DUE TO A TECHNICAL ISSUE, THE IMMERSIVE ROOM IS CURRENTLY UNUSABLE. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.
💥MEET Digital Culture Center
MEET Digital Culture Center is the first International Center for Digital Art and Culture in Italy. Founded in Milan in 2018 with the support of Fondazione Cariplo and established by Maria Grazia Mattei, it formally opened 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 showcases people, languages, creative ideas, and innovative projects through a range of initiatives such as meetings, exhibitions, educational experiences, performances, and projects that put individuals at the center of technological change.
🟠The entrance ticket gives access to the entire ongoing program of the MEET Digital Culture Center🟠
CURRENT EVENTS
🌟 2030: Collective Resonance (from October 7 to October 25)
Thursday to Sunday – Immersive Room (currently unusable), 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 where past, present, and future constantly interact. 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 organized into three thematic sections: Memory as Portal, which views memory as a space to traverse; Ritual as Technology, focusing on 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.
UPCOMING
🌟 Value of Values (from October 29 to January 2027)
Thursday to Sunday – Lounge, Gallery, Immersive Room
Value of Values (VoV) by Maurice Benayoun combines neuroscience, art, and blockchain to transform our thoughts and ideas about values like love, freedom, or compassion into something visible and tangible. At the core of the exhibition is the Immersive Room installation Neuro-design Factory, where visitors wear an EEG headset that reads brainwaves and sculpts a 3D form representing a human value using only the power of thought. This model is then recorded on the blockchain as an NFT and becomes the property of its creator. From this core, the entire exhibition unfolds: the created values feed the Value Trading Room, a stock market where the creations compete, before being cataloged in the Periodic Table of Values. The 3D models then take physical form and are analyzed by Artificial Intelligence. Finally, Fusion VoV unites the thousands of minds involved in the project since 2018 into a single collective artwork for each value. An exhibition path that aims to reveal our true priorities and show what really matters to today's society.
PERMANENT CONTENT
🌟 Renaissance Dreams
Every Wednesday – Immersive Room (Currently suspended due to Immersive Room issues)
The renowned Turkish media artist Refik Anadol, who first exhibited in Italy at MEET in 2020, created "Renaissance Dreams" specifically for the Center's Immersive Room. This site-specific work is generated using AI. Images drawn from a dataset of artistic works produced in Italy during the Renaissance (1300-1600) flow before the viewer's eyes, manipulated and reinterpreted by algorithms that transform shapes and colors and generate original sounds.
🌟The Roots of the New
Wednesday to Sunday – MEET Digital Culture Center
The Roots of the New is an ongoing project that traces the key stages of digital creative evolution through the collection of posters, iconic objects, and videos of exhibitions, festivals, and key events from the Italian and international scene taken from the MEET Archive. By visiting and exploring MEET's three floors, you can immerse yourself in a journey through the protagonists and artistic movements that, from the last century to the present, have driven research and expressive experimentation sparked by the advent of digital technologies.
🌟 Journey to Italy
Wednesday to Sunday – Gallery 0
Journey to Italy is one of the first web series entirely generated with artificial intelligence. It is a work that 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-generated video. The series tells 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 begins 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: recognizable yet transformed, familiar yet alien.
GENERAL INFORMATION
🕒 MEET is open from Wednesday to Sunday, 2:30 PM to 7:30 PM. Last recommended entry at 7:00 PM
⏳ Visit duration: approximately 60 minutes
📍 Location: Viale Vittorio Veneto 2, Milan
👤 Age requirement: none
🌐 Language: Italian/English
♿ Accessibility: MEET is accessible to people with disabilities and reduced mobility. An elevator inside the center connects all floors
❓ For more information, you can visit the official website
🪪 Holders of the Lombardy Museum Pass can buy their ticket directly at the MEET ticket office by showing a valid card.
