[gender-it] Ultrasound Project Call to Submission
- From: synner <synner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: faces-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:38:01 -0500
Ultrasound Final Call to Submission
Deadline extended to 01.01.04
http://www.thething.it/ultrasound
- 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.
-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@xxxxxxxxxxx
Ultrasound is a project sponsored by http://www.thething.it
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