Join us on Tuesday, March 31 at 6pm for a Zoom-based lecture
Note: you’ll be prompted to install the Zoom app, if you don’t already have it installed. You can install the Zoom app via the link above, at any time prior to the event.
Introducing QUARANTINE EDITION
After cancelling our last lecture, we realized that we have design on our side. With the present COVID-19 pandemic, the Alaska Design Forum invites you to join us as we explore something new and exciting: Virtual ADF. Our first program with Virtual ADF will be QUARANTINE EDITION and we hope to expand this platform further into a variety of endeavors. The QUARANTINE EDITION of Virtual ADF will bring the discussions we are known for directly to your devices, continuing to encourage dialogue about design in new and innovative ways!
As a group of designers, we are constantly examining how to innovate and grow, and the work of Nathan Shafer reminded us that the virtual and augmented world are here to provide relief during these times of isolation.
Our first QUARANTINE EDITION event will be on Tuesday, March 31 at 6pm.
Note: you’ll be prompted to install the Zoom app, if you don’t already have it installed. You can install the Zoom app via the link above, at any time prior to the event.
In an additional program provided by QUARANTINE EDITION, Shafer will explore his augmented reality project Dirigibles of Denali, a project that examines three futuristic unrealized cities in Alaska and how they are now reconsidered. What can we learn from these cities? How are they applicable today? Join us as we discuss and explore this virtual project.
About Nathan Shafer
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, Unseen Sculptures, Bunnell Street Arts Center, Rhizome, ISEA, 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. He received a Creative Capital award in 2020 for his Wintermoot project, a limited series of augmented reality comic books set in an alternate history Alaska.
