A Cyberingian bedtime story from the worlds of Wintermoot.

Nathan Shafer, a writer, special education teacher based in Anchorage, and 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.

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Łuk’ae Tse’ Taas or Fish Head Soup collective of Alaska Native comic artists and writers, which aims to share visual stories of Alaska’s rich regional cultures. The comic collective is in-residence at the Bunnell Street Arts Center in Homer for March.

The name of the comic collective — Łuk’ae Tse’ Taas’ or Fish Head Soup — represents the members coming together like a nourishing soup, coming from the Ahtna tradition and language work with Chickaloon village elders.