StandardVision Spotlight: The DTLA Skyline Digitally Immortalized by Nate Mohler
On View:
#SVLA1 Screen at the Courtyard Marriott
901 W. Olympic Blvd. – Los Angeles, CA
Playing at the top of every hour from May 17th – June 6th
StandardVision’s latest artist spotlight features a texturally rich digital painting of Downtown Los Angeles by LA-based media artist Nate Mohler on the digital facade at the Courtyard Marriott L.A. Live in downtown LA.
The thought-provoking and highly engaging film is part of Mohler’s “Painted Cities” series which explores the memory and dream state of a city through the fusion of motion and ink. The digital paintings are created using a unique technique Mohler has been developing, including multiple forms of Ai—namely Neural Style Transfer—to fuse videos with ink, texture, and photographs. It often takes weeks of testing and research before discovering the perfect synergy between motion and texture.
The process for his Los Angeles work encompasses seven different photographs taken around downtown LA, including drone footage that Mohler shot from a DTLA rooftop. Created specifically to challenge the culture of collecting paintings, Mohler hopes these pieces further the digital art movement and open the eyes of traditional collectors to digital mediums that are conceptual and thought provoking even while living on a screen.
Nate Mohler is an emerging media artist who works with technology as a paint brush to build conceptual and avant-garde experiences through digital art. A 2019 UCLA graduate with a B.A. in Design and Media Arts, Mohler is intrigued with the fusion of conceptual art and technology to support connectivity and social activism with unconventional space and sound. His work focuses on eliciting action and question through digital mediums such as projection mapping, immersive installations, sculpture and video art. Mohler treats each project as an opportunity to evoke emotion, challenge thought, or support social change.
Catch Nate Mohler’s work on the digital facade at the Courtyard Marriott L.A. Live in downtown LA on view through June 6th, and learn more about his work on his Instagram. The works from his “Painted Cities” series are also available as NFTs on SuperRare.
