News

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

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

Events

/ 25 February 2022

International Congress on Juri Lotman’s semiosphere

Face Studies

/ 9 February 2022

Sculptures Express Real Human Emotions

Face Studies

/ 26 January 2022

FACETS: new research premises in Turin

Press

/ 18 January 2022

South Korea will use AI face recognition to trace positive cases

Face Studies

/ 14 January 2022

Use of Face masks can make face more attractive

Press

/ 17 December 2021

AI is about to get a face to understand the world

Press

/ 17 December 2021

Eye tracking to control your device

Face Studies

/ 11 November 2021

INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING and ART course by Silvia Barbotto Forzano

Publications

/ 25 October 2021

New Publication: el Rostro en el Horizonte digital latinoamericano

Events

/ 22 October 2021

Symposium On The Future of The Face

Publications

/ 15 September 2021

New Book VOLTI DEL COMPLOTTO

Events

/ 20 September 2021

The Science of the Face Webinar series autumn 2021

Webex: https://bit.ly/3zm3vX2 (only the 1st meeting) Marco Viola, University of Turin, FACETS Post-Doc Researcher

Press

/ 10 September 2021

Face-shaped balloon floats over Tokio

Press

/ 8 September 2021

New means of controlling the ethical application of AI in cities

Press

/ 7 September 2021

False faces and Lava monster

Press

/ 7 August 2021

Artist shows how face animation filter works on his paintings

Press

/ 26 July 2021

New Ways to Manage Church with AI technologies

Face Studies

/ 14 June 2021

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

Face Studies

/ 14 June 2021

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

Press

/ 7 June 2021

Europe starts the legal battle against the most controversial facial recognition startup

Press

/ 26 May 2021

Everything Can Talk: Pareidolia Face Reenactment

Press

/ 21 April 2021

The results of the first lawsuit on facial recognition

Press

/ 17 April 2021

MetaHuman tool helps to craft realistic faces inside a browser

Press

/ 14 April 2021

Can AI Emotions Recognition Help To Understand One’s Intentions?

Press

/ 13 April 2021

This Browser Game Will Help You To Discover Downsides of AI Emotion Recognition

Publications

/ 26 March 2021

New Book! Artificial Faces!

What happens to faces in COVID times?

Press

/ 1 March 2021

Artist Bailee Higgins Creates Digital Art of People Wearing Masks

Press

/ 26 February 2021

Apple Received The Patents For Facial Heat Mapping In Face Recognition

Press

/ 25 February 2021

Post-COVID Art: Listening To A concert of Singing Avatars

Events

/ 25 February 2021

Advanced Seminar Chronotopes of the Face | FACETS

Webex platform of the University of Turin: https://bit.ly/3umf8LG

Press

/ 24 February 2021

Ceramic Busts with Flowers in the mouth by Artist Jess Riva Cooper

Press

/ 24 February 2021

Artist Tomáš Libertíny creates together with thousands of bees

Press

/ 22 February 2021

Dain Yoon Paints The Faces Altering The Reality Perception

Press

/ 22 February 2021

Emotional Portrays Of Figurative Painter Frank Auerbach

Press

/ 19 February 2021

Jugs representing human faces

Press

/ 16 February 2021

Robots like Sophia will be manufactured to support the fight during the pandemic

Press

/ 16 February 2021

Facial verification can differentiate traits more accurately

Press

/ 11 February 2021

Turin: 3D face reconstruction with planning virtual surgery

Press

/ 11 February 2021

Face recognition should be limited to defend privacy

Face Studies

/ 9 February 2021

Digital artist Benji mixing faces of celebrities

Press

/ 9 February 2021

All the faces of Jacq on the walls of Florence and around the world

Press

/ 8 February 2021

The way to know if facial recognition used your photos

Press

/ 8 February 2021

Regardt van der Meulen: time, memory and mortality

Press

/ 8 February 2021

Artist Sun-Hyuk Kim Creates Figurative Sculptures From Stainless Steel Roots

Press

/ 5 February 2021

Apple might return fingerprint verification because of masks

Press

/ 18 January 2021

The Debate Over Museums, Heritage and Countries of Origin

Press

/ 18 January 2021

Reproduction of Art with New Technologies in New Spaces

Press

/ 15 January 2021

Google Shopping augmented reality to let users try on products

Press

/ 15 January 2021

Facial Recognition Technology Grappling With Mask Challenge During The World Pandemic

Press

/ 14 January 2021

A Robot Can replicate the expressions of the human face

Press

/ 14 January 2021

A Museum Acquires Two Emoji That Symbolize Inclusion

Press

/ 13 January 2021

Street artist Jorit will create the face of Valerio Verbano

Press

/ 12 January 2021

Face Masks May Interfere With Your Hearing

Press

/ 12 January 2021

Face Masks Make Communication in a Second Language Harder

Press

/ 12 January 2021

Architect and Designer create a spectacular bronze face shield

Press

/ 11 January 2021

Hyper-Realistic human face Masks Created From 3D Prints of Real Faces

Events

/ 11 January 2021

New Series of Webinars: Culturas del Rostro Webinarios Latinoamericanos 2021

Webex Platform: from 17.00 to 18.30 (CET) 11.01.2021 https://bit.ly/35X8HnQ / 18.01.2021 https://bit.ly/3fsmdTV / 25.01.202 https://bit.ly/3fpQnXI / 1.02.2021 https://bit.ly/2UTEiAB / 8.02.2021 https://bit.ly/2UUgi0i / 15.02.2021 https://bit.ly/2ISFeD9 / 22.02.2021 https://bit.ly/2J2nS6K Silvia Barbotto & Cristina Voto - Investigadoras post-doc FACETS: proyecto de investigación liderado por Massimo Leone.

Press

/ 10 January 2021

Science Can Explain The Fatigue Caused By Video Calls

Press

/ 8 January 2021

Chinese netizens are worried about face recognition technology

Press

/ 8 January 2021

“Dama De El Paraíso” Reveals Her Face After Being Hidden For 3700 Years

Press

/ 7 January 2021

Be A Hero Being Boring During COVID-19 Crisis

Press

/ 7 January 2021

Portraits of Anonymous Covered in Paint By Tim Tadder

Press

/ 6 January 2021

Abstract Portraits Using Only Thick Impasto Strokes

Press

/ 5 January 2021

Abstracted Paintings Of Faces By Joseph Lee

Press

/ 5 January 2021

Complexity Of Facial Expressions Through The Minimalism

Press

/ 4 January 2021

Christina West Creates Colorfully Eroded Busts To Explore Abstract Perceptions of Interiority

Press

/ 4 January 2021

Porcelain Busts Imprinted with Chinese Decorative Designs

Press

/ 2 January 2021

Jorit Returns to East Naples: Three New Street Art Works In Barra

Press

/ 2 January 2021

Banksy? No, Michelangelo. Incredible Discovery On The Graffiti Of Palazzo Vecchio

Press

/ 29 December 2020

Dream Worlds Imagined in Contorted Clay Portraits by Johnson Tsang

Press

/ 29 December 2020

Face The Challenge: Singapore’s Solution To Digital ID Verification

Press

/ 28 December 2020

Farewell Ferragni, The Virtual Influencer Arrives

Press

/ 28 December 2020

Epic’s New Tech Could Theoretically Put Your Facial Expressions In Fortnite

Press

/ 24 December 2020

Can You Give Your Facial Expression To The Avatar?

Press

/ 24 December 2020

Giant Face In Prague That Rotates In “Metamorphosis”

Press

/ 23 December 2020

Masks: Portraits of Times Square and Luxury Graffiti

Press

/ 23 December 2020

Tomàs Barceló’s sculptures fuse classical antiquity and retro-futurism

Press

/ 22 December 2020

An Eccentric Cast of Hybrid Creatures Mirrors the Diversity and Humor of Human Experience

Press

/ 22 December 2020

Elaborate Fashions and Hairstyles Explore Beauty and Power in Photographer Luke Nugent’s Lavish Portraits

Face Studies

/ 21 December 2020

Flexible Expressions Could Lift 3D-Generated Faces

Face Studies

/ 21 December 2020

The Virus Has Stolen Your Face From Me

Press

/ 19 December 2020

Behind the meaning of Julia sculpture

Press

/ 19 December 2020

Sports icons and street art

Face Studies

/ 18 December 2020

Hyper-Realistic Portraits Of Rafael Fonseca

Face Studies

/ 18 December 2020

Artist digitally recreated the face of Mariano Melgar and María Santos Corrales

Face Studies

/ 18 December 2020

The Semiotics Of A Pandemic According To Gilles Lipovetsky

Face Studies

/ 17 December 2020

Use Of Facial Recognition On Police

Face Studies

/ 17 December 2020

Huawei’s Facial Recognition To Track Uyghurs

Face Studies

/ 16 December 2020

From Now On Citizens of Peru Can Renew ID From Cell Phone

Face Studies

/ 16 December 2020

Identity Verification During The Age Of COVID-19

Face Studies

/ 15 December 2020

Experiments With Google

Face Studies

/ 15 December 2020

InsightART Helped To Analyse The Lost Raphael’s Painting

Face Studies

/ 14 December 2020

Co-op is using facial recognition tech to scan and track shoppers

Face Studies

/ 14 December 2020

Viral Reface App gets $5.5 M Seed Led

Face Studies

/ 11 December 2020

FACETS Post-Doc Silvia BARBOTTO Talks About Transface at Transmedial Turn Conference

Face Studies

/ 11 December 2020

The DNA Of 8,000 People Were Scanned To See How Facial Features Are Controlled By Genes

Face Studies

/ 2 December 2020

Court ruled on China’s first case over facial recognition tech

Events

/ 1 October 2020

FACETS Post-Doc Researcher Silvia BARBOTTO teaches course in “Interactive Story Telling and Art” on “Faces”

Università di Torino Silvia Barbotto

Events

/ 22 October 2020

FACETS Post-Doc Marco VIOLA Talks About Masked Faces in “Sound of Science”

Black Bell, Trinità, CN Marco VIOLA

Events

/ 1 October 2020

FACETS Post-Doc Researcher Cristina VOTO teaches course in “Visual Communication” on “Faces and Interfaces”

Università di Torino Cristina Voto

Research

/ 28 October 2020

Company Promises Face Identity Protection Services

Research

/ 8 October 2020

Giorgio Agamben’s Philosophical Notes on the Face

Events

/ 28 October 2020

FACETS PI Massimo LEONE’s Plenary Lecture “Volti paradossali delle religioni”

University of Siena Massimo Leone

Events

/ 21 October 2020

FACETS PI Massimo LEONE’s Plenary Lecture “Encarar las fronteras: rostros, algoritmos, emociones”

Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina Massimo Leone

Publications

/ 4 October 2020

Two New Databases of Faces

Publications

/ 29 September 2020

New Article by FACETS member Marco VIOLA in “Synthèse”

Events

/ 9 October 2020

FACETS “Science(s) of the Face” Webinar Series, Year 02

Università di Torino Marco Viola; Massimo Leone

Face Studies

/ 20 September 2020

Robot “Pepper” Trained to Remind People to Wear a Mask

Face Studies

/ 20 September 2020

Statistics of Mask Wearing in the USA

Face Studies

/ 11 September 2020

Microsoft Announces Video Authenticator for Deepfake Detection

Publications

/ 11 September 2020

The Semiotics of the Medical Face Mask: A New Article

Face Studies

/ 11 September 2020

AI Researchers Use Heartbeat Detection to Identify Deepfake Videos

Face Studies

/ 9 September 2020

Deep Learning for the Face Recognition of Chimpanzees

Face Studies

/ 9 September 2020

Medical Masks and Face Recognition

Face Studies

/ 9 September 2020

The Face in Digital Forensics: New Article

Events

/ 26 February 2020

FACETS PI Massimo LEONE lectures on online teaching and the face at the “Sapienza” University of Rome

"Sapienza" University of Rome Isabella PEZZINI

Events

/ 24 February 2020

FACETS PI Massimo LEONE Lectures on the Face in Online Teaching

Université de la Côte d'Azur Matteo TRELEANI

Events

/ 10 September 2020

2020 – Shanghai Graduate Seminar – Critical Semiotics

Shanghai University Massimo Leone

Face Studies

/ 26 August 2020

The Controversy around Clearview, prime AI Face Recognition Company (in Italian)

Face Studies

/ 26 August 2020

New Research Uses GANs to Reconstruct Facial Images from Ears

Face Studies

/ 26 August 2020

3D Construction of Facial Simulacra from Skulls Helps Ethical Reburial

Face Studies

/ 26 August 2020

Universal Facial Expressions in Art of the Ancient Americas

Face Studies

/ 26 August 2020

Deep Learning Detects Heart Diseases from Selfies

Face Studies

/ 26 August 2020

DeepFaceDrawing uses AI to Create Realistic Facial Images from Sketches

Face Studies

/ 12 August 2020

IA Facial Recognition use by South Wales Police ruled unlawful by Scottish Court

Face Studies

/ 11 August 2020

Hadi Karimi Creates 3D Digital Renderings of Faces of Famous Historical Characters

Pop Facets

/ 11 August 2020

Sergi Cárdenas and his Anamorphic Portraits (in Spanish)

Face Studies

/ 4 August 2020

Are GAN the New Morphing? Improving Hair Rendition…

Face Studies

/ 4 August 2020

FACETS goes to Shanghai

Publications

/ 29 July 2020

FACETS PI Massimo LEONE publishes new article in SIGNATA

Face Studies

/ 29 July 2020

FACETS Investigator Marco VIOLA co-edits book on facial emotions

Face Studies

/ 28 July 2020

AI GAN Algorithm Depixelizes Pictures but Reveals Dataset Biases

Events

/ 4 August 2020

2020 IASS Conversations

Colombia National University of Bogotà Neyla PARDO

Press

/ 16 July 2020

How GAN work

Face Studies

/ 16 July 2020

Play to Recognize Artificial Faces

Face Studies

/ 14 July 2020

THE FACE AND THE INTERFACE: Levinas, Teaching, & Technology

Face Studies

/ 14 July 2020

DeepPrivacy: A Generative Adversarial Network for Face Anonymization

Events

/ 11 July 2020

Jinan University Symposium on the Semiotics of Medical Face Masks

Jinan University PENG Jia

Events

/ 13 July 2020

FACETS Shanghai University Symposium

Shanghai University Massimo Leone and Zeng Jun

Publications

/ 30 June 2020

A New Book by FACETS PI Massimo LEONE

Face Studies

/ 30 June 2020

The Design of Transparent Masks

Face Studies

/ 30 June 2020

The “Creepiest” Robot Face

Face Studies

/ 30 June 2020

Erica is the First AI Humanoid “Actor” to Star in a Sci-Fi Movie

Face Studies

/ 25 June 2020

The Accidents of Face Pictorial Restoration

Face Studies

/ 25 June 2020

Biopolitics of the Mask

Press

/ 24 June 2020

Artificial Faces in Social Networks

Face Studies

/ 24 June 2020

Free Image Datasets for Facial Recognition

MegaPixels Face

Face Studies

/ 23 June 2020

MegaPixels Faces

Face Studies

/ 23 June 2020

Identifi cation de…, dé-identifi cation Entre trace(s) et fi ction(s)

Face Studies

/ 23 June 2020

Face as Infrastructure

Face Studies

/ 19 June 2020

Facialities: Bloomsbury Book Series on Face Studies

Events

/ 12 March 2020

2020 Face Studies Reading Seminar

Università di Torino Massimo Leone

Face Studies

/ 18 June 2020

Teaching How to Uncover Deep Fakes

Face Studies

/ 16 June 2020

Que reste-t-il du visage à l’heure du Covid-19 ?

Events

/ 27 February 2020

Deep FACETS – Global Symposium

Università di Torino Massimo Leone

Events

/ 13 November 2020

FACETS Panel – On Faces and Myths

Limassol, Cyprus Massimo Leone, Evripides Zantides

Face Studies

/ 28 May 2020

FACETSCAPES – Video Series

José Enrique FINOL on the semiotics of the body.

Pop Facets

/ 28 May 2020

Virtual FACETS – Video Series

Avatar FACETS

Events

/ 6 September 2020

FACETS Summer School

Sozopol, Bulgaria Massimo Leone, Kristian Bankov

Face Studies

/ 5 March 2020

FACETS – Meetings on Meaning

We are putting a face on philosophy.

Pop Facets

/ 1 March 2020

Viral FACETS – Video Series

We are facing the pandemic.

Events

/ 28 January 2020

Transhuman Visages – FACETS International Symposium

Polish Institute of Advanced Studies, Warsaw Massimo Leone

Face Studies

/ 1 October 2019

New Book! On Insignificance

A new book by FACETS PI Massimo LEONE

Face Studies

/ 1 May 2019

The Science of FACETS – Video Series

The face in the laboratory.

Research

/ 15 March 2019

FACETS to FACETS – Video Series

BEWARE! Strongly interdisciplinary, watch with caution!