On 11th November 2025, Ilaria Fornacciari delivered a guest lecture titled Electrodes, Film and Algorithm: the Clinical and Colonial Epistemology of the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) within the course Visual Anthropology - Visual Culture (SANb2036) at the Faculty of Social Science, Masaryk University.
The course introduces visual anthropology as both a method and a field of research, offering a broad overview of key theories, concepts, methods and developments in current approaches to understanding visual experience as a bio-socio-cultural phenomenon in European and international contexts.
Learn more about the talk here.
In November 2025, Ilaria Fornacciari presented her talk Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition and Emotional Data, where she examined emotion recognition technologies in relation to the AI Act & epistemological foundations of emotional data.
In October 2025, Ilaria Fornacciari delivered a guest lecture titled A Scanner Darkly: Machine Vision and Emotional AI in Artistic Practices in the course Digital Art Histories Class.
