Introduction 1. Configurations of Portraiture: Subjectivity, Techniques, Mediality, Abraham Geil and Tomás Jirsa Part I. Genealogies 2. Operative Portraits, or How Our Faces Became Big Data, Roland Meyer3. 'This Person Does Not Exist': From Real Generalization to Algorithmic Abstraction in Photographic Portraiture, Daniël de Zeeuw and Abraham Geil4. The Face as Artifact: Towards an Artifactual Genealogy of the Portrait, Sigrid Weigel Part II. (Inter)Faces 5. When Face Becomes Interface: Music Video and the Portrait of Mediality, Tomás Jirsa6.

Tracing Minor Gestures: Relational Portrait with Fernand Deligny, Elena Vogman7. Lifelike Portraits and 'Life Itself': Deepfakes through Gothic Horror, Nicole Morse8. Animal Portraits in Social Media: A Case Study Named Esther, Elisa Aaltola Part III. Self-Constructions 9. The Subject in the Frame: Aesthetic Opacity and the Reverberations of Race, Gender, and Sexuality through the Portrait, Sudeep Dasgupta10. The Avatarisation of the (Self-)Portrait: Notes Towards a Theological Genealogy of the Virtual Self , Andrea Pinotti11. Iiu Susiraja: Self-shooting as Playful Practice, Kaisu Hynnä-Granberg and Susanna Paasonen12. The Quantification Trilogy's Loss-of-Self Portraits, or Mediating the Technologies of the Self, Kate Rennebohm Part IV.

Afterlives 13. As if to Say Nothing: On Balthus's Portraits, Brian Price14. Speaking, through the Eyes, with the Dead, Georges Didi-Huberman15. Revenants: On the Animation of Dead People's Portraits in Contemporary Technoculture, Pietro Conte Index of Names.