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This exhibition has ended.
Site-specific AI-driven digital installation by poet-artist Sasha Stiles on Palazzo Citterio's LED wall, turning the Lorem Ipsum placeholder text into "impossible translations".
Museum websiteLorem ipsum, the dummy Latin on every unfinished website and mock-up, began as a passage from Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum, worn down by centuries of copying, errors and rewriting. Sasha Stiles takes that broken fragment as her text. If you work in Milan's design trade, you've pasted this Cicero into a hundred layouts without reading a word.
You walk into the ground floor of Palazzo Citterio and the big LED wall is rewriting it: digital posters, editorial pages, typographic plates, code fragments and imaginary archives scroll past and recombine. Stiles makes them with Technelegy, the AI alter ego she has worked with since 2018, as "Impossible Translations" of a text with no original left to recover. Kris Bones wrote the music, and the show is pitched as a conversation with the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense nearby.
It's a single work on one wall. Revenews lists entry as free; the museum gives hours only (Tuesday to Sunday, 8:30 to 19:15, last entry 18:00). It closes on 25 October.
You want objects to look at: the whole show is moving text on one LED wall.