Event 1 | BioArt + Assistive Device Art | Livier Monarrez

Dr. Aisen Caro Chacin speaks on technological devices that carry practical uses for new perceptual abilities. Dr. Chacin was moved by the neuroscientist Paul Bach-y-Rita who argued that the human sensory perception is perceived not through our eyes but our brain (Bach-y-Rita et al.). She was inspired by Daniel Kish, who is blind but can ride a bike. Hence, Dr. Chacin developed the sensory substitution device called the PopMatrix, which allows the individual to perceive an image on the tip of the tongue, which is the most sensitive area, through the feeling of some electrodes on and off. There is sensory substitution in which our brains translate tactile information into visual knowledge (Schneider). 

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Dr. Chacin produced the Play-A-Grill allowing listening to music through our teeth. This device develops a new interactive portal to perceive sound with our teeth through bone conduction. These new models are products of artistic imagination to produce new forms of medical technology. As we learned in the course, artworks like plastination by Gunther von Hagens established the Body Worlds exhibition with art sculptures of human body anatomy (Vesna). Like this plastination artwork, the sensory substitution devices are the platform for generating new medical research directions for health professionals and scientists.

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Moreover, Dr. Chasin mentioned the artist, Stelarc amplified his body by adding an ear on his arm. As mentioned in the lecture, science and art significantly intersect in how bio-art influences new medical technology (Vesna). Therefore, Stelarc’s ear portrays the human body as an art that one can surgically transform with their artistic imagination. Stelarc's motives for his third ear develop from the combination of art and science through the visual depiction of his arm. I greatly recommend my classmates attend this event as it allowed my perspective to change on the future of bio-art technology. This event will give you the ability to open your mind to new ways of developing the plasticity of the mind. 

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Bach-y-Rita, Paul et al. "Seeing With The Brain." International Journal Of Human-Computer Interaction, vol 15, no. 2, 2003, pp. 285-295. Informa UK Limited, https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327590ijhc1502_6. Accessed 23 Apr 2022. 

 

Schneider, Carrie Marie. "Artist Profile: Aisen Caro Chacin". Glasstire, 2013, https://glasstire.com/2013/01/14/artist-profile-aisen-caro-chacin/. 


Vesna, Victoria. "Human Body & Medical Technologies". Medicine + Technology + Art | Lectures, 2022, https://bruinlearn.ucla.edu/courses/129896/pages/unit-4-view?module_item_id=4852512.

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