the Danish Association of Science Journalists (2014) and the 2023 Outreach Prize of the European Physical Society High‑Energy Physics Division.

2026