It could be Light by M. John Harrison. It came out in 2002, but that's not too far from the 90s, and although Harrison has been writing SF since the '60s or '70s, I think his best known work is the Viriconium sequence which is a fantasy (although technically it's SF).
Light has three separate subplots, one of which involves a couple of scientists. One of them is a serial killer who is visited by the "Shrander", who has the head of a dead horse.
It has a scene where a cat sees a screen with fractals on it, which might be like static:
a cascade of fractals like a bird's wing, so tiny Kearney barely
noticed it. But the female oriental, whose sensory-motor uptake times
had been engineered by different biological considerations, was off
his shoulder in an instant. She approached the screen, which was now
blank, and batted it repeatedly with her front paws.
Another subplot involves the pilot of a spaceship who had been built into the ship. The ship's AI was called the Mathematics.
It's the first in a trilogy that loosely revolve around an area of space called the Kefahuchi Tract where physics breaks down.
It's been a long time since I read it so I may have some of the particulars wrong.
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