From Book Two, the story of the CSS Shenandoah, the boat that fired the last shots fired in the American Civil War in the Diomede Islands.
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Wintermoot

Wintermoot

Nathan Shafer

Nathan Shafer

Wintermoot incorporates social practice, augmented reality, graphic novels, and digital humanities to form a series of interconnected epic tales of supernatural people from all over Alaska, spanning several generations. As both a mobile app and augmented graphic novel set in an alternate history Alaska, the work tells the stories of characters created in collaboration with other Alaskans, bringing together over 30 languages and cultures.

Discipline:

Multimedia, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, Visual Arts

Award Year:

2020

From Book Two, the title splash page of a Taiga forest with moose nuggets and Aqpik’s mittens.
From Book Two, the story of the CSS Shenandoah, the boat that fired the last shots fired in the American Civil War in the Diomede Islands.
From Book Two, a mysterious hero has emerged on Adak Island in the Aleutian Chain, who has transformed the island into a series of domed cities housing AIs.
From Book One, a bowhead whale is released back into the ocean, where it is rejected by halibut people at the bottom.
From Book One, Aqpik leaves Cyberingia and finds herself in Arctic City, ready to begin life anew.

About Nathan Shafer

Anchorage, AK

Photo of Nathan taken at a particularly happy moment by his wife Joelle 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. Shafer’s geobased AR works have been displayed on every continent. His work has been shown at Noxious Sector Projects, Bunnell Street Arts Center, Rhizome, ISEA, the Pratt Museum, Virtuale Switzerland, Out North Contemporary Art House and the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston. He also contributed chapters to the first anthology of AR-based art making, Augmented Reality Art, published by Springer in 2014; Augmented Reality Games II, published in 2019; and Augmented Reality in Education, forthcoming in 2020.

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. Shafer’s geobased AR works have been displayed on every continent. His work has been shown at Noxious Sector Projects, Bunnell Street Arts Center, Rhizome, ISEA, the Pratt Museum, Virtuale Switzerland, Out North Contemporary Art House and the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston. He also contributed chapters to the first anthology of AR-based art making, Augmented Reality Art, published by Springer in 2014; Augmented Reality Games II, published in 2019; and Augmented Reality in Education, forthcoming in 2020.

Photo of Nathan taken at a particularly happy moment by his wife Joelle