When science and medicine were ignoring the AIDS crisis, ACT UP used visual campaigns such as performances, sit-ins, videos, posters, and flyers to distribute accurate health and science information about AIDS transmission. ACT UP's use of images to get individuals and the mainstream media to pay attention to the crisis forever changed scientific activism. The impact caused by ACT UP's use of visual culture, rather than other forms of transmitting information, most closely resembles what other example from the book?
A) The nudity of the subject in the anthropometric study of a Chinese man was coded within a scientific discourse that established him as an object for cool and dispassionate study.
B) Despite sonography being a "sound"-based system, the display of the information it gathers has been adapted to conform to photographic and video image conventions.
C) Anatomy Theaters provided entertainment as well as education, creating a spectacle that offered a view into the mysterious borderland between life and death.
D) The facial recognition algorithms used by Facebook or Google are ideologically as well as technologically linked to surveillance systems used by police and investigators.

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Like sonography, ACT UP's use of visual culture utilized a medium that was not traditionally associated with the information being conveyed. Both adapted to conform to established image conventions in order to effectively transmit their message.

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