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Face Studies, Publications / 5 October 2022

NEW BOOK – “Rostrosferas de América Latina. Culturas, traducciones, mestizajes”, Silvia Barbotto, Cristina Voto and Massimo Leone (eds.)

Just out for the Italian publishing house Aracne (“I Saggi di Lexia”), a new book edited by Silvia Barbotto, Cristina Voto and Massimo Leone, Rostrosferas de América Latina. Culturas, traducciones, mestizajes [Latin America’s Rostrospheres. Cultures, translations, crossbreedings]. The book is available (in Spanish) in OPEN ACCESS. SYNOPSIS ENG This is a volume of semiotics dedicated […]

Face Studies, Publications / 26 July 2022

NEW BOOK – Bruno Surace, “I volti dell’infanzia nelle culture audiovisive: Cinema, immagini, nuovi media”

Just out for the Italian publishing house Mimesis, Bruno Surace’s new book, I volti dell’infanzia nelle culture audiovisive: Cinema, immagini, nuovi media [Infancy’s faces in audiovisual cultures: Cinema, images, new media]. The book is available (only in Italian) in OPEN ACCESS. Synopsis The face of childhood is a cultural object as full of meaning as […]

Face Studies, Publications / 5 March 2022

NEW Special Issue: Sign System Studies, “Cultures of the face”

NEW PUBLICATION Special Issue of SIGN SYSTEM STUDIES dedicated to the “Cultures of the face”, edited by Remo Gramigna and Massimo Leone. DOI: https://doi.org/10.12697/49.3-4 Editorial Introduction: Studying the ‘facesphere’, Massimo Leone, 270-278 PDF Articles The transcendence of the face: A semiotic-linguistic path, Ugo Volli, 279-297 PDF The face of health in the West and the East: […]

Face Studies / 9 February 2022

Sculptures Express Real Human Emotions

Chad Knight is creating impressive 3D drawings. His unique approach to digital sculptures fascinates many people all over the internet. Visual artist skateboarded professionally for 16 years and created special approach to representation of human emotions.

Face Studies / 26 January 2022

FACETS: new research premises in Turin

The FACETS team has settled in its new research premises in Turin.

Face Studies, Press / 14 January 2022

Use of Face masks can make face more attractive

Scholars from Cardiff University conducted a study which suggests that use of face mask makes face more attractive.

Face Studies / 11 November 2021

INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING and ART course by Silvia Barbotto Forzano

During the INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING and ART course created by Silvia Barbotto Forzano students reflected on the generation of images and self-portrait, through a laboratory of Semiotica Applicata ed Implicata. Questioning the self-referentiality and the relationship with photographic equipment, and studying some reference artists / authors, students have created a series (partly presented in class) entitled […]

Face Studies / 14 June 2021

AI for lip sync: danger of deep fakes or the future of video editing

The use of AI technology for lip sync gives fascinating tools for video editing. It can be used in multiple ways according to professor Maneesh Agrawala. The world today is widely familiar with negative effects of deep fakes when videos of politicians or celebrities express something they never said. However the technology can be used […]

Face Studies / 14 June 2021

These people do not exist but users can create realistic photos of them

“This person does not exist” is a project allowing user to generate photos of people who never existed. NVIDIA and Tero Karras designed the AI with a capability of creating very realistic images of human faces. AI allows users to create the photos of the people who never even existed. One can use the tools […]

Face Studies / 9 February 2021

Digital artist Benji mixing faces of celebrities

Digital artist Benji is mixing celebrities faces and creating people who do not exist. Usually, he takes images of two famous people and digitally merges them into one. Each of them looks like a real person. The author says that he likes to mess with people’s heads and see their reactions. Image source Benji Instagram