“Questions for the Curious Orchard” by Nate Mohler, is a site-specific public art installation commissioned for Code:Art 2023. This installation features 17 hand sewn fabric trees controlled by a network of DMX-controlled fans sharing power with one another and deflating depending on the presence of people moving about.
Public Art,Interactive Installation,Sculpture
“Painted Cities'' explores the subconscious and imaginative tool of machine intelligence to create the memory and dream state of a city through the fusion of motion and ink.
Public Art,Film,NFTs,experiments
Rise and Fall by Nate Mohler, Matea Friend and David Friend, is a work about the embodiment of letting go and moving through – reminding us to be like water.
Culver Current, consists of a 9-foot tall cylindrical steel frame with 494 LED panels inside a custom thermoformed Corian® shell. Projected video illuminates the Corian® surface from within, diffusing along ripples cut into the surface. Culver Current’s fountain uses no actual water. Instead, a series of video art works reflective of the greater Los Angeles and Culver City area are projected on the facade of the cylindrical sculpture.
“The Curious Entanglement of All Things”. A 16min installation featured at Luminex LA 2022 featuring Ice as a canvas for light + sound. The beginning had a quicker more dissident tone, the visuals are excerpts from another piece I did called “Walking through Time” with images of a man walking through city streets, forest fires, and crowds of people.
Public Art,Interactive Installation,Sculpture,Projection Mapping
In The Eventual Unraveling of Everything we explored the myriad and complex intricacies of entropy as well as the interconnectedness of the systems that make up our universe.
Mixed Media Installation. July 2021. — Fabric, video projection, sound, cement, warehouse, person. Close up documentation. Initial build for a continuously evolving series. Intended to be touched.
“6ft Apart” (~25min) — two monolithic sculptures encapsulating a reflection of anxiety and discomfort, hung in limbo and free to sway or fall. Spinning and dancing among themselves, alone but together.
[Be]coming To Terms was an experiential installation that turned a dark, industrial space into a virtual landscape through light, sound and atmosphere. The piece was a fortress and sanctuary, a shift in reality, reminding us of our interrelation.
For my capstone project I built a public art installation at UCLA. I chose a facade of the Broad Art Center that holds four Henri Matisse statues, and re-imagined what the architecture would look like if it could react to the energy and the temporal nature of the sculpture garden.