Opacizzare il volto artificiale attraverso le arti digitali: errori, deformità, materia, intersoggettività

The aim of this article is to unmask certain areas of meaning related to a semiotics of the artificial face in digital arts. Art is considered as a privileged field of reflection since it is able to analyze and reproduce a model of the present where the machine vision is pervasive. Contemporary facial society confronts us with the continuous accumulation of faces generated by Artificial Intelligence. Today an omnipresent and all–significant faciality cross media, urban planning, surveillance systems and health care. In this context, digital art shows a series of productive gestures capable of mattifying the transparent promise of artificial visages. These gestures are able to devolve the aesthetic and biopolitical density to longtime social practices such as individuation and typification. Thanks to the analysis of a corpus of digital artworks the article will recognize a strategy that through the use of errors, deformities, material translations and intersubjective operations opens the way to a transhuman ethic of visage.