Foreword by Morgan Klaus Scheuerman; Introduction: The machine-readable Face; 1. The Emergence of the Facial Image: From Recognition to Digitisation and Back Again; 2. Facial Images as Identity Proxies: From Operability to Digital Re-embodiment; 3. Transition: From Proxies to Praxes through Reverse Engineering; 4. Ratio; 5. Spatio; 6. Dispositio; Conclusions: Lines of Flight of Recognition
Biography
Cristina Voto is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Studies at the University of Turin, Italy. She is a member of the doctoral board of the Diseño y Creación programme at Universidad de Caldas (Colombia) and of the Artes y Tecno-Estéticas programme at Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (Argentina) and serves as the vice president of the Latin American Federation of Semiotics. Her research focuses on visual semiotics at the intersection of the philosophy of technology and gender studies. She has published across these fields, including articles, edited volumes, and the monograph Monstruos audiovisuales. Agentividad, movimiento y morfología (Aracne, 2021). She has collaborated with universities and artistic institutions, including Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, the University of the West of England, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and the Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento.
