Urban Terrarium

Video Documentation of a new video installation created at Oboro New Media Labs in Montreal. Urban Terrarium is a video assemblage combining hand-drawn animation, photo collage and live-action video to create a panoramic videoscape of a fantastical metropolis. Based on cities I have visited and translated through my imagination, it is neither a past, present or future space but a hybrid world mashed up by mass media and globalization. I combine hand-drawn illustrations with cut-out textures from photo-imagery. These elements are composited together in After Effects to create a 3 screen wide video projection as one seamless animation. Habitants are lost in the details of the metropolitan resembling ants in their terrarium farm.

Urban Terrarium // 3 screen Video Installation from Allison Moore on Vimeo.

Sound: Arthur Desmarteaux

This project was funded by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec [CALQ], and developed in residency at Oboro New Media Labs through the New Media Grant for Young Artists, in partnership with La Caisse populaire Desjardins du Mont-Royal. The final installation of Urban Terrarium was screened for the public as part of the Les journées de la culture event in Montreal on October 1, 2011.