Living in the (Un)Real | Hsin-Chien Huang

🟠 The exhibition is included in the Single Admission Ticket to MEET, which gives access to the current programme.

⭐ MEET Digital Culture Center presents Living in the (Un)real, an exhibition that marks the Milan debut of renowned Taiwanese artist Hsin-Chien Huang. With a rich and varied background, Huang explores how technology can serve as a tool for spiritual awakening. His work delves into the relationship between technology and humanity, examining the complexities of surveillance, big data, and AI, and questioning how these forces shape our perception of reality and subtly orchestrate our lives.

Hsin-Chien Huang, a Taipei-based pioneer in new media, combines expertise in art, design, engineering, and electronics. He has collaborated on virtual worlds with renowned artists like Laurie Anderson and Marina Abramović.

Tickets for Living in the (Un)Real | Hsin-Chien Huang
🎫 Full (25+)
🎫 Reduced (10-25/+65)
🎫 Reduced (Esselunga Card, FAI Members, Milanosport Users and Employees)
🎫 Reduced (Card Feltrinelli and Institut Français Milano)

Highlights
🖼 The exhibition presents works that invite us to use technology to help us in our spiritual becoming
🌐 Huang’s VR experience offers us a chance to “lose” our bodies, immersing us in a new physical and psychological state of being
🌟 An interactive work designed especially for MEET and the city of Milan, titled Shall We Dance, Milan?
🎥 The Immersive Room will showcase one of the artist’s most significant collaborations with Jean Michel Jarre: a powerful VR experience where viewers find themselves in the shoes of an inmate within a 12-cell prison

If the experience reaches full capacity (devices being limited in number) you will receive a coupon, with which you can return another day to relive the experience.

General Information
📅 Date: select the date directly in the ticket selector
🕒 Hours: 3 p.m. to 7 p.m
⏳ Duration: 90 minutes (approx.)
📍 Location: MEET Digital Culture Center, Viale Vittorio Veneto 2, Milan, Italy
👤 Age requirements: 14+
🌐 Language: Italian/English
♿ Accessibility: MEET is accessible to people with disabilities and reduced mobility. An elevator is available in the center that connects all floors
❓ For more information, you can consult the official website
🪪 Abbonamento Musei Lombardia holders can pick up their tickets directly at the MEET box office by showing their valid card

Description
Living in the (Un)real is the first Italian solo exhibition of Hsin-Chien Huang. The artist leads us to reflect on the degree to which technology has become part of our lives. Through Huang's digital works, recurring themes are explored: the relationship between technology and human beings, the nature of consciousness, the effects of political history and social trauma, and reflections on time and memory. The exhibition also features works that invite us to use technology to help us in our spiritual becoming.