The New Human Arrives at Milano Design Week
CODAME ART+TECH · Milano Design Week · April 24, 2026 · Google Milan HQ
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Milan, Italy — April 24, 2026 — CODAME ART+TECH presents The New Human, a one-day public exhibition during Milano Design Week as part of the Fuori Salone featuring 11+ interactive installations, performances, and prototypes at Google Milan HQ. Doors open at 14:00.
The works emerge from a global Creative Hackathon launched March 6 across Milan, San Francisco, and beyond — not a competition, but an engine: a space to prototype futures with questions instead of answers. Visitors are not observers. They are participants in a living system still in motion.
Also launching publicly for the first time on April 24: ARTEX, a new medium for living digital art — art that responds to presence, evolves through interaction, and stays alive over time. Alongside it, CODAME Print Club introduces a physical format for collecting living art: limited, tangible, made to be held and traded.
The New Human Creative Hackathon is not about predicting the future — it’s about experiencing it. We invite makers of all kinds to push boundaries, blur disciplines, and help shape the creative imagination that will define the next decade.
A Living Exploration of The New Human
This year’s theme of the ART+TECH Festival, The New Human, asks fundamental questions:
When cognition is shared between humans and machines, where does thinking end and authorship begin?
As bodies become augmented and programmable, what remains deeply human?
In a digitally connected world, how do we design for care, connection, and agency?
Rather than offering answers, the exhibition creates space for direct experience. CODAME frames this approach as a “White Mirror”—futures shaped by imagination, care, and collaboration.
One Shared Space, One Vision
What began as individual explorations now converges into a shared space.
Installations, performances, and prototypes—exist side by side, not as isolated pieces, but as part of a larger living system. A collective expression of The New Human in motion.
Each project is designed to respond, evolve, and invite participation—blurring the line between artwork and experience, between observer and presence.
Projects were shaped through four creative archetypes:
The Alchemist — transforming ideas into tangible form
The Storyworld Architect — shaping narrative and meaning
The Systems Imagineer — designing implications and systems
The Embodied Explorer — grounding work in human experience
Explore projects: codame.com/showcase
Discover artists: codame.com/artists
Meet mentors: codame.com/mentors
Introducing ARTEX — A New Medium for Living Art
From this shared exploration emerges ARTEX—a new medium for living digital art.
Launching publicly for the first time on April 24, 2026, at Google Milan during Milano Design Week, ARTEX enables artworks to evolve in real time—responding to presence, environment, and interaction.
Rather than static outputs, ARTEX introduces a model where art remains alive: adaptive, experiential, and continuously transforming.
Event Details
📅 Thursday, April 24, 2026
📍 Google Milan — Milan, Italy
🕖 Doors open at 14:00
Held during Milano Design Week, the event is part of a global program spanning Milan, San Francisco, Berlin, and Shanghai.
🎟️ Register: https://luma.com/saelwstl
About CODAME ART+TECH
Founded in San Francisco, CODAME is a global nonprofit community, as part of Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, exploring the intersection of art and technology. For over a decade, it has brought together artists, engineers, and thinkers to create new forms of expression and challenge how we experience the future.
Looking Ahead
The New Human is not a single event, but an evolving journey.
Projects emerging from the Creative Hackathon will continue to develop through ARTEX and programs such as the CODAME Print Club—expanding new possibilities for creation, exhibition, and collection.
Following Milano Design Week, CODAME will bring this work to a global stage, with upcoming activations in Milan, San Francisco, Berlin, and Shanghai.
For institutions, cities, and partners interested in hosting the festival or collaborating with CODAME—this is the moment to engage.
Press Contact
For press inquiries, interviews, or collaboration opportunities:
Bruno Fonzi (Milan) — Jordan Gray (San Francisco)
CODAME ART+TECH
Email: press@codame.com
Website: codame.com
Phone: US: +1 415 9351345 — IT: +39 02 82372 517
Media kit and additional materials, including ARTEX previews, available upon request.
