Abstract
The paper studies the impact of digital technology and AI on the presence and meaning of human faces in contemporary cities, with specific attention to the cultural, social, and economic impact of automatic facial identification and recognition, facial big data, and the possibility to generate photo-realistic images of human faces through generative adversarial networks and other algorithms of AI. The inquiry situates itself in the study of the long-term relation between cities and faces, in all their multiple facets and manifestations. It is expected to cast new light on how this fundamental affordance of social interaction, the face, and this essential cradle of human coexistence, the city, are modified after the advent of the digital representation of the face. The planned result is a detailed analysis of contemporary “facescapes”, that is, the way in which human faces are turned into support of technological exchange and communicative capital in present-day cities.
Presenters
Massimo LeoneProfessor, Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences, University of Turin, Torino, Italy
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
Face; Cities; Automatic Face Recognition; Privacy; Surveillance
