MEET Digital Culture Center

💥MEET Digital Culture Center
MEET Digital Culture Center is the first International Centre for digital Art and Culture in Italy. Born in Milan in 2018 with the support of Fondazione Cariplo and founded by Maria Grazia Mattei, it formally opens to the public in October 2020 with the aim of helping to bridge the Italian digital divide by promoting international initiatives in immersive spaces.

MEET explores and tells about people, languages, creative ideas and innovative projects through a programme of initiatives such as meetings, exhibitions, training experiences, performances and experiences that put the person back at the centre of technological change.

🟠The admission ticket gives access to the entire current programme of the MEET Digital Culture Center🟠

Highlights

ONGOING EVENTS

🌟In the Forest of the Future: VR workshop and show for families
Sundays on March 1 and April 12
What if we could imagine the future of our planet together? And if, to do so, we could enter a forest that does not yet exist but that one day could become a reality? Once a month MEET organises an afternoon entirely dedicated to families with children aged 4 to 10 taking part in a project that combines technology, art and play in an engaging and interactive narrative. There are two appointments, designed to explore the relationship between man, nature, science and imagination with a new vision: from 3.00 pm the interactive virtual reality workshop "In the forest of numbers" and from 5.00 pm the show "In the forest of the future". The project is by Ariella Vidach AiEP / DiDstudio and is realised with the support of MEET Digital Culture Center, MIC - Ministry of Culture and the Municipality of Milan. An afternoon when families can spend time together in a creative way, approaching virtual reality not only as spectators but also as protagonists and at the same time reflecting on a changing world and on how it is possible to intertwine worlds that seem far apart such as technology and the environment.

NB. The workshop is reserved for children aged 4 to 10. To purchase tickets for the event, go to the date of interest and select tickets from the types "Workshop + show" or "Show only"

🌟Liquid Chimeras (from 5 February)
Wednesday to Sunday - Immersive Room and Gallery
The exhibition arises from the urgency to reinterpret the relationship between knowledge, technology and imagination. Data on planet Earth is partial, especially those concerning ocean ecologies, and the tools that collect it are vulnerable and conditioned by technological and economic limits. Where information is lacking, creative opportunities arise. Curated by Eleonora Brizi, the exhibition explores this space of uncertainty as a fertile environment for artistic creation, a recurring theme in the work of the duo Entangled Others (Sofia Crespo and Feileacan McCormick). Born from the European Studiotopia project, in which the artists collaborated with the oceanographer Joan Llort, the exhibition transforms uncertainty into narrative and ecological possibilities. Art operates in these liminal territories where emptiness becomes generative space.


🌟 Renaissance Dreams
Every Tuesday - Immersive Room
\tThe famous Turkish media artist Refik Anadol, who first exhibited in Italy at MEET in 2020, created "Renaissance Dreams" especially for the Centre's Immersive Room, a site-specific work generated with the help of AI. Images drawn from a dataset of works of art produced in Italy during the Renaissance (1300-1600) pass before the viewer's eyes, processed and reworked by algorithms that transform their shapes and colours and create original sounds. 


🌟The roots of the new 
Tuesday to Sunday - MEET Digital Culture Center
\tLe Radici del Nuovo is a work in progress that retraces, through the collection of posters, iconic objects and videos of exhibitions, festivals and key events in the Italian and international scene from the MEET Archive, the milestones of the evolution of digital creative expression. By visiting and exploring MEET's three floors, you can immerse yourself in a walk through the protagonists and artistic movements that, from the last century to the present day, have initiated the process of research and expressive experimentation unleashed by the advent of digital technologies.

GENERAL INFORMATION
🕒 MEET is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 15:00 to 19:00. Last recommended entry at 18:00
⏳ Duration of the visit: approximately 60 minutes
📍 Location: Viale Vittorio Veneto 2, Milan
👤 Age requirements: none
🌐 Language: Italian/English
♿ Accessibility: MEET is accessible to people with disabilities and reduced mobility. There is a lift inside the centre that connects all floors
❓ For more information, you can consult the official website
🪪 Lombardia Museum Subscription holders can collect their tickets directly at the MEET ticket office by showing a valid card.