From Urban Screens to the Museum Space — Memory Coexistence at Milano Digital Week 2025

Echoes, Whispers and Memories was presented as part of the group exhibition Memory Coexistence: Where Time Converge, held at MEET Digital Culture Center, Milan, from 2 October to 9 November 2025, within the official programme of Milano Digital Week.

The video work was screened in MEET’s Sala Immersiva, a 250 m² projection environment (2070 × 1068 × 2070 cm) equipped with 15 synchronized projectors delivering 4K imagery across three 270° walls. Within this fully enveloping spatial configuration, the work unfolded as a contemplative audiovisual experience, inviting viewers into a slow, meditative engagement with memory, temporality, and transformation.

Presented at the intersection of immersive media and curatorial research, Echoes, Whispers and Memories reflects on how memories circulate, erode, and re-emerge across personal, environmental, and collective registers, amplified through large-scale projection and spatial sound. Its presentation at MEET, and its inclusion in Milano Digital Week, situates the work within a key European discourse on digital culture and media art, reinforcing its Tier 1A international exhibition context.

About MEET Digital Center: Founded by Maria Grazia Mattei with the support of Fondazione Cariplo, MEET is Italy’s leading institution dedicated to digital culture, creative technology, and interdisciplinary research. Internationally recognised for its curatorial excellence, artist residencies, and experimental platforms, MEET occupies a position comparable to the Ars Electronica Center and ZKM Karlsruhe, and regularly collaborates with global partners including Ars Electronica, S+T+ARTS EU, and UNESCO Creative Cities.

The exhibition Memory Coexistence emerged from the long-term research framework of the City Digital Skin Art Festival (CDSA), a transnational initiative that activates urban LED façades and large-scale public screens across Asia and Europe. While CDSA situates digital art within the lived textures of the city, Memory Coexistence marks a deliberate shift into the museum context—creating a dialogue between public urban media environments and institutional exhibition spaces. Curated by Yuelai Ruan, Dominique Moulon, Maria Grazia Mattei, and Susa Pop, the exhibition brings together works by collectives and individual artists that examine memory as one of the central anthropological conditions of the technological age. The curatorial thesis positions memory as both deeply intimate and profoundly universal—a private, embodied process that is nonetheless shared, intuitive, and culturally mediated. The exhibition unfolds across four thematic chapters: The Memory of the Senses and the Body, The Intelligent Memory of Nature, The Construction of Historical and Cultural Memory, and Collective Emotions.

Total Participation

In total, Memory Coexistence brings together 33 artists and creative teams, working across digital art, immersive media, performance, AI-generated imagery, and contemporary public art.

Participating Artists and Collectives

The Memory Coexistence exhibition brings together a wide group of creators from China and the international digital art community, reflecting the transnational scope of the City Digital Skin Art Festival and its extended research into memory, technology, and collective experience. Chinese artists and collectives featured in the exhibition include:
Ban Ling Sheng, Chen Can Rong, Ruan Yuelai, DigitalFun, Yang Xue Ning, Zheng Jing, Lu Ying Ying, Chen Zhi Hao, Ruan Xiao Qing, Kou Shu De, Wu Jian Bin, Spinor, Li Zhen, Zheng Hai Yu, ZorkArt, Yang Qi Rui (with team), Yu Zhen (with team), Gao Shiqiang (with team), Wang Feng, Luo Bao Quan, DAI Yanliang with H1H Art, Chuang Qiao, Wang Shuai, and Xu Xiao Hu. International artists and collectives include George Yankov, Léo Sallanon, Lee Lee Nam, MP Studio, and the Media Art Nexus team with Mark Chavez and Ina Conradi.

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Further Reading / Exhibition Links

• MEET exhibition page:
  https://www.meetcenter.it/en/event/memory-coexistence-where-time-converge/
• Curatorial overview:
  https://www.meetcenter.it/en/memory-coexistence-the-artworks-of-the-collective/