Interestingly (someone told me) that those artifacts and the videos especially can remind one of psychedelic hallucinogens.

There seems to be some shockingly similar transformations, patterns and artifacts with other, related projects as well, including color patterns, movement, things melting or merging into each other etc.

There is a ton of computation happening in the visual cortex. If disturbing it, connecting different things or "seeing behind the curtain" matches some of these visual computing projects then I think we're onto something.