Join us with an amazing set of artists working on the intersections of Art, Science and Technology! 

Dr. Aisen Caro Chacin

Dr. Adam Zaretsky

Dr. Dann Disciglio

and Angelina Almukhametova

Aisen Caro Chacin, PhD 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.

Adam Zaretsky, Ph.D., is a former researcher at MIT's Department of Biology and an experimental bioartist with over a decade of teaching experience. His art practice critically explores the legal, ethical, social, and libidinal implications of biotechnological materials and methods, with a particular focus on transgenic humans. Known for his engaging, hands-on bioart labs, Zaretsky creates dynamic spaces for bioart production through Wet-Lab Art Practices mixing Ecology, Biotechnology, Non-human Relations, Body Performance, and Gastronomy. Zaretsky stages lively, hands-on bioart production labs.

Dann Disciglio is a transdisciplinary artist who explores notions of naturalism, intelligence, & vitality in biological and abiological systems. Disciglio works with technology, broadly, as both a tool and a material, appropriating and amalgamating discrete components to develop unique technological systems that function as interfaces and prostheses which make his audience attentive to perspectives, vital signals, and temporalities which are normally humanly inaccessible. Disciglio is currently a Visiting Professor of Art & Technology at Lewis & Clark College, where he also serves as the co-direct and curator of the Experimental Art Research (EAR) Forest.  

Angelina Almukhametova (b. Kazan, Russia) is a US-based artist whose work investigates cybernetics and techno-culture through digital and analog technologies set in conversation with each other. Her works are indeterminate systems that manifest as performances, installations and sculptures which are site-responsive. Almukhametova has exhibited works and performed in Europe, US, and Iceland, and has presented her research in Switzerland, Greece, Malta, and the US.