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

🟠 The exhibition is included in the Single Admission Ticket to MEET, granting access to all current programming.

⭐ 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 his extensive and multidisciplinary 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 technologies influence our perception of reality and how the invisible forces of big data and AI subtly choreograph 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 work invites the audience to interact with images of Milanese architecture, blending their movements with the structures and animating the cityscape in a process of identification with the city.
🎥 The Immersive Room will showcase one of the artist’s most significant collaborations with Jean Michel Jarre: a powerful VR experience where viewers embody an inmate in a 12-cell prison. Each cell explores a different historical period of surveillance, prompting reflections on themes in religion, art, science, and personal life.

Only for this experience, after purchasing the ticket to the exhibition, it is recommended to make a reservation HERE.

General Info
📅 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 (particularly regarding surveillance), a re-examination of the nature of consciousness, the impact of political history and social trauma on awareness, and reflections on time and memory. The exhibition also features works that invite us to use technology to help us in our spiritual becoming.