Melissa Robison_Classwork : January 2013

Glasstire.com
Artist Profile: Aisen Caro Chacin
http://glasstire.com/2013/01/14/artist-profile-aisen-caro-chacin/3-chart/

The work of Aisen Caro Chacin caught my attention with the photographs that appear next to the introduction of the article, as I read more about what she is working with I was completely intrigued by her ideas. The combination of art, biology, and physics is a concept that my husband and I have actually discussed, but we had no idea that there was already an artist implementing those types of ideas. In the article Chacin explains how she has been able to merge three completely different areas of study into amazing pieces of mechanical and audible art through sensory substitution,the act of having the input come in through one sense but is then translated in such a way that the output affects a different sense all together. Her most publicized invention is a neat little gadget rightfully named “Play-a-Grill” which is a bone-conduction-hearing device that is placed in the users mouth, after the device is placed on the teeth and activated the vibrations travel from the boney structures of your mouth to become sound waves that can be heard by the users ears. This is just one of the several different projects Chacin is working on, some of her other work like the Spoon Matrix and Pop Matrix which will allow the user to see images when the device is placed on the tough. Another of her high tech pieces are Echolocation Headphones as the goggles themselves block wearer’s vision and forces the person to navigate a space through sound reflection. With so many technological advances it seems that we should see and influx in creative options now available to the art world and Chacin is right in the midst a very new medium and she is now paving the way for more of the futuristic artists among us.