𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐛𝐨

Tomorrow is the last day to visit The World is Sleepwalking at @drugomore 🌊 The World is Sleepwalking emerged from a personal feeling that I believe is also collective: the sensation of being crossed by images, facts, and ideologies that reach our consciousness without us even realizing it. In a time shaped by technological acceleration and the proliferation of synthetic content, the exhibition reflects on how these images do not simply represent the world, but actively participate in transforming it. Through the works on view, the project seeks to question the narratives that shape our present. I’m truly grateful to the wonderful team at Drugo More, Davor, Ivana, Dubi, and Barbara, for the professionalism with which they carry forward their research, and to the extraordinary artists: @zachblas , @hawaidolphino , @malpractice.network (@ckiarer @_marcin.ratajczyk ), and @most_dismal_swamp , for giving shape to these reflections. It was also wonderful to explore Rijeka, a vibrant and multicultural city, and to meet its people. I’ll carry with me the memory of these intense days, made of hard work, beers, baccalà mantecato, and long conversations in my fav language 🙃. For anyone who has the chance, the exhibition is still open today and tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. 📸 The good photos among these are by Borut Brozović @borutbrozovic @studiob.media , the rest are mine or by Drugo team. @re_humanism

Sleepwalking Through the Apocalypse: Art as a Wake Up Call for AI Fatigue There is a certain genre of AI-critical art that arrives pre-loaded with its conclusions: technology bad, humans lost, screens everywhere, game over. "The World Is Sleepwalking", curated by Daniela Cotimbo at the Filodrammatica Gallery in Rijeka, is not that exhibition. The four artists gathered here are not technophobes issuing warnings from the analogue high ground. They are inside the machine, working with its materials, and their discomfort with what they find there is all the more credible for it. @re_humanism @drugomore Link in bio

A quick walk through 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙞𝙨 𝙎𝙡𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙬𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜, curated by Daniela Cotimbo @danielacot (@re_humanism ): an exhibition exploring AI, synthetic realities, digital fatigue, and life inside the endless flow of images. ❗ Open until this Thursday, May 14 at Galerija Filodrammatica, Rijeka Featuring works: 𝄪 𝘐𝘜𝘋𝘐𝘊𝘐𝘜𝘔 by Zach Blas @zachblas 𝄪 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘐𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘪𝘳𝘥 𝘈𝘍 by Silvia Dal Dosso @hawaidolphino 𝄪 𝘈𝘐 𝘍𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘣 𝘈𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵 by Malpractice @malpractice.network (@ckiarer & @_marcin.ratajczyk ) 𝄪 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘍𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥𝘴 by Most Dismal Swamp @most_dismal_swamp 𝙊𝙧𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙧𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 21𝙨𝙩 𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙄𝙉𝙀, 𝙔𝙊𝙐𝙍𝙎, 𝙊𝙐𝙍𝙎 𝙛𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙡 𝙗𝙮 @drugomore #TheWorldIsSleepwalking #MineYoursOurs #Rijeka

The Weird AF triangular esoteric Sampuru installation explained. #ai #foryoupage #food #spaghetti

Meet the curator of 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙞𝙨 𝙎𝙡𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙬𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 programme: DANIELA COTIMBO (@danielacot ) is an independent curator, lecturer, and media theorist. In 2018 she founded @re_humanism , a curatorial platform exploring the relationship between contemporary art and advanced technologies, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence. Her research investigates the ethical, social, and political impacts of AI through artistic practices, outlining new trajectories for human and technological sustainability. She has curated projects for galleries, museums, and festivals, and since 2018 has been a regular collaborator with Digitalive, the digital arts program of the Romaeuropa Festival. Since 2022 she has been a lecturer in Theory and Method of Mass Media at @rufa_university , and since 2025 she has taught Generative AI at NABA, Rome. ---------------- MINE, YOURS, OURS №21: The World Is Sleepwalking - Filodrammatica, Rijeka (Croatia) ▫️group exhibition: 23 April - 14 May ▫️public talks: Friday, 24 April (more in the link in bio) #DanielaCotimbo #TheWorldIsSleepwalking #MineYoursOurs #Rijeka

We are living in a waking dream. 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑾𝑶𝑹𝑳𝑫 𝑰𝑺 𝑺𝑳𝑬𝑬𝑷𝑾𝑨𝑳𝑲𝑰𝑵𝑮 ('Svijet u bunilu') unfolds as a journey to the edges of a synthetic reality: between wakefulness and dream, truth and simulation. Through an exhibition and public talks, artists and researchers explore how AI reshapes perception, belief, and the images that surround us. Featuring works by 𝐙𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐬, 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐃𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐨, 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞, and 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐰𝐚𝐦𝐩. Curated by 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐛𝐨 in collaboration with 𝐑𝐞:𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦. 📍 Filodrammatica, Rijeka (Croatia) 🔮 Exhibition: April 23 – May 14 💤 Public talks: April 24 FIND THE FULL PROGRAM IN THE LINK IN BIO @drugomore 📰 @danielacot @re_humanism @zachblas @hawaidolphino @malpractice.network @ckiarer @_marcin.ratajczyk @most_dismal_swamp @su_molekula @davormis @ivanawoosh @bbabacic 𝐎𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐄, 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒, 𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒 𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 IMAGES: [1, 2, 7] Visual design by Oleg Šuran (@nakonjusmo ) [3] Zach Blas, IUDICIUM, 2022, HD video still, courtesy of the artist [4] Silvia Dal Dosso, The Future Is Now Finally Weird AF, 2025, video still, courtesy of the artist [5] Malpractice, AI Fatigue Rehab Agent, 2026, graph, courtesy of the artists [6] Most Dismal Swamp, The Bastard Fields, 2025, video still, courtesy of the artist #theworldissleepwalking #mineyoursours #AI

So happy to be part of this extraordinary issue of ARTnews, alongside so many friends, colleagues, and truly inspiring artists. I contributed a review of “Pointing Nemo. Beyond Space Towards the Abyss”, an exhibition by the collective IOCOSE — winners of the previous edition of Re:humanism — curated by Federica Patti. The show, on view until 26 May at CUBO Unipol in Bologna, reflects on a future that “continues to be narrated as a horizon to be conquered”, asking whether “imagination might instead choose a different direction: not chasing mythologised elsewheres, but reopening spaces of possibility that are already here”. Enjoy 🐈‍⬛ @artnews_italia @iocose_premium @lapatti83 @cubounipol

La settimana prossima prende il via il ciclo di incontri online del progetto di ricerca “404 Human not found – Osservatorio su arte, comunicazione e intelligenza artificiale” della scuola di NTA. Primo appuntamento 🗓 mercoledì 25 marzo 2026 🕒 14:30 – 17:00 Avremo ospite Daniela Cotimbo, curatrice indipendente, docente e media theorist impegnata, da anni, nella ricerca sulle relazioni tra arte contemporanea e tecnologie avanzate. L’incontro, dal titolo “Curare la complessità: le pratiche artistiche con l’AI, tra conflitti reali e simbolici” prenderà avvio dall’esperienza di @re_humanism piattaforma curatoriale fondata da Cotimbo e dedicata all’esplorazione del rapporto tra pratiche artistiche e intelligenza artificiale. Scopri di più sul nostro sito 👉 https://www.abarc.it/eventi/curare-la-complessita-conversazione-con-daniela-cotimbo/ Incontro a cura della prof.ssa @paola_bommarito

Sometimes even -6 ❄️🏰🧊🫧💀🧁😎🍄‍🟫

2025: fire walked with me 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

We are very happy to share the installation views of Collective Memory by @nicolaslamas , the latest intervention curated by Re:humanism for the OVERTON WINDOW project at the @materia_gallery_rome ‘s vetrine. “In an era marked by informational overabundance, recomposing this archive of the existent becomes a way to overcome the experiential paralysis in which our imagination has long found itself, identifying forms of continuity and evolution. In this way, Collective Memory exploits the idea of shared knowledge to guide a different perspective on our relationship with emerging technologies. The bronze cast of a Kenyanthropus platyops skull—a species of extinct hominid that lived approximately 3.5 million years ago—and a wasp nest, a fragile remnant of a non-human collective intelligence, are fused together and placed within the frame of a server that evokes contemporary data flows, digital infrastructures, and information networks. Through this juxtaposition, the project invites reflection on the possible connections between “solid” cognitive systems, such as those adopted by humans, and “liquid” ones, typical of insects, but also underlying the processes of today’s artificial intelligences.” Excerpt from the critical text by @danielacot Photos by Roberto Apa Matèria and Re:Humanism thank @maxgoelitzgallery for the support. On view until February 1, 2026

On Friday, November 14th, at Sala 1, Lasciami Cadere, a solo exhibition by Daniele Spanò, accompanied by my critical text. “The project explores the ambiguity of images in the age of digital hypertrophy, gathering research and insights from the past two years while focusing on the image of the fall and the ensuing search for fragile balances. The artist stages a multimedia journey composed of precarious installations: screens, sculptures, and other ephemeral systems appear before the viewer in their own vulnerability, concealing— as in the case of image-emitting devices— their main content. The images, no longer visible, turn into luminous traces; they are, in the artist’s words, “ghosts struggling to reveal themselves, lights emitted by a body we cannot see.” Here, the viewer, deprived of the possibility of recognising the content of the transmission, is forced to rely on something unknown and beyond experience. This condition does not differ much from the relationship we entertain daily with media images: even when contents appear in their supposed objectivity, we are compelled to question their truthfulness and the effects their circulation exerts upon us. Today’s images are often described as “operational”—contents conceived by machines for other machines—and as such, they are manipulable both in fact and in intent. Reality thus becomes an unstable device, much like Spanò’s delicate installations. The artist invokes the act of falling as a last attempt to escape the complex conditions in which contemporary narratives find themselves. Lasciami Cadere is an invitation to let the veil of surrogate certainties drop and to move like tightrope walkers through the intricate layers of the real.” __ Venerdì 14 Novembre, presso Sala 1 inaugura Lasciami Cadere, mostra personale di Daniele Spanò, accompagnata da un mio testo critico. (Link in bio) @danielespano @sala1galleria @re_humanism