Biography
Nathan Halverson is a digital media artist and educator whose work, often in sound and video, uses elements of field recording, appropriation, and live performance to investigate the intersection of sound and image and the acts of hearing and seeing. Nathan received his MFA in Kinetic Imaging from Virginia Commonwealth University and teaches at Tulane University in New Orleans.
Research
My project looks at how events like the Deep Water Horizon disaster exist in public consciousness, how we make meaning of them, and how our understanding of them is mediated by the myriad representations and representational forms available to us? I'm interested in this event as a specific example of the larger cultural moment, and specifically in how perceptions of the Deep Water Horizon spill are informed by a growing awareness of and concern for the environment and, beyond this, by the sense that we're inhabiting the anthropocene era and what some have described as “the end of nature.”
