Nathan Shafer
Non-Local: Cosmic Constant MRPG
About the Artist
Nathan Shafer is a global artist, writer and educator from Anchorage, Alaska. Since 2000 he has been working with expanded media, constructing a wide range of socially interactive and technology based projects. He recently founded the Institute for Speculative Media, which develops new media curriculum, after-school programs, and provides access to mobile technology for kids in Alaska. Since 2011 he has been an Art House Resident at Out North Contemporary Art House where he has been designing mixed reality projects in the Arctic including the Exit Glacier AR Terminus Project, which digitally reconstructed the former termini at Exit Glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park using mobile augmented reality. He received his MFA in New Media from Rutgers University in 2008.
