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The Visage, Voice and Void in the Community Art, Senses and (e-)Spaces of Contemporary Semiosis

164 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

164 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the face, defined not only as the human physical constitution but also in a metaphorical and cultural sense, and its connection with society. Bridging the analogue and the digital, the face is examined step by step from multiple perspectives and analysed within a qualitative–semiotic framework. With art as the underlying paradigm, semiotics as... Read more

Prologo Ugo Volli

Introduction

Part 1: From Phisical To (q)Face

1. Mutable topography: physiognomy and pathognomy

2. Of faces and traces: a mutable topography

3. (q)field, synthetic data and hallucinated portraits

Part 2: From Masking To Enacting Face

4. Wearing the self: performativity and masks

5. Care, memory and intersubjective transmission

Part 3: From Body To Space Face

6. Carving emptiness: on breath and wave

7. Intra-action, proto-voice and art