I Miei Ricordi: Inside the Museum of Artificial Art’s Debut Exhibition in Florence

There are moments when art doesn’t simply present an image, but reveals a shift. I Miei Ricordi, the inaugural exhibition of the Museum of Artificial Art in Florence, was one of those moments, a gathering where memory, technology and imagination converged in ways that felt both intimate and unfamiliar.

Set in a city built on centuries of artistic memory, the exhibition asked a subtle yet profound question: what happens when human recall blends with synthetic imagination? Rather than positioning AI as a spectacle or a tool, the show framed it as an emerging presence, something beginning to dream, remember and imagine alongside us.

The works on display channeled the haunted beauty of digital nostalgia, images that felt part memory, part hallucination, part something else learning to see the world. Artists across the exhibition, including ctrl_cd, Laura Buechner, Serifa, Mindeye, VIXY, Infrarouge, Dullia, Circus of Artifice, parallel.fbx, Dai, Joy Fennell and Maddy Minnis, explored this fluid terrain. Visitors encountered dreamlike figuration, eco speculative textures, fractured portraits, post organic worlds and uncanny emotional echoes. What united the pieces was not their technique, but their atmosphere, the sense that each artwork was trying not to explain itself, but to remember.

As we moved through the space, the exhibition revealed the emotional dimension of AI driven creation. It wasn’t about machine perfection or technical novelty. It was about the space between human intuition and algorithmic interpretation, a space where new forms of memory take shape. The artworks felt like fragments of dreams we might have had, or might yet have, stories that belong partly to us and partly to a machine learning how to feel.

The following day’s panel, Dreaming with Digital Nostalgia, expanded the conversation further. Moderated by RED EYE’s Tafari and joined by Francesco D’Isa and Gloria Maria Cappelletti, the discussion explored how memory becomes collective, distributed and reimagined when artists collaborate with emerging forms of intelligence.

In the end, I Miei Ricordi was more than an exhibition; it was a signal, a glimpse into how art, memory and emotion are evolving. And as this shared imagination continues to grow, one thing is certain: we are no longer dreaming alone.

RED•EYE WORLD