Art Prize
re:humanism prize
art prize
A prize focused on the relationship between art and artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is profoundly changing our life experiences in terms of significant times and spaces. Hence the need for contemporary art to measure up with a new medium and aesthetics, highlighting its potential and contradictions.
Re:Humanism was founded in 2018 to reflect upon the current state of technological progress with regard to the development of advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence.
The Art Prize becomes an opportunity to reflect on the nature of technological advancement and to map the most interesting artistic research on AI. The award – for artists of all ages and nationalities – is intended for projects that take into account the complex relationship between man and algorithm, trying to bring to light a proactive vision of the future to come through critical analysis.
RE:H 2 edition
Curated by Daniela Cotimbo
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In this second edition, just as in the previous one, the guiding thread of the Prize was to seek a proactive vision of the future within the projects, through a speculative thinking on the medium of Artificial Intelligence, encouraging works that involve the use of the medium or even analyze its social and cultural implications.
Advanced technologies such as AI are able to completely redesign fundamental concepts such as those of time, space, body and identity. Starting from this remodeling, this year’s theme – Re:define the boundaries – brings reflection on the transformations of the concepts of Body and Identity in the era of Artificial Intelligence and the consequent political implications, the new modes of production of knowledge and the changes introduced by robotics and machine learning, the definition of an anthropological approach to AI and visions on the future of our planet.
The winning projects range from biodiversity to ecological awareness, from gender identity to the construction of new relational forms, from the relationship between human beings and technological devices to the exploration of the narrative and creative potential of artificial intelligence.
Four are the prizes for the finalist projects:
- 1st place: purchase prize worth € 7,000
- 2nd place: purchase prize worth € 5,000
- 3rd place: purchase prize worth € 3,000
- to the first 10 classified: production budget of € 500
and, for all the winners, participation in the exhibition that will be held in May 2021, at MAXXI in Rome.
Special mention for the Romaeuropa Digitalive Prize which will present the 11th winning project in the frame of the Romaeuropa Digitalive, in autumn 2021.
RE:H 1 edition
Opening April 16th 2019, 6.30 p.m.
17/04/2019 – 11/05/2019
curated by Daniela Cotimbo
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The idea of first edition of the Re:Humanism Art Prize is to offer a proactive vision of the future, through speculative reflection on AI as medium.
The ten projects that involve the use of artificial intelligence technologies, put the viewer a question on the relation between man and machine, trying to outline the increasingly opaque border between human and artificial. Art and human processes are rethought through the impact that artificial intelligence has on today’s society, to bring new perspectives and to develop a lateral thought, proper to art, in support of a technological advancement that is “on a human scale”.
Four are the prizes for the finalist projects:
- 1st place: purchase prize worth € 5,000
- 2nd place: purchase prize worth € 3,000
- 3rd place: purchase prize worth € 2,000
- to the first 10 classified: production budget of € 500
and, for all winners, participation in the exhibition to be held, in April 2021, at AlbumArte, in Rome.
