Thödgal, 2016
Fractal 3D animation
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
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About The Artwork
Tögal, translated as ‘direct crossing’, ‘the direct approach’ or ‘leapover’, can bring very quickly the actual realization of the three kayas in this lifetime, and thus is a more rapid way of bringing about the dissolution of the practitioner’s karmic vision. The practice of tögal brings the realization of ‘spontaneous presence’ (Tib., lhundrup), and it can only be undertaken by a practitioner who has first gained stability in the practice of kadak trekchö.
About Matteo Zamagni
Matteo Zamagni is an artist working across visual arts, multimedia installations, film production, and electronic music. Through these creative forays, Zamagni connects an array of contemporary technologies, science, and esoteric topics in order to critically and emotionally explore the relationships of the environmental, economic, and social turbulence of today.
Crucial to this is the positioning of the human subject embedded among the complex interrelations of nature, technology, and human politics. by re-embedding ourselves and our technologies within nature rather than outside of it; Using a range of geoscientific tools, generative and procedural workflows, AR/VR, real-time graphics, world-building, photogrammetry, physics simulations, the produced works are often depicting a complex continuum of local-to-global phenomena that play with a human-machine perception, tracking the evolution of post-anthropocentric consciousness fostered by an entangled technosphere and biosphere.