19/06/2026
MATER[IA] — THE ANATOMY OF SYNTHETIC MATTER
DOMINGO | DMNG Media Week Fall/Winter 2026–27 | Recap
During DOMINGO | DMNG Media Week, a new dimension within the AI universe was unveiled: MATER[IA]. The project brought together 5 artists, 9 artworks, and more than 60 brands, exploring 11 substances across the five floors of the Domingo Building. Brands, partners, friends, and over 500 people gathered to experience and witness a digital world in transformation an immersive encounter between beauty, fashion, design, and culture.
MATER[IA] explores the moment in which artificial intelligence ceases to be surface and becomes density.
For years, AI-generated imagery has been consumed at the speed of scrolling: immaculate, infinite, frictionless. But perfection without matter is forgettable. MATER[IA] emerges as a radical response to the superficiality of contemporary synthetic aesthetics.
This edition is developed in collaboration with and , brought together by a shared exploration of material experimentation, computational aesthetics, and artificial imagination. In this context, AI-generated visuals are no longer treated as flat images, but as evolving structures shaped by grain, erosion, density, and subtle, often invisible imperfections. Like a microscope probing the machine’s subconscious, the project magnifies computational residues until they take on sculptural, almost biological qualities.
Within this framework, CREAITORS GALLERY presents a curated selection of synthetic visual works that engage with MECANO’s reflective metal surfaces and architectural interventions, transforming digital matter into perceptual objects suspended between image and sculpture, virtual and physical, machine and material.
MATER[IA] does not ask whether AI can imitate reality.
It asks something far more unsettling:
What if AI was not software but substance?
Curated by C. Domingo, F. Sorrentino
AI Creative Direction by CREAITORS
Art Direction by GROUND
Design Partner MECANO Lake Como
Art Partner CREAITORS GALLERY
Backed by DMNG Corp and Domingo Foundation