Work in Progress

I am currently re-visiting old video footage, and working with some new animation techniques. I am using an interview with Daniel Dennet, a philosopher and author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea. I was fortunate to meet Dennett in the Galapagos Islands at the World Summit of Evolution in 2005. This video uses rotoscoping animation over the video image, mixed with other animations I have made in flash. All compiled in After Effects.

Télé-Québec: Prêt-à-sortir

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• Here is a Video made on Télé-Québec about my exhibition
  
• remue-ménage at the Salle Augustin-Chénier in Ville-Marie
• with artist Arthur Desmarteaux.
  
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• The video clip also shows the work of Doris Barrette, an illustrator exhibiting in the same gallery.
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• Allison Moore et Étienne Rochon
  
• Exposition est: JUSQU’AU 18 JANVIER 2009

Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Salle Augustin-Chénier - Ville-Marie
Salle Augustin-Chénier
(819) 622-1362

Primordial Soup Installation_Studio XX

Primordial Soup

allison moore 2008

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Documentation of my video installation at studio xx.  Project funded by the  Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Primordial Soup is an interactive video installation based on the process of evolution.

The project integrates open source softwares such as Pure Data, GEM and Arduino 11 with motion sensors.

Primordial Soup features animations of microbial forms I draw in Flash CS3.

 The animations are then imported in PD and made independent using Boids algorithm. Developed by Craig Reynolds in 1986

, Boids is an artificial life program, simulating the flocking behavior

 of birds. Boids work in a manner similar to cellular automata since each boid "acts" autonomously 

and references a neighborhood, as do cellular automata.

>> More info

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Exhibition at Arts Sutton

Arthur Desmarteaux & Allison Moore

I will be presenting my evolution scrolls

"A Story of life...or so I was told"

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They produce their work using several different techniques, including photo etching, silkscreen, woodcut, linocut, digital printing and waterless lithography. Some works combine several different techniques.

The art of Desmarteaux (a pseudonym of Étienne Rochon) is stylistically related to comic books and cartooning, but also to graffiti. “As a witness of our times, I convey my perceptions of current events and international conflicts with zesty humour. My drawings sometimes contain references to theatre, like a kind of burlesque fable,” says Desmarteaux. His works have an anti-establishment flavour and are sometimes aggressive but always playful. They have been shown at the 13^th Biennale international biennale de la gravure et des nouvelles images at Sarcelles, France and at the 5^thBiennale internationale d’estampes de Trois-Rivières. The artist lives and works in Montreal. 

Originally from Victoria, British Columbia, Allison Moore has pursued her studies in the visual arts in Montreal, Ecuador and England. She is particularly interested in the connections between the sciences and visual art. Titled “A story of life or what I have been told” her works present fantastical animal creatures in a setting that strangely resembles mythological scenes of animal origins. As a complement to her works on paper, she is also presenting a video clip. Allison Moore is very active in her community and has been involved in many creative projects, primarily working with video and puppet theatre. She lives and works in Montreal.

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Remue-méninges

Exhibition at La Salle Augustin-Chénier in Ville-Marie.

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12 décembre 2008 au 18 janvier 2009
Remue-méninges

ALLISON MOORE et Arthur Desmarteaux (Montréal)

Le duo touche-à-tout, Allison Moore et Arthur Desmarteaux, ont développé au fil des années un univers débridé où foisonne une myriade de personnages, largement inspirés de la bande dessinée et de l’illustration. Faisant appel aux procédés de la nouvelle figuration apparu dans les années 80 à New York et Paris, leur esthétique emprunte largement aux codes de l’art brut, du Pop Art, du graffiti et de l’art naïf. Leurs estampes, et le film d’animation assisté par ordinateur, ludiques, humoristiques et grivois, dénotent une grande liberté d’expression.

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. 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.
Arthur Desmarteaux, alias Étienne Rochon a étudié les arts visuels et médiatiques à l’Université de Montréal, puis à l’UQAM dont il est diplômé depuis 2003. Membre actif de l’Atelier Graff, vice-président de ARPRIM (association pour la promotion de l’art imprimé au Québec), le jeune artiste est interprète, scénographe et metteur en scène de théâtre de marionnettes et auteur de bandes dessinées.

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