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/ 8 April 2025

New Book – VOLTO INFINITO, edited by Massimo Leone (March 25, 2025)

The book VOLTO INFINITO is the latest, and last, instalment of the FACETS Digital Press series.

Face Studies

/ 28 December 2023

NEW BOOK – The Hybrid Face. Paradoxes of the visage in the digital era

Face Studies

/ 10 December 2023

NEW Special Section: Semiotica, “The face in the sphere: towards a cultural semiotics of the visage”

Face Studies

/ 17 November 2023

NEW BOOK – “Rostrotopías. Mitos, narrativas y obsesiones de las plataformas digitales”, Cristina Voto, Elsa Soro, José Luis Fernández and Massimo Leone (eds.)

Publications

/ 25 October 2023

Special Issue: The Visage as Text. Physiognomy, Semiotics, and Face-Reading from Antiquity to Artificial Intelligence in Chinese Semiotic Studies

Face Studies

/ 1 October 2023

NEW BOOK – Il volto latente

Face Studies

/ 25 March 2023

NEW BOOK – “ Sémiotique du visage futur”, Gianmarco Giuliana and Massimo Leone (eds.)

Face Studies

/ 20 January 2023

NEW BOOK – “Semiotica e intelligenza artificiale”, Antonio Santangelo and Massimo Leone (eds.)

Events

/ 25 January 2023

FACE IT! – The New Challenge of Cognitive Visual Semiotics

Université de Liege

Face Studies

/ 20 December 2022

SOFIA – FACETS Videogame

Events

/ 16 February 2023

On Filters and Philters (2023 Advanced Seminar)

Face Studies

/ 20 December 2022

6 Vacant Research Positions in Turin

Publications

/ 31 October 2022

NEW BOOK – I cronotopi del volto (Massimo LEONE, Elsa SORO, Cristina VOTO)

Publications

/ 31 October 2022

NEW ARTICLE – Silvia Barbotto, “Trace and Traceability in/of the Face: A Semiotic Reading through Art”

Events

/ 10 October 2022

“Volto, corpo, emozioni e linguaggio” – FACETS-themed event in Catania

Monastero dei Benedettini di Catania

Face Studies

/ 5 October 2022

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

Face Studies

/ 26 July 2022

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

Events

/ 9 June 2022

Face and Chiasmus. Recent insight from cognitive semiotics (Conference in Turin)

Palazzo Nuovo, Torino Prof. Jamin Pelkey

Publications

/ 30 April 2022

New Book IL METAVOLTO

Face Studies

/ 5 March 2022

FACETS CALLS

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law: “The Legal Semiotics of the Digital Face”

FACETS NEWS

New Book – VOLTO INFINITO, edited by Massimo Leone (March 25, 2025)

NEW BOOK – The Hybrid Face. Paradoxes of the visage in the digital era

NEW Special Section: Semiotica, “The face in the sphere: towards a cultural semiotics of the visage”

NEW BOOK – “Rostrotopías. Mitos, narrativas y obsesiones de las plataformas digitales”, Cristina Voto, Elsa Soro, José Luis Fernández and Massimo Leone (eds.)

Special Issue: The Visage as Text. Physiognomy, Semiotics, and Face-Reading from Antiquity to Artificial Intelligence in Chinese Semiotic Studies

NEW BOOK – Il volto latente

NEW BOOK – “ Sémiotique du visage futur”, Gianmarco Giuliana and Massimo Leone (eds.)

NEW BOOK – “Semiotica e intelligenza artificiale”, Antonio Santangelo and Massimo Leone (eds.)

FACE IT! – The New Challenge of Cognitive Visual Semiotics

SOFIA – FACETS Videogame

On Filters and Philters (2023 Advanced Seminar)

6 Vacant Research Positions in Turin

NEW BOOK – I cronotopi del volto (Massimo LEONE, Elsa SORO, Cristina VOTO)

NEW ARTICLE – Silvia Barbotto, “Trace and Traceability in/of the Face: A Semiotic Reading through Art”

“Volto, corpo, emozioni e linguaggio” – FACETS-themed event in Catania

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

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

Face and Chiasmus. Recent insight from cognitive semiotics (Conference in Turin)

New Book IL METAVOLTO

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