NATHAN SHAFER
new media artist
contact@nshafer.com


INTERACTIVE PRINT/AR PROJECTS:

Wintermoot Book One: Aqpik and Mars Apple

Cover

epub | print | comixology

Interior

1

Interior

2

Interior

3

Publications from Dirigibles of Denali

Three Domed Cities
Volume One
epub | print


The Science Fiction Omnibus
Volume Two
epub | kindle | print

Gravel Proposes McKinley Bubble
Volume Three
epub | print

Seward's Success
Volume Four
epub

The Three Domed City Proposals from Dirigibles of Denali

Arctic City
(Design by Frei Otto)
Located near Kotzebue

Seward's Success
(Design by Tandy Industries)
Located Point MacKenzie

Denali City
(Design by Mike Gravel)
Located at Tokositna
 

Denali City Adventure (Mobile AR Videogame Targets)

Li Dnay at Basecamp at Tokositna Glacier

Li Dnay Crossing the Tokositna into Denali City

Denali City

Aqpik and Mars Apple in Denali City

Aqpik and Mars Apple Leaving Denali City

Denali View

Anchorage Narratives

'Paid in Kind',
Anchorage Narratives 1
written by Kris Farmen

'How We Made Summer Fish Camp', Anchorage Narratives 2
written by Angela Yatlin Gonzalez

'Mudcakes and Shrew',
Anchorage Narratives 3
written by Dawnell Smith

'The Enchanted Drum',
Anchorage Narratives 4
written by Ademola Bello

Cheechako Wizard Suicide Runners (Mobile AR Videogame Targets)

Roadside Ghosts, Toursits with Cameras, Pull-off *

Naked Time Traveler, Tidewater Terminus, Seals *

Boretide, Dirigible Pilot Bread *

Dipnetting on Kalifornsky Beach, Campfires *

Dirigible, Domed City*

Shapeshifting Birds in a Cloudberry Patch, Blimps *

Cheechako Wizard Suicide Runners (Geo-AR Hammerspaces)

AR Hammerspaces (Butterknot, Dirigible Salmon Roe, Quantum Fish Slime)

Subarctic Adventure AR Hammerspace (Tilberi and Troll Cat)

Subarctic Adventure (form the Cheechako Wizard Suicide Runners Mobile AR Videogame)

Arctic Adventure (Reconstructed Treasure Hunter's Cave)

Dipnetting with Corvids and a Cheechako Wizard, Suicide Run from Seward's Success

Alternate Reality Sprite Chart in the Style of Arctic Adventure

The Fifth Column and the Lek Gangs (First Start Screen)

Sourpunk, Cyberdough
(a site-specific videogame set on the Homer Spit in Alaska)


Sourpunk, Cyberdough
AR Videogame story on the Homer Spit

Start Level at Bunnell Street
AR Videogame story on the Homer Spit

Space Weather Entrance
AR Videogame story on the Homer Spit

Tarpville on the Beluga Slough
AR Videogame story on the Homer Spit

Cachemasters of Pixel Fjords
(targets were created for the junaio app, augments are documented below)

Hairy Man on the
Summer Tundra


Qupqugiaq, Pack Ice

Land Otter Safety Patrol

Space Weather
(Northern Lights)

Fireweed, Glacier

Dumpster, Ravens

Cachemasters of Pixel Fjords (Augments)

Qupqugiaq Augments
(video game collecting pilot bread and fireweed)


Dumpster, Ravens Augments

Northern Lights Augments

Land Otter/ Moose Nugget Augments
Non-Local

Non-Local: Cosmic Constant MRPG
at Noxious Sector Projects, Seattle, WA

Non-Local: Cachemasters of Pixel Fjords
at the Alaska Humanities Forum during the Latitude event

Non-Local: A Few Notes Concerning Alaskan Death Metal
Screengrab from Cirque Magazine

GEOBASED AUGMENTED REALITY PROJECTS:


Seward's Success
Geolocative AR of the unbuilt city of Seward's Success


Exit Glacier
Geolocative AR of 5 of the former termini at Exit Glacier
Built on location in Kenai Fjords National Park, Seward, AK

Borealises
Anchorage, AK
(During a white-out)

Leg Godt Inuksuit
Various collaborative lego -style inuksuit made with kids in Alaska.


Architeuthis, aka Archie
AR giant squid made from description
in 'Spook Country'

Dena'ina Caches
AR ethnogeography of the Upper
Cook Inlet are based on Shem
Pete's Alaska

OTHER MEDIA PROJECTS:

Robokonon & the Cosmic Co-Ed
(site traffic data used to generate conceptual art projects for a website)


Average Extraterrestrials
(all alien characters from Star Wars and Star Trek averaged together)


Roboticalypsos
(the Calypsos from 'Cat's Cradle' translated into Binary)

Referrer Report
(example of site traffic data used to make new work)

Cosmic Image Macros
(web speak and space image macros)
Reality Hacks

>H/H+ Badass Meme-Rider Re-Imagining of the <Y2K Flow Chart for the Occidental Memeology of the Aesthetic of 'Cool'

New Media Age Tag Cloud of Literary Punk from the Stone Age to the Omega Point, Possibly Cirrus

Chaos Magickian's Reality Hack of Rosalind Krauss's Amazing, Technicolor Expanded Field

Qunatum Molecular Gastronomy Field Illustration of Both Cooking & Werewolves of a Certain Structural Order