Rachel Greene on Tue, 11 Nov 2003 17:04:31 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: [oldboys] Ultrasound Project |
this is seriously cool! On Tuesday, November 11, 2003, at 11:00 AM, synner wrote: > > Ultrasound Call for Entries > http://www.thething.it/ultrasound > > Deadline: december 15th, 2003 > > - Ultrasound is a graphic/musical collaborative project. An online and > off line > compilation of high tech visceral narratives, acoustic images and > intimate > connections. Selected contributions will be downloadable and eventually > published in a CD, with an accompanying booklet. > > Deadline: December 15th, 2003 > > -The use of ultrasound in the biopower control circuits changed the > perception > of pregnancy and foetus. During the First World War, high frequency > sound > waves, not audible to the human ear, were deployed extensively in > underwater > surveillance. In the following years research was developed on radar > systems. > Such radar systems were the direct precursors of medical ultrasonic > systems. > The increase in the research and application of ultrasound in > obstetrics and > gynaecology appeared to boom from 1966 onwards. > > -The use of these visualization technologies on female bodies has > dissolved the > borders of the epidermis and turned the maternal biospace in a > spectacle to > screen on ultrasound machines. In the spring of ’65 Life Magazine > published a > sixteen page photographic reportage called "Drama of Life Before > Birth”, by the > swedish biomedical photographer Lennart Nilsson. It showed “an > unprecedented > set of colour photographs of human embryos in their natural state”. > Such images > also marked the birth of the techno-foetus, when it started to become > a fetish, > the icon of life, personhood, nature, origin, identity. It has become > the > favourite weapon in the hands of over-excited anti-abortion groups. > > -In many medical, media and social discussions, the empowerment of the > embryo > coincides with the erasure of the mother’s subjectivity. Her body is > turned > into a public uterus, a comfortable habitat for the embryo, the growing > environment and ecosystem for the foetus, the dark background of the > scan. > > -Ultrasound aim is to explore these narratives of detachement through > images > and sounds, to produce jamming interferences against the fetish of the > foetus > and its worshippers. Ultrasound invites you to glide in maternal depth > and to > look at it in a different way. > > -Ultrasound is a CD project open to human and non human synthetizers, > (de) > gender music makers, and contributions from any species or space. > > -To send your sounds and vocals contact: synner@thething.it > > Ultrasound is a project sponsored by http://www.thething.it > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: oldboys-unsubscribe@lists.ccc.de > For additional commands, e-mail: oldboys-help@lists.ccc.de > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: oldboys-unsubscribe@lists.ccc.de For additional commands, e-mail: oldboys-help@lists.ccc.de