Ground Control Touring

The Glitch Princess, Nat Ćmiel, was born 16 December 1997 in Singapore, Singapore. Nat Ćmiel is a non-binary painter, musician, performance artist and cyborg entity.

In Ćmiel’s adolescent years, they developed a strangely deep connection to the internet. This is where Cmiel found people who understood them more so than their real life peers. This powerful nature of digi-empathy was solidified when Cmiel’s life experiences and unusual interests lead them to connect to a niche community of like-minded cyborgs who found each other on both the dark web and through MMORPG gaming.

Ćmiel began to develop traits of a “hikikomori” in the winter of 2012. While abstracted from their contemporaries, online personas allowed for neon, spectral dreams and overflowing imagination. Other times the digital sphere left them stifled, blurring the lines between fabricated realities and corporeal life. Their digital immersion and social isolation from a young age led to an…