MEET Digital Culture Center

💥MEET Digital Culture Center
MEET Digital Culture Center is Italy’s first international centre for digital art and culture. Established in Milan in 2018 with the support of Fondazione Cariplo and founded by Maria Grazia Mattei, it officially opened to the public in October 2020 with the aim of helping to close the Italian digital divide by promoting internationally-minded initiatives in immersive spaces.

MEET explores and shares stories about people, languages, creative ideas and innovative projects through a programme of events including meetings, exhibitions, educational experiences, performances and activities that put people back at the centre of technological change.

🟠 Admission gives you access to the entire current programme at MEET Digital Culture Center🟠

Highlights

CURRENT EVENTS

🌟In the Forest of the Future: VR Workshop and Show for Families
Sunday 12 April
What if we could imagine the future of our planet together? And what if, to do so, we could enter a forest that doesn’t exist yet, but that one day could become 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 a compelling and interactive story. Two appointments are planned, designed to explore the relationship between humans, nature, science and imagination from a new perspective: from 3 pm the interactive virtual reality workshop “In the Forest of Numbers” and from 5 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 City of Milan. An afternoon when families can spend time together creatively, getting closer to virtual reality not just as spectators but as protagonists, while also reflecting on a changing world and on how seemingly distant worlds like technology and the environment can be intertwined.

NB. The workshop is reserved for children aged 4 to 10. To purchase event tickets, select the date and choose between “Workshop + Show” or “Show Only” ticket types

🌟Liquid Chimeras (from 5 February)
Thursday to Sunday – Immersive Room and Gallery
The exhibition arises from the need to reinterpret the relationship between knowledge, technology and imagination. Data about planet Earth is partial, especially concerning oceanic ecologies, and the tools that collect it are vulnerable and limited by technological and economic constraints. 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 oceanographer Joan Llort, the exhibition transforms uncertainty into narrative and ecological possibilities. Art operates in these liminal territories where voids become generative spaces.

COMING UP

🌟 Journey to Italy
Wednesday to Sunday – MEET Digital Culture Center
Journey to Italy is one of the first web series entirely generated with artificial intelligence. The work sits at the intersection of documentary, fiction and meta-narrative, representing one of the most ambitious attempts to bring cinematic language into the realm of AI video generation. The series tells the story of the creation of an experimental broadcast conceived by a group of inventors from the University of Pisa and Olivetti in the 1960s. The crew documents a reality produced by a computing laboratory: a simulation of Italy generated by a machine. The story starts with real elements and then opens into a parallel timeline where a powerful artificial intelligence allows memory to be explored as a navigable space. The Italy we see is not documented but recreated: recognisable yet transfigured, familiar yet strange.

PERMANENT CONTENT

🌟 Renaissance Dreams
Every Wednesday – Immersive Room
The celebrated Turkish media artist Refik Anadol, who exhibited in Italy for the first time at MEET in 2020, created Renaissance Dreams specifically for the Centre’s Immersive Room. This site-specific work is generated using AI and presents images drawn from a dataset of artworks produced in Italy during the Renaissance (1300-1600), reworked and reimagined by algorithms that transform forms and colours and generate original sounds.

🌟The Roots of the New
Wednesday to Sunday – MEET Digital Culture Center
The Roots of the New is a project in progress that traces the key stages of digital creative evolution through the collection of posters, iconic objects, and videos of exhibitions, reviews, and key events from the MEET Archive. By visiting and exploring MEET’s three floors, you can immerse yourself in a journey through the artists and movements that, from the last century to today, have initiated the process of research and expressive experimentation sparked by the advent of digital technologies.



GENERAL INFORMATION
🕒 MEET is open Wednesday to Sunday from 3 pm to 7 pm. Last recommended entry at 6 pm
⏳ Visit duration: 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. An elevator inside the centre connects all floors
❓ For more information, you can consult the official website
🪪 Holders of the Abbonamento Musei Lombardia can get their tickets directly at the MEET ticket office by showing a valid membership card.