Daniel Mirante

Daniel Mirante is a doctoral researcher, painter, author, teacher and immersive designer whose work explores the relationships between sacred art, mythology, altered states of consciousness and emerging technologies.

Research and publications

Mirante is currently undertaking doctoral research at the University of East London into the anthropology of immersion and the design of state-change environments, investigating relationships between ancestral ritual spaces, visionary experience and contemporary immersive technologies. His academic publications include Goddess of the Jewelled Web: The Transmission of the Transpersonal in Visionary Art, in Professor José Eliézer Mikosz’s arts dossier for O Mosaico; Cyberdelics: Designing Immersive Media for Transpersonal Experiences (2025), co-authored with Carl Hayden Smith and published in the EVA London proceedings; and The Politics of Consciousness and Immersive Media: An Integrative Review (2025), examining how immersive environments, ritual aesthetics and altered states intersect with questions of agency, knowledge and cultural power.

Selected publications

1. Mirante, D. (2025) ‘The politics of consciousness and immersive media: an integrative review’, Art&Sensorium, 12(1), pp. 1–14. Available at: https://doi.org/10.33871/sensorium.2025.12.10951.
2. Mirante, D. and Smith, C.H. (2025) ‘Cyberdelics: designing immersive media for transpersonal experiences’, in Proceedings of EVA London 2025. Electronic Workshops in Computing. Swindon: BCS Learning & Development. Available at: https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2025.37.
3. Mirante, D. (2023) ‘Goddess of the Jewelled Web – visionary arts’ connection to truth’, O Mosaico, 16(1). Available at: https://doi.org/10.33871/21750769.2023.16.1.7504.

Teaching and editorial history

A contemporary artist bridging traditional painting techniques and incorporating emerging media, he studied Mischtechnik with Ernst Fuchs and was a founding faculty member and teacher at the Vienna Academy of Visionary Art. He has mentored several hundred artists.

An experienced public speaker and educator, Mirante lectures on shamanism, visionary and sacred art, creative process, and the cultural history and future of immersive experience.

Projects and talks

Mirante is the author and creator of Oblatio – A World in Crisis & Healing, part of the evolving mythological universe Tales of Alibraria. Drawing upon comparative mythology, sacred cosmologies and ecological imagination, the project explores the relationships between civilisation, nature, spiritual transformation and the restoration of a fractured world. Conceived as an expansive transmedia undertaking, Oblatio brings together literary fiction, traditional painting, moving image, world-building and immersive virtual reality, translating an original mythology into a series of interconnected artistic experiences.

His creative practice extends into the design of cyberdelic environments combining virtual reality, generative imagery, spatial storytelling and mythological symbolism. His presentation Oblatio – Expanding Mythic Media into Immersion at the Cyberdelic Summit exemplifies the convergence of his literary, pictorial and technological interests.

Artistic and ceremonial practice

A dedicated ceremonialist and firekeeper, Mirante has a longstanding involvement with Amazonian shamanic traditions and contemporary entheogenic culture. From 2005 to 2020, he served as Director of Ayahuasca.com, an influential online resource dedicated to Amazonian shamanism, ethnobotany and visionary culture.

Enquiries

For speaking, research and editorial enquiries, write to thegnosticworld@gmail.com. Proposals for the Dossier and corrections to the archive are welcome through Submissions.