Why This Matters
As intelligence becomes distributed and cognition grows atmospheric, the question is no longer whether humans and machines will merge — but how we will evolve together. The project began as a collaboration between Loop Exit™ and CODAME ART+TECH, weaving foresight research with participatory creation. It acts as both a manifesto and a creative inquiry into what it means to be human amid the rise of synthetic cognition, sensory technology, and ecological interdependence.
Step into The New Human — not as an idea, but as an experience.
A moment. A gesture. A sensation.
Something you can inhabit.
This is a space to prototype worlds, not predictions —
to feel the future rather than explain it.
Don’t describe what’s coming.
Make it felt.
The World You’re Entering
The Reef Society — a world built from our traces.
Every click and gesture layers into a living system that keeps reshaping itself.
Something new is emerging.
Welcome to The New Human.
Let’s imagine The New Human in ten years (2036)
What you might consider and some questions for you…
Mind
When cognition is shared between humans and machines,
where does thinking end — and where does authorship begin?
Body
As bodies become augmented and programmable,
what remains deeply personal, emotional, and human?
Society
Living inside a digital nervous system,
how do we design for care, agency, and connection — not just efficiency?These are not problems to solve,
but spaces to explore through art, technology, and experience.
A Choice of Futures
Every reef holds shadow and possibility.
Black Mirror shows what breaks.
White Mirror shows what we can build.CODAME chooses the White Mirror —
futures shaped by imagination, care, and collaboration.
The Archetypes
Four creative forces shape our teams:
The Alchemist — turns ideas into tangible form
The Storyworld Architect — shapes narrative and meaning
The Systems Imagineer — designs implications and ripple effects
The Embodied Explorer — grounds the work in human sensitivity and experienceFind yourself in one.
Together, they form powerful world-building teams.
The New Human theme will be explored in a series of Aperitivos, part of the CODAME ART+TECH Festival (2026) leaning toward the Creative Hackathon in 2026, we’ll reimagine together what it means to be human in the age of collective intelligence.
A Playground where Artists and Technologists co-create the Future(s).
Invitation
The future is alive, messy, growing — and you belong inside it.
Join the CODAME Creative Hackathon: The New Human.
Read the Full Foresight Research & Curatorial Project
📖 The New Human: loopexitnow.com/the-new-human
Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Created in collaboration with CODAME ART+TECH
Call for New Humans
Be part of ART+TECH Festival (2026) Exploring The New Human. Let’s design the future — playfully, together. 👉 Join as a volunteer
Mentor or simply explore how art and technology connect us all. Be part of a creative community in Milano and San Francisco.
As our cognition becomes atmospheric, our bodies networked, and our societies algorithmic, The New Human asks: how do we stay human together?
Together, we’ll prototype The New Human — layered, adaptive, and beautifully unpredictable — through a series of events in Milano, San Francisco, and beyond.
This is more than a hackathon: it’s a living cultural R&D playground for human–tech co-evolution, where artists, designers, and technologists explore what it means to be human in the age of intelligent machines and sensory AI.
👉 Submit your interest: codame.com/p/call-for-new-humans
