Painted Cities / Nate Mohler

“Painted Cities'' 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 Mohlers videos with ink, texture, and photographs often from oil and watercolors of similar areas. “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.

The series originated from the desire to immortalize memories, specifically of moments Mohler fears forgetting.

“The cities in my work are actual places, but also a figurative representation of them during something of a dream-like state, an imaginative moment. An Ode to the presence a city has on a person. A tribute to the architecture, the people, and the culture.”

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