Dekker Dreyer (born November 16, 1980) is an American multi-disciplinary artist working in film, visual art, and music[1] also known as Phantom Astronaut.

His first mid-length project The Arcadian, depicts a fascist post-apocalyptic world through a pop art lens, starring Lance Henriksen with the music of Perturbator[5][6][7][8] which was released on collector's edition VHS alongside international midnight screenings.

[12][13] Dreyer is known musically as Phantom Astronaut[14][15] and his first EP, Lucid, was released in 2019 as a virtual reality visual album with Good Men Project saying, "The experience evokes a mash-up of Twin Peaks and 2001 with a Sigur Ros soundtrack produced and remixed by Massive Attack".

[23] In comics, Dekker is a writer and illustrator,[24][25] His work includes Mondo Atomic, which retells the stories of Plan 9 from Outer Space, Robot Monster, and other B movies in a contemporary way.

[27] In 2022 he launched a TikTok account dedicated to short fiction which attracted over ten million views and over one hundred thousand followers in the first month.

[38] His augmented reality live experience The Summoning has been called a "First of its kind" by UploadVR and received wide recognition for its innovative use of technology and creativity.

Dreyer and his partner Julia Howe proclaimed that any person coming to the pop-up restaurant with proof that they were attacked by sharks would get free sushi resulting in national coverage and raised awareness for ecological conservation.

[52][53][54] His second cuisine-based art experience was L'Aldila, a supernatural restaurant in the heart of Spiritualist camp Cassadaga, Florida, where patrons were encouraged to commune with the dead during their meals.

generated works include the series Sacred + Profane presented as part of the exhibit A Kind of Alchemy by the International Journal for Digital Art History and the Phantom Astronaut Dead Channel on Twitch.

[56][57] Dreyer's most controversial experimental work is the project Tentacle Grape, produced in partnership with his wife, to bring awareness to a rising tide of misogyny in pop culture in an era predating Gamergate and related right-wing movements.

[62] In 2007 he and his partners launched the Illusion On-Demand network, a science fiction television channel geared toward supporting independent genre filmmakers.

[79] Dreyer is an outspoken essayist writing on the topics of human rights, race, sexual identity, and other social issues from a perspective left of center in U.S.