On Wednesday, June 18, 2025, the Fondazione Pastificio Cerere presents Timeline Shift, a group exhibition of the fourth edition of the Re:humanism Art Prize, curated by Daniela Cotimbo.
The exhibition will be open from June 19 to July 30, 2025.
Re:humanism Art Prize is a prize established in 2018 by the cultural association Re:humanism, which is meant to explore the relationship between art and artificial intelligence, and it is open to all professional artists, without any limits of age or geographical origins.
The exhibition will feature the works of the ten finalists selected through the open call launched last winter, who have tackled the theme of time with originality and critical spirit, as well as the winner of the APA Prize. Through a profound reflection on artificial intelligence, the projects displayed question the Western view on time – linear, progressive and functional to productivity – in order to propose a plural, synchronic and ritual reinterpretation of it.
Timeline Shift aims to challenge the extractive logics of data and resources that drive AI development today, paving the way for more ethical, sustainable and inclusive technological models. The works present speculative, poetic and political perspectives, capable of deconstructing dominant value systems and generating new horizons of thought.
The jury that chose the winners consisted of: Alfredo Adamo, Lorenzo Balbi, Alice Bucknell, Claudia Cavalieri, Daniela Cotimbo, Niccolò Fano, Anika Meier, Paolo Paglia, Federica Patti, Walter Quattrociocchi, Diva Tommei and Joanna Zylinska.
The winner in the MAIN PRIZE category is the Lo-Def Film Factory collective, created by the duo Francois Knoetze and Amy Louise Wilson. Their artwork Concept Drift is an immersive and interactive environment that interweaves video game, visual archive and postcolonial narratives.
The second prize winner is Isabel Merchante with One Day I Saw the Sunset Ten Thousand Times, a poetic reflection on the mechanisation of perception and the digital reproduction of nature.
The third prize winner is Minne Atairu with Da Braidr, a “conceptual start-up” that uses AI to enhance the micro-entrepreneurial economy of Afro braids production, while deconstructing the marketing rhetoric of AI within the techno-capitalist narrative.
The other winning artists are: Federica Di Pietrantonio with Net Runner 01, Adam Cole and Gregor Petrikovič with Me vs. You, Amanda E. Metzger with Ever, Esther Hunziker with Screen Tests, Daniel Shanken with The Pits, the IOCOSE collective with AI-Ludd and Kian Peng Ong with Cloud Scripts.
The APA Prize has been awarded to Franz Rosati for his project DATALAKE:CONTINGENCY, which presents constantly changing AI-generated scenarios, evoking the conflict between nature and technology and their attempt to coexist.
Finally, Romaeuropa’s Digitalive prize went to Valerie Tameu with the project Metabolo II: Orynthia. The performance addresses the relationship between artificial intelligence, natural ecosystems and cultural traditions through a decolonial and post-anthropocentric perspective, using water as a symbol of the African diaspora and stories of displacement.
On the occasion of the official opening, there will also be presented two installations realised by the students of the two-year course in Multimedia Arts & Design of RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts, hosted inside the RUFA Space, located next to the spaces of Fondazione Pastificio Cerere.
