Face/Off

Jéssica Parente, Luís Gonçalo and Collective Biits.UC

CISUC and CIBIT-ICNAS, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Face/Off is an artefact that composes a multimedia exhibition.

It is a system that deconstructs the human face, a montage revealing the holistic visual processing of a facial expression, where the brain can understand it as a whole or a disintegrated set of parts.
Experience Face/Off
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The main elements responsible for the sensory collection are extracted from each photograph: our eyes and mouth.

The idea is to demonstrate how people with some neural disorders see our world. In this case, we want to simulate the difficulty of associating the parts to a whole.

Jéssica Parente

Holds a master's degree in Design and Multimedia from the University of Coimbra. Her increasing interest in typography led her to explore the subject in her master's thesis. Currently, she is doing her PhD, her thesis focuses on creating typographic representations that convey aspects of oral communication expressively.

Luís Gonçalo

Received his bachelor's and master's degrees in Informatics Engineering from the University of Coimbra. Currently, he is starting his PhD in Computer Creativity aligned with Machine Learning. His interests also include Computer Vision and Android Development.

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