Nate Siggard

Hi, I'm Nate 👋

I have been designing and engineering digital interactive experiences professionally since 1999.

I specialize in making the latest technologies easy to understand and apply for artists, business owners, and leaders who want to create a better world.

Currently:

AI research & development
Producing media & tech for top-line entertainment with Khaos Digital
Incubating startups, developing intellectual property, and consulting at Authentic Creative

Past

Started getting paid to build web user interfaces in 1999.
I left tech in 2008 to become a tattoo artist.
I did Sublime with Romes album art for their debut album Yours Truly and then toured with them for two years 2011-2012.
I did a ton of projection mapping for music festivals, musicians, DJs, and created original projection mapped art and augmented reality from 2013-2015.
I invented Soundwave Tattoo that can play back with augmented reality in 2017 and received substantial international press.
Founded (2017), built and sold (2023) Skin Motion.

Random facts

Internet archive has snapshots of my website from the past 20 years [here].

This version has a decent selection of tattoo photos when I still kept track of (and promote) them.

I only tattoo friends and family on extremely limited circumstances at this point. I'd like my neck and my body to age less the next decade than they did the last. Tattoos are expensive because the artists are not just giving you their hours, they're giving away their physical well being so that you can upgrade your vessel.

Once I had kids and stopped traveling, I became obsessed with gardening, aquaponics, rebuilding soil, permaculture, earthbag construction, and all the adjacent rabbit holes to do with solarpunk, offgrid, and regenerative ecology.

I am always looking for ambitious individuals to collaborate with.