Daniel Ambrosi is a California-based visual artist specialising in digital and AI-augmented art. He studied at Cornell University, where he received a Bachelor of Architecture and a Masters in 3D Graphics. During the 40 years since graduating, he has practised digital art, and starting in 2015, with engineering assistance from Joseph Smarr (Google) and Chris Lamb (NVIDIA), developed an enhanced version of Google’s ‘DeepDream’ technology, that has allowed him to create his large-scale immersive Dreamscape series.

Ambrosi’s practice is deeply informed by the history of landscape painting, finding particular inspiration in the works of the grand format landscape artists of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and the later nineteenth-century Hudson River School artists.

Ambrosi’s works have been shown in exhibitions and art fairs across the United States and in Europe; his work has recently been acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Digital Art (MoCDA), and in 2019 he was a finalist of the Lumen Prize for Art and Technology.

Stowe is part of Ambrosi’s innovative Dreamscape series, combining original photography, computer graphics and artificial intelligence. The landscape depicted is the English country estate of Stowe, with the famous Palladian Bridge in the foreground, and a path winding towards the Gothic Temple in the distance. This artwork is from a body of work in which the artist investigated the landscapes of the 18th-century luminary and designer Capability Brown, who shaped the estate and gardens of Stowe almost 300 years ago.

In creating this work and other Dreamscapes, Ambrosi uses computer graphics to combine several photos that he takes of the landscape, awaiting perfect shooting conditions that depend on the light, weather and time. Using the large, multi-layered digital entity that results, the artist then applies bespoke AI technology to achieve the surrealist, dreamlike effect that transforms the photographic depiction into a mesmerising vista.