[oldboys] Ultrasound Project

> From: synner <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue Nov 11, 2003 11:00:02 AM US/Eastern
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [oldboys] Ultrasound Project
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>
> 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