Face Studies

Just out for the Italian publishing house Aracne (“I Saggi di Lexia”), a new book edited by Cristina Voto, Elsa Soro, José Luis Fernández and Massimo Leone: Rostrotopías. Mitos, narrativas y obsesiones de las plataformas digitales [Facetopias. Myths, Nostalgias, and Obsessions of the Face in the Digital Metaverse]. The book is available (in Spanish) at this […]
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FACETS has produced its first videogame – and it’s an investigative one! Credits to FACETS Post-Doc Gianmarco Giuliana for having directed its creation. SOFIA is an acronym, standing for “Social Media and Faces in Artificial Intelligence”. The game can be freely downloaded HERE.
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Here’s the full program of the advanced seminar in Philosophy of Communication, 2022-2023, “On Filters and Philters”, organized by Massimo Leone at the University of Turin. With the participation of Bruno Surace, Auli Viidalepp, Natasa Lackovic, Federico Bellentani, Neyla Pardo, Giorgia Aiello, Gaia Giorgi, Niccolò Monti, Silvia Barbotto F, Lia Morra, Michele Cerutti, Marilia Jardim, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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: […]
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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.
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