[allison moore web portfolio]
BIOGRAPHY
[english]
I am an artist, and cultural operator based in Montreal. I employ various materials in my artistic production, primarily video and drawing. I use both traditional methods with advanced technologies to search out new systems of presenting my work. including interactive video projects, video games, puppet performance and drawing installations. My medium does not dictate my ideas, but rather my ideas dictate the medium. My work is socially and politically conscience. I try to include a level of absurdity, humor and surrealism - in an effort to connect the natural, truisms in life to the uncanny, supernatural and mystic. My directive is in alternative storytelling, and in cultural observation.
Originally from the Pacific Coast of Canada, I am now located in Montreal and have produced projects in Ecuador, United Kingdom, Europe and North America. I became interested in the field of Digital Media while pursuing a BFA degree in Interdisciplinary Arts at the University of Concordia. After graduating in 2005 I traveled to Ecuador, to attend "The World Summit on Evolution" in the Galapagos Islands, and work with a documentary film crew. I have since worked on various film productions, in documentary, feature and experimental formats. For the past four years, I have evolved my practice through participation in residencies, workshops, exhibitions and festivals locally and internationally. I am developing new technologies in video, animation and interactive computing as an invited artist at Studio XX and the Society of Arts and Technology in Montreal. My work at Studio XX focuses on utlizing open source media tools such as Pure Data, Arduino, Gimp and now Blender 3d Game engine to expand my resources. I am also an active member at Graff Printing Studio using silkscreen, digital print, and etching.
In the summer I instruct classes in digital cinema at the Gulf Island Film and Television School (GIFTS) in BC. I was a mentor for Visual Effects, Animation, Drama, and Advanced Director classes. I have produced two major puppet theatre shows with Ego Trip Productions. I work in collaboration with artist Arthur Desmarteaux. Together, we completed all the construction of sets, puppets, lighting, black light, shadow puppetry with video and promotion/marketing. The most recent, Le pays qui n'existe pas was shown at the Cabaret Juste Pour rire during the Montreal International Fringe Festival in 2008.
My work is available for you to look at, and if you would like to use any of the images, please contact me.
[Francais]
Allison Moore est une artiste et commissaire indépendante qui fait des recherches se situant à l’intersection de l’art et de la science. Elle a obtenu un diplôme de l’Université Concordia en arts médiatiques et elle s’intéresse particulièrement à la biologie de l’évolution, à l’installation, aux arts performatifs ainsi qu’à la réalisation de films documentaires. Allison Moore a participé à de nombreux projets de création notamment au niveau de la vidéo et du théâtre de marionnettes. Elle habite présentement à Montréal et a réalisé des projets en Équateur, aux ïles Galapagos, au Royaume-Uni, en Europe et en Amérique du Nord.
allisonmoo[at]gmail[dot]com
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+ Digital Ludology - co-production with Studio XX [montreal] to create video game in Blender Game Engine
+ Les Enfants Du Surrealism - Colloboration with Dany Boudreault. Sponsered through Atelier Graff and La Maison du poesie [montreal] ON EXHIBITION NOW. maison du culture plateau mont-royal MAY 09
+ Sea Monkeys - interactive video installation for FIRE IN THE SKY exhibition at the RCC [Regional Culture Centre, Leterkenny, Ireland] ON EXHIBITION NOW. until June 2009.
+Smile Stealers, a live action animation short film. I am teaming up with PARLOR TREATS [ Jasa Baka, Tyr Jami, Todd MacDonald and friends] to create a theatre film project. Production in JUNE.
+ LABadome - residency at the SAT society of art and technology. [montreal]
