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Transposition, 2023
Custom site specific installation: VR environment, wood, lasers, 3D printed details, ERC-721 token
Dimensions variable
1 + 1AP
About the Artwork
Transposition is a site-specific hybrid VR installation that merges physical space and the virtual envionment into a journey through possible ecological realities; transposing capitalist extractive industry practices alongside indigenous preservationist culture. The work is physically defined by two branches covered with procedurally generated 3D-printed lichen structures and lasers. The branches form an arch that acts as a portal from which participants can walk through two distinct virtual realities: a pristine cave, a 3D replica of a former slate mine in the Lakes District (EN), and a procedurally generated 3D underground mine.
The VR experience is showcased with a uniquely constructed spatialized soundscape for both environments and features a wireless, free-roaming experience whilst retaining an unprecedented level of detail powered by Unreal Engine 5 latest features.
About Matteo Zamagni
Matteo Zamagni's practice encompasses visual arts, multimedia installations, film production, and electronic music. Combining these unique yet interlinked contemporary technologies with oracular themes, Zamagni reflects on the environmental, economic, and social turbulence of today.
Zamagni’s practice offers a holistic commentary on the correlations between disaster capitalism and the Earth's ecosystems. Using analytical geoscientific tools, VR/AR/MR, real-time generative imaging, world-building, photogrammetry, physics simulations, and CGI techniques, his artworks simulate and combine elemental natural forms with immersive media. This has included procedurally generated fractals, local reconstructions of existing terrain via LiDAR point clouds, and macro-scale aerial views of the earth. The resulting works are often stacked composites of recurring patterns in tangible and notional structures, depicting a complex continuum of local-global phenomena (from densely overpopulated spaces to climatological models).
Zamagni creates accessible, interactive entry-points for participants, who in turn, embody the artist's exploration of the entanglements of critical-gaze, agency, human-machine perception, tracking the evolution of post-anthropocentric consciousness fostered by an entangled technosphere and biosphere. His music production project, Seven Orbits, provides a further platform for playful experimentation with audio-visual experiences. Immersive audio-visual live sets and a recent EP released with the Shanghai-based SVBKVLT label make use of a broad palette of post-club stimuli that play with and confound audience perception. An experimental form of experience-hacking and inducing altered states that reflect the vertigo of Zamagni’s machine-vision driven visual art.

