Re:humanism 4 — Timeline Shift

“Timeline Shift” is the title of the group exhibition for the fourth edition of the Re:humanism Art Prize, the international contemporary art award that, since 2018, has explored the intersections between artistic practices and artificial intelligence.

Curated by Daniela Cotimbo, the 2025 edition will take place at Fondazione Pastificio Cerere in Rome, a symbolic site for experimentation and research in the contemporary art scene, and will be open to the public from June 19 to July 30, 2025.

On view will be the works of the ten finalists selected through the open call launched last winter, each of whom has tackled the theme of time with originality and critical insight. Also featured is the winner of the APA Prize, whose work will be displayed on APA’s digital advertising screens throughout the city of Rome for the entire duration of the exhibition. Through a deep reflection on artificial intelligence, the exhibited projects challenge the Western conception of time, as linear, progressive, and productivity-oriented, offering instead a plural, synchronic, and ritualistic reinterpretation.

Timeline Shift, literally — “displacement of the temporal sequence” — aims to question the extractive logics of data and resource exploitation that currently drive AI development, paving the way for more ethical, sustainable, and inclusive technological models. The works offer speculative, poetic, and political perspectives that deconstruct dominant value systems and open up new horizons of thought. The Re:humanism Art Prize thus reaffirms itself as a space for research and critical vision, where the dialogue between art and artificial intelligence fosters awareness, transformation, and imagination about the future.

As curator Daniela Cotimbo explains: With over five hundred submissions from around the world, many of which of exceptionally high artistic quality, we focused on projects diverse in origin, format, and themes, yet all driven by a common intent: to offer an alternative vision to a future that seems increasingly uncertain and marked by conflict. The jury did an outstanding job. By rewriting the narratives that have long fueled the rhetoric around technological progress, and by reclaiming ideas of well-being, care, listening, and participation, the artists in this edition show that it is still possible to go beyond this flawed timeline.