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[oldboys] Ultrasound Project



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 ^R65 Life
Magazine published a sixteen page photographic reportage called "Drama of
Life Before Birth^T, by the swedish biomedical photographer Lennart
Nilsson. It showed  ^San unprecedented set of colour photographs of human
embryos in their natural state^T. 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^Rs 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@xxxxxxxxxxx

Ultrasound is a project sponsored by http://www.thething.it

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