Uterus as Interface: Reimagining Artificial Wombs in Marian Sandberg’s Remote
When the eighteenth-century French midwife Angelique du Coudray made her famous “machine”—a cloth obstetric phantom complete with foetal dolls—her purpose was to provide a practical, haptic teaching model to instruct women in midwifery. In contrast, the “birthing machine” made by the contemporaneous Italian modeller Antonio Cartolari represented the uterus as a transparent, technical object. It was intended to train male physicians in the then-new fields of obstetrics and gynaecology.
