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Nate Mohler

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AI
Architecture
Meditative

"Painted Cities" explores the subconscious and imagination of artificial intelligence to create the memory and dream state of a city through the fusion of movement and ink. Digital paintings are created using multiple forms of AI, especially neural style transfer, to fuse Mohler’s videos with ink, texture, and photographs. The series was born out of a desire to immortalize memories, especially of the cities that Mohler visited.

"The places in the "Painted Cities" series are all places where I spent time during my media art studies in 2018. The views of each city often resurface in dreams and desires when one tries to escape the mundane pattern of everyday life here in Los Angeles. The cities in my work are real places, but also a figurative representation of them during something like a dream state, an imaginative moment. An ode to the presence a city has on a person. A tribute to architecture, people and culture."

All works are slow and very detailed, intended to be viewed passively and to complete space rather than attract attention.

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Nate Mohler

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Nate Mohler is a digital artist whose work explores the boundaries between memory, dreams, and artificial intelligence. His “Painted Cities” series, at the heart of his practice, delves into the subconscious and the imagination to recreate the dreamlike essence of the cities he has traveled through. By blending motion, ink, textures, and photographs, he uses AI tools, notably neural style transfer, to transform his videos into digital paintings that capture the soul of these places rather than merely their outward appearance. These works, born from his personal experience while studying media art in 2018, are an ode to the cities that have shaped his journey: real urban landscapes transformed into figurative representations, where architecture, people, and culture blend with a poetic and introspective dimension. Her work, both innovative and intimate, offers a reflection on how places inhabit us far beyond their physical reality, transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary. Her creations, slow-paced and extremely detailed, are designed to be passively contemplated, as an extension of space rather than a mere object of attention. They invite the viewer into a meditative immersion, where every detail evokes a memory, an emotion, or a dream, and where technology becomes a means of preserving and celebrating the fleeting moments of urban life.

Nate Mohler has collaborated with renowned institutions and brands, including HSBC x Condé Nast, Pharrell Williams x Lego, Porsche x Khaite (Met Gala), and The House of Macallan in Los Angeles.

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