Aisen Caro Chacin is a regenerating composition of cells that produce a woman, a Venezuelan, a Spaniard, a U.S. American, and an animal whose patterns of migration are not based on seasons, but rather chance, chaos, and opportunity.
She is an artist and leads the medical prototyping lab at the University of Texas Medical Branch and is an Assistant Professor in Pathology at the School of Medicine. She is Adjunct Faculty at the School of Art at the University of Houston, where she also received her BFA. She is a founding board member of the Medicine and Arts Program at UCLA and holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons the New School where she was a teaching fellow. She received her Ph.D. in Human Informatics from the University of Tsukuba, Japan.
Dr. Chacin's research and practice focus on sensory perception, the human-machine relationship and integration, and the technical and philosophical implications of embodiment and incorporation through artificial bodies and realities in a time of conscious evolution. Her work is an intersection of new media artworks, human-computer interfaces, medical devices, and Assistive Device Art (ADA), encompassing sound art, interfaces for sensory substitution, resuscitation, human echolocation, haptics, medical automation, surgical simulation, and fashion.
Her work has been presented and exhibited at Ars Electronica, Cite du Design, TEI, NIME, NYC Museum of Art and Design, The New York Hall of Science, and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, among others. Featured as an inventor in Future Tech by Discovery Channel, Creative Applications, FastCo, Time Techland, Engadget, and NY Times, and was awarded and published by PopSci.
She is also a bucket of ideas open to merge and exchange with other buckets.
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