💥 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 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 program of initiatives such as meetings, exhibitions, training experiences, performances and experiences that put the person back at the center of technological change.
🟠 The admission ticket gives access to the entire current programming of the MEET Digital Culture Center🟠
Highlights
🌟 MEET Digital Week (from September 30 to October 4)
FREE ENTRY BY FILLING OUT A REGISTRATION FORM AT THE WELCOME DESK
From Wednesday to Sunday – Immersive Room, Gallery 1-2-3 and Lounge
On the occasion of Milano Digital Week 2026, focused on the theme "The Generative City", MEET presents the 2026 edition of the CITY DIGITAL SKIN ART FESTIVAL (CDSA), the international video art competition promoted by the China Academy of Art that brings the art of young talents from around the world to urban screens in major metropolises. The theme of the fifth edition, "The Liquid Commons", explores the role of the ocean as a fundamental element for humanity. During Digital Week, the works selected from the international open call, besides being visible on the large screens of the Galleria delle Carrozze at Milan Central Station, will also be on display at MEET throughout October, demonstrating how digital art can transform the ocean from a remote concept into a shared and perceptible public space. From Milan, the works will become part of a global network connecting 10 cities in 5 countries (including Hangzhou, Changsha, Singapore and Hamburg), reaching an audience of over 100 million people.
ONGOING EVENTS
UPCOMING
🌟 2030: Collective Resonance (from October 7 to October 25)
From Thursday to Sunday – Immersive Room, Gallery 1-2-3, Living Staircase and Lounge
An exhibition of works from Taiwan imagining a near future where 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 organized into three thematic sections: Memory as Portal, viewing memory as a space to traverse; Ritual as Technology, reinterpreting 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.
🌟 Value of Values (from October 29 to January 2027)
From 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 such as love, freedom and compassion into something visible and tangible. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the Neuro-design Factory installation in the Immersive Room, where visitors wear an EEG headset that reads brainwaves and sculpts a 3D form representing a value with the power of thought alone. This model is minted on the blockchain as an NFT and becomes the property of its creator. The entire exhibition journey unfolds from this core: 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 to create a single collective artwork for each value. An exhibition journey that aims to reveal our true priorities and show what really matters in today's society.
PERMANENT CONTENT
🌟 Renaissance Dreams
Every Wednesday – Immersive Room
Renowned Turkish media artist Refik Anadol, who first exhibited in Italy at MEET in 2020, has created "Renaissance Dreams" specifically for the Center's Immersive Room. This site-specific AI-generated artwork presents images from a dataset of artistic works produced in Italy during the Renaissance (1300-1600), processed and reimagined by algorithms that transform shapes and colors and generate original sounds.
🌟 Le radici del nuovo
From Wednesday to Sunday – MEET Digital Culture Center
"Le Radici del Nuovo" is an ongoing project that traces the key stages of digital creative evolution through the collection of posters, iconic objects and videos of exhibitions, reviews and key appointments from the Italian and international scene taken from the MEET Archive. 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 the process of research and expressive experimentation sparked by the advent of digital technologies.
🌟 Viaggio in Italia
From Wednesday to Sunday – Gallery 0
"Viaggio in Italia" is among the first web series entirely generated with artificial intelligence. It is a work that stands at the intersection of documentary, fiction and meta-narrative, and represents one of the most ambitious attempts to bring cinematic language into the realm of AI-generated video. The series tells the story of the creation of an experimental broadcast devised by a group of inventors from the Universities 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 into a parallel timeline where a powerful artificial intelligence enables memory to be explored as a navigable space. The Italy we see is not documented but recreated: recognizably yet transformed, familiarly yet strangely.
GENERAL INFORMATION
🕒 MEET is open from Wednesday to Sunday from 2:30 pm to 7:30 pm. Last recommended entry at 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. An elevator inside the center connects all floors
❓ For more information, you can consult the official website
🪪 Holders of the Lombardy Museums Subscription can get their ticket directly at the MEET ticket office by showing a valid card.
