NATHAN SHAFER
new media artist
contact@nshafer.com

INTERACTIVE PRINT/AR PROJECTS:

Cover epub | print | comixology

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Interior 2

Interior 3

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

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

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

'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

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 *

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

Subarctic Adventure AR Hammerspace (Tilberi and Troll Cat)

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 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

Hairy Man on the Summer Tundra

Qupqugiaq, Pack Ice

Land Otter Safety Patrol

Space Weather (Northern Lights)

Fireweed, Glacier

Dumpster, Ravens

Qupqugiaq Augments (video game collecting pilot bread and fireweed)

Dumpster, Ravens Augments

Northern Lights Augments

Land Otter/ Moose Nugget Augments

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:

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)

>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