Haverford College

Sonic Worlds: Art, Science, and Ultrasound: Creative and Medical Applications of Ultrasonic Technologies with Dr. Aisen Caro Chacin

Monday, April 22, 2024

4:30pm

VCAM 102

Haverford College

Dr. Aisen Caro Chacin's research and practice focus on sensory perception, the human-machine relationship, and the technical and philosophical implications of embodiment through artificial bodies and reality 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. She 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 currently producing a series of breathing sheepskin pneumatic sculptures and working on a meditation that considers animal sacrifice, survival, care, trust, and deep breathing exercises advised by pulmonologists, respiratory therapists, researchers, animal caretakers, artists, spiritual guides, neuroscientists, and those facing their own mortality and fighting to survive. This series is at the threshold of life-machine integration, the sculpting of a breath, the sacrifices and ethical implications of animal studies, the confrontation with our own survival, and the hierarchies we place on the value of life.

Organized by Visual Studies and English faculty Matt O'Hare. Supported by VCAM and the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities' Sonic Worlds series.