Painted Cities-- New York | 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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“Williamsburg Hearts”
— 3840 x 2160 | 1m 30s.
Ai neural style transfer treatment of footage of the Williamsburg Bridge taken by Mohler in 2021. A continuation of the "Painted Cities" series which explores the subconscious of Ai and painted video. Part of the generative and Ai art movement. Full 2min 37sec video available for collectors upon request. The process consists of first going out and filming moments around New York, in this case specifically the famous Williamsburg Bridge. I look for moments with high levels of motion and architecture. I then go out and capture photographs from around Neighborhood 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
“Brooklyn Memories”
— 3840 x 2160 | 1m 30s.
Ai neural style transfer treatment of footage of the Williamsburg and Manhattan Bridge taken by Mohler in 2021. A continuation of the "Painted Cities" series which explores the subconscious of Ai and painted video. Part of the generative and Ai art movement. Full 2min 12sec video available for collectors upon request. The process consists of first going out and filming moments around New York. I look for moments with high levels of motion and architecture. I then go out and capture photographs from around Neighborhood 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
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“Tags on Brooklyn”
— 4k (3840 x 2160) | 1m 8s.
Ai neural style transfer treatment of drone footage of Brooklyn taken by Mohler in 2021. Originally exhibited at "Unsolicited Airdrop" in New York November 3rd-5th, 2021. A continuation of the "Painted Cities" series which explores the subconscious of Ai and painted video. The process consists of first going out and filming moments around New York. I look for moments with high levels of motion and architecture. I then go out and capture photographs from around the neighborhood 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
“Lick the City”
— 4k (3840 x 2160) | 58.
Ai neural style transfer treatment of drone footage of New York taken by Mohler in 2021. Originally exhibited at "Unsolicited Airdrop" in New York November 3rd-5th, 2021. A continuation of the "Painted Cities" series which explores the subconscious of Ai and painted video. The process consists of first going out and filming moments around New York. I look for moments with high levels of motion and architecture. I use neural style transfer with a particular set of rules to apply the color, style, and tone to the base texture of the input video, creating completely new imagery. Harnessing the machine as a tool to imagine.Sound by Luke Mombrea
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“Reflections in the City”
— 4k (3840 x 2160) | 2m 28s.
Ai neural style transfer treatment of drone footage of Central Park taken by Mohler in 2021. Originally exhibited at "Unsolicited Airdrop" in New York November 3rd-5th, 2021. A continuation of the "Painted Cities" series which explores the subconscious of Ai and painted video. The process consists of first going out and filming moments around New York. I look for moments with high levels of motion and architecture. I use neural style transfer with a particular set of rules to apply the water color style and tone to the base texture of the input video, creating completely new imagery. Harnessing the machine as a tool to imagine.Sound by Luke Mombrea
“Streets of Streets on NYC”
— 4k (3840 x 2160) | 2m 30s.
Ai neural style transfer treatment of drone footage of Union Square Park taken by Mohler in 2021. Originally exhibited at "Unsolicited Airdrop" in New York November 3rd-5th, 2021. A continuation of the "Painted Cities" series which explores the subconscious of Ai and painted video. The process consists of first going out and filming moments around New York. I look for moments with high levels of motion and architecture. I then go out and capture photographs from around the neighborhood 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
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“Streets on the Skyline”
— 4k (3840 x 2160) | 2m 37s.
Ai neural style transfer treatment of footage of the Williamsburg and Brooklyn Bridge taken by Mohler in 2021. Originally exhibited at "Unsolicited Airdrop" in New York November 3rd-5th, 2021. A continuation of the "Painted Cities" series which explores the subconscious of Ai and painted video. The process consists of first going out and filming moments around New York. I look for moments with high levels of motion and architecture. I then go out and capture photographs from around the neighborhood 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
“Shipping Williamsburg”
— 4k (3840 x 2160) | 1m 8s.
Ai neural style transfer treatment of drone footage of Brooklyn taken by Mohler in 2021. Originally exhibited at "Unsolicited Airdrop" in New York November 3rd-5th, 2021. A continuation of the "Painted Cities" series which explores the subconscious of Ai and painted video. The process consists of first going out and filming moments around New York. I look for moments with high levels of motion and architecture. I then go out and capture photographs from around the neighborhood 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
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“Central Park in the Blur”
— 4k (3840 x 2160) | 2m 33s.
Ai neural style transfer treatment of drone footage of Central Park taken by Mohler in 2021. Originally exhibited at "Unsolicited Airdrop" in New York November 3rd-5th, 2021. A continuation of the "Painted Cities" series which explores the subconscious of Ai and painted video. The process consists of first going out and filming moments around New York. I look for moments with high levels of motion and architecture. I use neural style transfer with a particular set of rules to apply the water color style and tone to the base texture of the input video, creating completely new imagery. Harnessing the machine as a tool to imagine.Sound by Luke Mombrea
“Histories of Rooftops”
— 4k (3840 x 2160) | 2m 52s.
Ai neural style transfer treatment of drone footage of Union Square Park in New York taken by Mohler in 2021. Originally exhibited at "Unsolicited Airdrop" in New York November 3rd-5th, 2021. A continuation of the "Painted Cities" series which explores the subconscious of Ai and painted video. The process consists of first going out and filming moments around New York. I look for moments with high levels of motion and architecture. I use neural style transfer with a particular set of rules to apply the water color textures and tone to the base texture of the input video, creating completely new imagery. Harnessing the machine as a tool to imagine.Sound by Luke Mombrea
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