Ultrasound Project

[Sofia Bustorff]

hope all is well. i loved the picture from dru. 
thought of you on your performance, and wish we 
see each other soon someplace. love, s


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>Ultrasound Call for Entries
>http://www.thething.it/ultrasound
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>Deadline: december 15th, 2003
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>- 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.
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>Deadline: December 15th, 2003
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>-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.
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>-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.
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>-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.
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>-Ultrasound is a CD project open to human and non human synthetizers, (de)
>gender music makers, and contributions from any species or space.
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>-To send your sounds and vocals contact: synner at thething.it
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>Ultrasound is a project sponsored by http://www.thething.it
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