💥 MEET Digital Culture Center
MEET Digital Culture Center is the first International Center 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 initiatives of an international nature in immersive spaces.
MEET explores and tells the stories of people, languages, creative ideas and innovative projects through a programme of initiatives such as meetings, exhibitions, training experiences, performances and experiences that put the individual at the centre of technological change.
🟠 The entrance ticket gives access to the entire current programme of the MEET Digital Culture Center🟠
CURRENT EVENTS
🌟 2030: Collective Resonance (from October 7 to October 25)
Wednesday to Sunday – Immersive Room, Gallery 1-2-3, Living Staircase and Lounge
An exhibition of works from Taiwan imagining a near future in which technology and culture are deeply intertwined. The exhibition explores how cultural memory is transformed and regenerated in the AI era, shaping a collective resonance in which past, present and future are in constant dialogue. Through new media art, VR and immersive installations, the project investigates the evolution of Taiwan's cultural imagination within a global technological context and how cultural memory can be translated into digital forms. The exhibition is divided into three thematic sections: Memory as Portal, which conceives memory as a space to traverse; Ritual as Technology, devoted to the reinterpretation of Taiwanese ritual practices through virtual reality and digital media; and Digital Skins and Future Bodies, which reflects on body and identity in AI-generated environments, where the skin becomes an interface between data, memory and imagination.
UPCOMING
🌟 Value of Values (from October 29 to January 2027)
Thursday to Sunday – Lounge, Gallery, Immersive Room
Value of Values (VoV) by Maurice Benayoun was born by combining neuroscience, art and blockchain to transform our thoughts and ideas about values such as love, freedom or compassion into something visible and concrete. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the work in the Neuro-design Factory Immersive Room, where the visitor wears an EEG helmet that reads brainwaves and shapes a 3D form representing a human value with the sole power of thought. This model is recorded on the blockchain as an NFT and becomes the property of its creator. The entire exhibition path branches out from this core: the values created feed the Value Trading Room, a stock market in which the creations compete with each other before being catalogued in the Periodic Table of Values. The 3D models then take physical form and are analysed by Artificial Intelligence. Finally, Fusion VoV unites the thousands of minds involved in the project since 2018 and shapes a single collective work for each value. An exhibition path that aims to lay bare our hierarchy of priorities and show what really matters to today's society.
PERMANENT CONTENT
🌟 Renaissance Dreams
Every Wednesday – Immersive Room
The famous Turkish media artist Refik Anadol, who exhibited for the first time in Italy at MEET in 2020, has created especially for the Center's Immersive Room "Renaissance Dreams", a site-specific work generated with the help of AI. Images taken from a dataset of artistic works produced in Italy during the Renaissance (1300-1600) scroll before the spectator's eyes, processed and reinterpreted by algorithms that transform shapes and colours and create original sounds.
🌟 The roots of the future
Wednesday to Sunday – MEET Digital Culture Center
The Roots of the Future is an ongoing project that retraces, through the collection of posters, iconic objects and videos of exhibitions, festivals and key appointments of the Italian and international scene from the MEET Archive, the main stages of the digital creative evolution. Visiting and exploring MEET's three floors makes it possible to immerse yourself in a journey through the protagonists and artistic movements that, from the last century to the present day, have initiated the process of research and expressive experimentation triggered by the advent of digital technologies.
🌟 Journey to Italy
Wednesday to Sunday – Gallery 0
Journey to Italy is among the first web series entirely generated with artificial intelligence. A work that lies at the intersection of documentary, fiction and meta-narrative, it represents 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 devised 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 from real elements and then opens up into a parallel timeline in which a very powerful artificial intelligence allows memory to be explored as a navigable space. The Italy we see is not documented but recreated: recognisable yet transformed, familiar yet alien.
GENERAL INFORMATION
🕒 MEET is open from Wednesday to Sunday from 2.30 pm to 7.30 pm. Last recommended entry 7.00 pm
⏳ Visit duration: approx. 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 an elevator inside the center that connects all floors
❓ For more information, you can consult the official website
🪪 Holders of the Lombardy Museums Subscription can buy the ticket directly at the MEET box office by showing a valid card.
