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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.

“Purple and Gold” — 3840 x 2160 | 1min. Part of the “Painted Cities” series which explores the subconscious and imagination of machine intelligence to create the memory and dream state of a city through the fusion of motion and ink. The digital paintings are created using multiple forms of Ai, especially Neural Style Transfer, to fuse videos with ink, texture, and photographs often from the surrounding area. “Painted Cities” explores how machine intelligence can be used as a tool to extend our imagination and when fused with human moments of familiarity can create visceral feelings of nostalgia.
Part of the generative and AI art movement.
The process consists of first going out and filming moments from around Venice beach, in this case specifically the famous Venice skate park. I look for moments with high levels of motion and architecture. I then go out and capture photographs from around Venice Beach with rich texture and color. I use neural style transfer with a particular set of rules to apply the textures and color of the photograph to the base texture of the input video, creating completely new imagery. Harnessing the machine as a tool to imagine. Sound by Luke Mombrea.
ai
landscape
03:26
2021