Ultrasound - Call for Entries

elektro80 · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 12:40 am Post subject: Ultrasound - Call for Entries

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

seraph · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 4:39 am Post subject:

I don' get it Exclamation

Am I dumb or it's gibberish Question

seraph · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 4:49 am Post subject:

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that's me before the last update

elektro80 · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 5:26 am Post subject:

This is art. You are not supposed to understand it. And get that brain back where it is supposed to be! You hear!!! Shocked

seraph · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 6:29 am Post subject:

elektro80 · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 6:45 am Post subject:

aaaaaagh.....

Shocked

get back into one piece will you?

seraph · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 1:34 pm Post subject:

CHANNELIZATION APPARATUS SCRAMBLED
UNITY AT RISK
PLEASE RESTART OR ART WILL BE PRODUCED IN MASS QUANTITIES

The apparatus is an interiorization of force, its capture (regimentation, channelization) in the name of unity, it may be of various sizes and shapes, without a top cover or bottom, having at one of these extremities a wooden strip. Any capture leaves traces. As Foucault has shown, it is possible to use those traces to chart "genealogies" of institutions. It is possible to write history having in its interior a Compulsor that is, an electric fan of high speed rotation, and in front of it, a PHOTOPHOR 9 of great intensity. This Photophor can be placed on top of the machine as well, and the Compulsor, in the interior of Box if double channelization is desired, but only if rupture is given precedence over continuity.

seraph · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 1:51 pm Post subject:

YOU ARE WHAT YOU IS

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Conehead refers to a series of sketches (and ultimately a bad movie) from the formerly humorous (and therefore formerly popular) US comedy TV show, "Saturday Night Live" (SNL). The Coneheads (which were primarily an invention of SNL writer/actor Dan Aykroyd, who also played the part of Beldar Conehead) were aliens from the planet Remulak and were generally characterized by: A large cone-shaped head; a tendency to eat things (including record albums and other unusual things like fiberglass) in large quantities (a visitor to the Conehead household inevitably was invited to "consume mass quantities" of potato chips and beer); and a predilection for using lots of large synonyms for otherwise "normal-sounding" things and always spoken in a rapid, clipped monotone. For example, where we would say "Bacon and eggs", a Conehead would say "Shredded swine flesh and chicken embryos".

elektro80 · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 2:10 pm Post subject:

Man, do I love the internet! Very Happy