A three-day symposium devoted to the most advanced semiotic theories for the modelization of visual meaning, focusing on the transition between visual cognition, image generation, and multi-dimensional image processing. A series of lectures aimed at advancing the state of the art in the semiotics of visual signification. A focus on the human face as a pivotal element at the crossroad between cognitive patterns, representative traditions, and technological devices. A tribute to open, interdisciplinary, and international semiotics, able to treasure established knowledge but also to renew it though daring attempts at hybridization and cross-fertilization. An open invitation to all visual semiotics friends, no matter what their school, to participate in a reconsideration of the discipline.

I am part of the advisory board of the ERC project FACETS. Thank you, Massimo Leone, for the invitation.