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Interface

The human face is the centre of our social identity, emotional lives and sense of self. How we represent the face, and how those representations change over time, is the subject of the Interface project. Interface began as AboutFace at the University of York and is funded by a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship awarded to historian of emotion Prof Fay Bound Alberti. 

Interface asks critical questions about the meanings of the human face in the past and in the present. Its core themes are surgical interventions, concepts of beauty, identity and selfhood, and the role of technology in creating and reflecting versions of the self. From face transplants to aesthetics, from robots to deep fakes, Interface explores the psychological, ethical, and social issues behind two simple questions: What is a face? And why does it matter?

Project Team

Fay Bound Alberti

Professor in Modern History

Kirsty Warner

Research Assistant for 'Sustainable Cultural Futures: COVID-19 and Resetting Cultural Policy’

News

Centre established to examine the relationship between technology and the body

The Faculty of Arts & Humanities has launched the Centre for Technology and the Body as part of the new Digital Futures Institute.

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Project Team

Fay Bound Alberti

Professor in Modern History

Kirsty Warner

Research Assistant for 'Sustainable Cultural Futures: COVID-19 and Resetting Cultural Policy’

News

Centre established to examine the relationship between technology and the body

The Faculty of Arts & Humanities has launched the Centre for Technology and the Body as part of the new Digital Futures Institute.

Bodies in the fetal position shown encases in a translucent geodesic sphere.

Our Partners

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UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Project status: Ongoing