

The seminar explored emerging ethical configurations in facial recognition by analyzing controversies, resistance, and sociotechnical networks where security and surveillance, autonomy and control, inclusion and exclusion intersect in complex ways.
The session invited participants to imagine alternative futures for human–machine relations and facial analysis systems. It called for the co-creation of new epistemologies that go beyond binary frameworks and enable more responsible, grounded forms of Artificial Intelligence. The seminar served as a space for exploratory debate and a hybrid forum to reflect on the technopolitical infrastructures shaping contemporary life.