Nathan Shafer
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- Co-founder
Other Affiliation(s):
- Co-founder
ISEA Bio(s) Available:
ISEA2024
Nathan Shafer is a new media artist from Alaska specializing in augmented reality and digital humanities. He is one of the founding members of both the Meme-Rider Media Team, an art collective founded in 2000 designing early form internet memes, and Manifest.AR, the first international art collective making augmented reality works. He was profiled by PBS Digital Studios as part of an online collaboration called The Future in 2014. He also contributed chapters to the first anthology of AR-based art making, Augmented Reality Art, published by Springer in 2014; followed by chapters in Augmented Reality Games II (2019); Augmented Reality in Education (2020); Augmented Reality in Tourism, Museums and Heritage Sites (2022); and most recently Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality (2023). He received a Creative Capital award in 2020 for his Wintermoot project, a limited series of augmented reality comic books set in an alternate history Alaska. He is a co-founder of the art collective Łuk’ae Tse’ Taas and currently has an exhibition at the Anchorage Museum called Lines of Site: Comic Art and Storytelling in Alaska with fellow Łuk’ae Tse’ Taas artists Dimi Macheras and David Brame.
