The official catalog for the 14th edition of CartoonSEA, the prestigious Italian national award for humor and satire, has just been released, highlighting a powerful and timely theme:"YOU HUMANS… Emancipated or Bullied by Machines?".
This year's edition invites deep reflection on the evolving human-machine relationship: Do machines, AI, and automation offer liberation from labor, giving humans space for creativity, freedom, and art?.
Or do they gradually displace human roles in artistic and intellectual domains, threatening a decline in our unique cognitive and imaginative capacities?
The catalog showcases selected works by Italian cartoonists, each addressing the theme with sharp wit and visual intelligence.
Held annually in the coastal city of Fano, CartoonSEA is a national competition exclusively for Italian cartoonists, it provides a platform for addressing modern-day social and cultural questions through the lens of satire and visual commentary.