Nathan Miner

I make art about the active construction of our experiential realities.

My practice is based on combinations of painting and digital imagery, with early paintings (circa 2005) using hybridizations of digital/analog feedback processes that combined photography and painting in mixed media. Photographic structures became architectures I would paint into and from which I would extract derivative structures. In 2014, a residency and exhibition, "The Long Now" at Montserrat College of Art, put that process on view.

In 2020, "GHOSTWRITER" at Steven Zevitas Gallery opened the paintings into augmented reality. The "Cloud Atlas" canvases hung on the wall while a custom app, GhostwriterXR, let a viewer look through them into virtual space and stand inside the image. These works dissolved the threshold between the analog and the digital, combining seeing and creating.

Current projects, including Hyperfield, carry the creation of this work further into the experience of embodiment, where a participant's breath, heart rate, and movement become the live material of a bio-interactive environment they shape in real time. The substrate of this work is now actively built from the physiology of audience engagement. Mark-making in Hyperfield is directly connected to the user's movement and pulse. These new media artworks ask questions similar to those of my earlier paintings about the witnessing of reality as an emergent co-creative process.

Seeing and sensing are physical acts of creation, and in this work, that process becomes the experiential subject; making it visceral, empowering, and awe-inspiring is the objective of my creative practice.