MEET Digital Culture Center

💥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 contributing to bridging the Italian digital gap 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 schedule of initiatives such as meetings, exhibitions, training experiences, performances and experiences that put the person back at the center of technological change.

🟠Admission ticket gives access to the entire current program of the MEET Digital Culture Center🟠

Highlights

CURRENT EVENTS

🌟 Synthetic Creatures (from May 7 to September 2026)
Thursday to Sunday – Immersive Room and Gallery 1, 2 and 3
A retrospective dedicated to Rebecca Allen, a pioneer of computer animation, who has been investigating the relationship between body and technology for over fifty years. The exhibition explores how the digital can become a space of presence and not just abstraction, where the body transforms into language and identity. From the first animations of the 1970s to virtual reality installations, the exhibition highlights the evolution of the representation of the human body in the digital world, conveying a radical message: that technology is not neutral and that the digital needs a physical perspective. The exhibition also addresses a political dimension: the presence of the body, often female, in the digital challenges the idea of neutral, disembodied technology. Synthetic Creatures thus offers a contemporary reflection on identity, perception and the transformation of the self in the era of virtual worlds.

COMING SOON

🌟 2030: Collective Resonance
Thursday to Sunday – Immersive Room, Gallery 3 and Lounge
A group 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 constantly 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 translate 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, dedicated to the reinterpretation of Taiwanese ritual practices through virtual reality and digital media; and Digital Skins and Future Bodies, reflecting on body and identity in AI-generated environments, where the skin becomes an interface between data, memory and imagination.

PERMANENT CONTENT

🌟 Renaissance Dreams
Every Wednesday – Immersive Room
The renowned Turkish media artist Refik Anadol, who first exhibited 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 from a dataset of artistic works produced in Italy during the Renaissance (1300-1600) flow before the viewer’s eyes, reshaped and reinterpreted by algorithms that transform their forms and colours and create original sounds.

🌟Le radici del nuovo
Wednesday to Sunday – MEET Digital Culture Center
Le Radici del Nuovo is a work in progress 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 fundamental stages of the evolution of digital creativity. Visiting and exploring the three floors of MEET, it is possible to immerse yourself in a journey through the main 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.

🌟 Viaggio in Italia
Wednesday to Sunday – Gallery 0
Viaggio in Italia 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 the language of cinema into the realm of AI-generated video. The series tells 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 from real elements and then opens up into a parallel timeline where a very powerful artificial intelligence allows memory to be explored as a navigable space. The Italy we see is not documented but recreated: recognizable yet transfigured, familiar yet alienating.

GENERAL INFORMATION
🕒 MEET is open from Wednesday to Sunday from 3 pm to 7 pm. Last entry recommended at 6 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 visit the official website
🪪 Holders of the Lombardy Museums Subscription can get the ticket directly at the MEET box office by showing the valid card.