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2030: Collective Resonance / The works in the exhibition
Starting September 16, 2026
Thursday through Sunday – 3:00 p.m. / 7:00 p.m.
MEET Digital Culture Center
Viale Vittorio Veneto 2, Milano
2030: Collective Resonance is a group exhibition of works from Taiwan that envision a near future in which technology and culture are deeply intertwined. The exhibition explores how cultural memory is transformed and regenerated in the age of AI, giving rise to a collective resonance in which the past, present, and future are in constant dialogue.
Through works of new media art, VR, and immersive installations, the project examines the evolution of Taiwan’s cultural imagination within a global technological context and how cultural memory can be translated into digital forms.
Below are the works on display.
LOUNGE
1 – Toilet Consciousness (Che-Kuang Chuang) / VR / Ritual as Technology
“Toilet Consciousness” is a virtual reality work based on research into the design of public restrooms in Taiwan. Viewing the restroom as a space where the body, identity, privacy and social conventions intersect, the work invites viewers to enter various virtual spaces dedicated to restrooms and to experience the perspectives of different bodies and identities. The restroom is no longer viewed as a neutral or purely functional space, but as a place shaped by gender norms, accessibility, and cultural imagery. The work invites the public to reconsider how space defines the body and how design reflects broader societal issues.
2 – Heart of Charcoal Fire (Lin Yun-Si, Chen Po-Kuei, Lan Ke-Chen, Hsieh Yu-Ling) / VR / Ritual as Technology
“Heart of Charcoal Fire” is a virtual reality work inspired by the “fire-walking” ritual at the Baoyuan Temple in Xinzhuang. Through the virtual character Bo-Wan, born of fire and collective devotion, the work reinterprets Taiwanese folk beliefs, transforming them into a tangible digital experience. The project transforms the ancient ritual into an immersive experience that the audience can enter and become part of, creating a more inclusive space for participation. The work opens a new path for experiencing faith, the body, fire and community in the digital age.
3 – In the Name of Body (Che-Kuang Chuang) / VR / Ritual as Technology
“In the Name of Body” is a virtual reality work that explores the relationship between human body, will and existence in the age of AI. Beginning with two Taiwanese billboard carriers, who are also protesters using their bodies to express themselves, the work reflects on how the body endures pressure and becomes an expression of the relationship between capital, technology and beliefs. Through four sections, the work asks: when artificial intelligence is capable of simulating images, language and voices, at what points is it still necessary for a human being to be physically present?
LIVING STAIRCASE
5 – The Fashion Machine – CiCi & ViVi Are There (Doris Lin) / Video / Digital Skins and Future Bodies
“The Fashion Machine – CiCi & ViVi Are There” is a video work that explores the fashion system as a constantly running machine, capable of producing new garments and myths. CiCi and ViVi emerge from this system as two figures without a fixed narrative or final destination. Each appearance, transformation, and costume change captures only a fleeting moment within an ever-evolving process. In this chapter, CiCi and ViVi appear in Milan, while their next destination remains unknown. Launched by Doris Lin in 2024, “The Fashion Machine” is an ongoing art project.
GALLERY 1
1 – Polished by Time (Wen Tai Fen) / Video / Digital Skins and Future Bodies
“Polished by Time” draws inspiration from the formation of the Lanyang Plain in Yilan, the artist’s hometown. Through AI-generated images, animation and sound, the work transforms natural processes such as river erosion, sedimentation and atmospheric erosion into poetic symbols of culture and life. “Polishing” thus becomes both a geological process and a metaphor for personal growth: just as the landscape is gradually shaped by time, the artist and all living beings are transformed by pressure and coexistence. The work traces a journey from birth to maturity, from the individual to the collective. It presents time as a continuous generative force that reshapes life, identity and place.
2 – See You in Three Days (KUA KEE SENG) / Video / Digital Skins and Future Bodies
“See You in Three Days” is an AI-generated video work that explores the themes of death, family bonds and the reconstruction of memory through the cultural landscapes of Taiwan. Inspired by the passing of two sisters just three days apart, the work transforms a personal farewell into a shared memory that transcends physical death. Drawing on traditional markets, incense, ancestral rites, funeral customs, religious objects, and everyday gestures, the work presents ritual as a living archive through which the deceased remain present. The images weave together fragmented memories into an emotional landscape where life and death, presence and absence, gradually overlap. In the final sequence, the sisters return as little girls, reunited in memory beyond suffering, time and mortality. The work reflects on how Taiwanese family traditions and collective memory transform personal grief into an enduring cultural memory.
GALLERY 2
Metaverse Fashion Video Open Call / 4 Videos
- SYMBIOSIS EVOLUTION: Crossing Extremes (Gabriel Hu, Symbiosis Lab) / Digital Skins and Future Bodies
“SYMBIOSIS EVOLUTION: Crossing Extremes” is a video work that envisions the future of high fashion under extreme climatic conditions. Centered on the “Lumina” smart dress, the work explores how fashion can become an adaptive interface for survival. As the virtual model moves through smog, desert storms, wildfires and floods, the garment reacts with color changes, protective shields, material hardening, fluid movements and watertight underwater functions. The work presents clothing as a living system that perceives, protects and transforms itself based on its surroundings. Envisioning a future in which the body, technology, and climate no longer exist separately but enter into a new state of symbiotic survival.
- Nuvoletta (Loren: Wang Li-Yun) / Digital Skins and Future Bodies
“Nuvoletta” is a video work centered on a virtual character that transforms the artist’s image into a virtual character inspired by classical painting. By combining 2D digital painting, hand-drawn illustrations and AI-assisted image generation, the project explores how personal identity, memory and artistic imagination can be translated into a virtual body. Rather than presenting the avatar as a purely futuristic figure, Nuvoletta connects digital character design to historical aesthetics and proposes the virtual character as a new form of cultural and educational presence, opening a delicate dialogue between classical imagery, the creativity of artificial intelligence and the identity of the future.
- Smuggling Bodies: Digital Embodiment as a Method for Reimagining Body Politics (Hsin Min Chan) / Digital Skins and Future Bodies
“Smuggling Bodies” explores digital personification as a method for rethinking the body beyond anthropocentric assumptions. The work begins with the observation that most virtual character systems define an “effective” body through standardized rules, and that bodies that deviate from these structures are often treated as errors. By using non-human digital bodies as its central subjects, the project investigates how alternative bodily forms can be perceived and understood within virtual space. Rather than presenting digital avatars as futuristic fantasies, the work uses them as critical tools to challenge the way bodies are regulated by technology and to imagine more diverse forms of existence for future digital bodies.
- Chains of Illusion (Fernando Acuna, Hung-Chi Hsu, Nandar Thu, Yi-An Yang, Z Axis Studio) / Digital Skins and Future Bodies
“Chains of Illusion” explores how digital culture, consumerism and image-making redefine the way individuals perceive and construct their sense of self. Set in a futuristic setting, the work features bodies that appear refined, desirable and infinitely reproducible. Yet beneath these seductive surfaces lies a sense of isolation and instability. The digital body becomes both an object to be displayed and a space in which identity is continually modified, represented, and consumed. This work questions whether digital environments expand individual freedom or silently reinforce new forms of conformity, desire and self-surveillance.
IMMERSIVE ROOM + G3
1 – A Sea of Polyphony (Hsiao-Yue Tsao) / Digital Video / Memory as Portal
“A Sea of Polyphony” is a video work inspired by the Taiwanese literary works “Thinking of You,” “I Go to the Sea,” and “Matsu’s Blue Tears.” The work gives voice to stories and testimonies that have been forgotten or never put into writing. Through projections, sound and digital storytelling, symbolic objects drawn from the literary narratives connect women across generations, allowing personal memories to resonate with the island’s broader history. By transforming the sea into a space of memory, the work allows literature to unfold through light, image, space and the body, creating a poetic and participatory experience.
1- ZipRush: Riders of Ekholux (Hsin-Chien Huang) / Opera immersiva + VR / Memory as Portal
“ZipRush: Riders of Ekholux” is an immersive VR experience set in the world of Ekholux that explores new ways to preserve culture through play. Rather than viewing games as mere entertainment, ZipRush functions as a living cultural ecosystem, where movement, creativity, and participation continually generate new forms of human expression. By running, sliding down walls, gliding, jumping and creating new paths, participants develop a unique bodily awareness that can be experienced, transformed and expanded by others. In the age of AI, culture faces the risk of homogenization, but ZipRush addresses this threat by embedding culture within a living system that survives only through continuous interaction and collective creation. Each participant becomes not only a player but also a creator, a performer and a custodian of cultural memory. Every new path, movement technique and environment built by the community contributes to an ever-evolving archive. Rather than preserving artifacts or fixed locations, ZipRush preserves a way of perceiving, moving and imagining that resists simplification, allowing culture to remain alive through participation, transformation and shared experience.
