Nature Abstraction is an immersive sensory experience that explores the arcane forms of fractals, mathematical visual representation of natural and biological forms.

The project gives an insight into fractal formations through virtual reality, where they appear as three planets: Birth, Communion and Aether; Each accompanied with scores designed to facilitate meditative state and relaxation.

The fractals have also been processed through Google’s Deepdream, transforming the fractal landscapes into morphing psychedelic patterns that our eye will recognise as very familiar shapes although the way the images are created only aims to create a variety of random patterns on the canvas.

The audience is guided to explore these planets and dive into their vast complexities as well as observing the contrast between the entirely digital created world inside the VR against the fully analogue created film projected onto the faces of the cube which have been filmed in real life, recreating using analogue visual effects and various chemical elements.

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.