Painted Cities--   2021

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“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. The digital paintings are created using multiple forms of AI, especially Neural Style Transfer, to fuse Mohler's videos with ink, texture, and photographs. Mohler takes photographs of streets around the city or finds images with abstract textures and processes them to create visceral and abstract architectural studies. Something short of machine assisted hallucinations.  The series originated from the desire to immortalize memories, specifically of cities Mohler had visited “The locations in the series “Painted Cities” are all places I’ve spent time in. Views of each city often resurface in dreams and desires when trying to escape the mundane pattern of everyday life. 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.” All are slow and highly detailed 4k films, intended for passive viewing and complementary of space rather than fast and attention grabbing. The pieces for this series cover painted memories of New York, Rome, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, and elsewhere. Created specifically to experiment with gifting and selling video art intended to be displayed at large scale in the real world; Mohler hopes these pieces further the digital art movement and open the eyes of traditional collectors to digital mediums that are conceptual, thought provoking, and engaging even while living on a screen.

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"ROME"

-- Mohler. Dec. 1, 2020. Video: 45sec. 3840px w. 2160px h.

Ai neural style transfer treatment of footage of the Roman Forum taken by Mohler in 2018. First of the "Painted Cities" series which explores the subconscious of Ai and painted video.

"City on City"

-- Mohler. Nov. 20, 2020. Video: 45sec. 1080px w. 1920px h.

Experiments with neural style transfer, combining the style from a photo of the LA streets and this video of European city traffic. Cities on cities. Second of the "Painted Cities" series which explores the subconscious of Ai and painted video.

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"Skate Grunge"

-- Mohler. Feb.5, 2021. Video 45sec. 3840px w. 2160px h.

Ai neural style transfer treatment of footage of the Venice Skate Park taken by Mohler in 2020. Another of the "Painted Cities" series which explores the subconscious of Ai and painted video.

“Grunge City”

— Mohler. Feb. 10, 2021. 3840px w. 2160px h. 57secs.

Neural style transfer treatment of video I took of my hometown trained with 7 street photos around downtown Los Angeles. Fourth in the Painted Cities series which explores the subconscious of Ai and painted video.

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"Cinque Terre”

—Mohler. 3840 x 2160. 72secs.

Love how you can see little people walking in this. Styletransfer video art filmed by myself in 2018. Trained with watercolors. Fifth in the Painted Cities series.

“Tower Bridge”

— Mohler. 3840 x 2160. 60secs.

Neural Style Transfer research on film I took while traveling through London in 2018. Love how it starts with a historical monument and ends with the modern city skyline.

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"Basilica"

-- Mohler. March 18th, 2020. Video: 41sec. 3840px w. 2160px h.

Ai neural style transfer treatment of footage of the Basilica of SS. Ambrose and Charles on the Corso taken by Mohler in 2018. A special release for the "Painted Cities" series which explores the subconscious of Ai and painted video. Sound by Luke Mombrea.

"Amsterdam"

-- Mohler. March 18th, 2021. Video: 50sec. 3840px w. 2160px h.

Ai neural style transfer treatment of footage of the Canals of Amsterdam taken by Mohler in 2018. A special release for the Superrare Curated show: "Invisible Cities". Mohler's work aims to explore the subconscious of Ai and painted video.

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"Paris"

-- Mohler. March 18th, 2021. Video: 50sec. 3840px w. 2160px h.

Ai neural style transfer treatment of footage of the rooftops of Paris taken by Mohler in 2018. A special release for the Curated Superrare show "Invisible Cities". Mohler's series explores the subconscious of Ai and painted video.