MAKING SENSE OF THE IMAGE-MAKING FROM VISUALIZING TO VISIBILIZING THE LIVING MATTER

In order to challenge the iconographic understanding of fetal ultrasound scans - included within the photographic paradigm -, I discuss the intertwining of visual-ity, scientific knowledge, and technology. I argue that image-making in ultrasound practices has a photographic dimension that ought to be questioned in light of the visibilization processes that bring some not-optical inputs into visual outputs. It is the dialogue between post-phenomenologist and enactivist accounts that help us in disentangling the otherwise neglected relations between image-making and sense-making, which ultimately unveils contemporary obsession with visualizing living mat -ter into the human being, for shaping a figure - the fetal one - which does not exist if not in the technological mediation. The question << how does it arrive that a machine is a moral vehicle?>> represents the other side of the exploration of image -making, I argue that the << baby pictures >> respond to moral and ethical reasons that are embodied in the machines themselves.