Concealment of the face and new physiognomies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22022932 |
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| Authors | Baal Delupi (0000-0001-7697-3325, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 511-521 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-28 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Chinese Semiotic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2198-9605 • E-ISSN: 2198-9613 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/css-2023-2018 |
| OpenAlex | W4387412074 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Facial recognition technology has enabled governments and private companies to have control of millions of faces in different countries around the world. This becomes dangerous since it threatens the privacy of citizens, which is why different activists demonstrate against this form of control and surveillance using different technological and aesthetic resources to prevent said recognition. This work aims at showing how face concealment can be a powerful semiotic device that can slow down or divert facial recognition technology, configuring new physiognomies. We begin by characterizing the forms of concealment of the face in the contemporary digital age, and then we analyze, from a semiotic perspective, a particular case: the different types of makeup that Adam Harvey proposes so that faces cannot be recognized. The results of the investigation show how this form of face concealment that generates new physiognomies builds political senses of resistance against advanced technology that aims to identify, monitor, and control human faces
Aesthetics · Art · Cognitive psychology · Epistemology · Facial recognition system · Political science · Politics · Semiotics · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Psychology · Public Spaces through Art · Semiotics and Representation Studies · Artificial Intelligence
| Highly cited | No |
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