Le temps du rêve - Nuit Blanche [Montreal 2012]

Le temps du rêve // The 6 Trials of Picaroo

Live shadow performance with animated video projections and black light.

Presented at APRIM in the Belgo Building for Nuit Blanche - Montreal 2012.

35 audience members are enclosed by hand-printed fabric walls. The set was created at Megalo Print Studios in Australia.

Allison Moore & Arthur Desmarteaux [Egotrip Productions] 2012.

[see images of the set: MEGALO]

Special thanks to Jesse Orr for her awesome help in puppet manipulation.

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.

[SAT]osphere

Last week I was fortunate to have a sneak peak of the new DOME construction at the [SAT] in Montreal. The Society of Arts and Technology is completely renovating their building to create a New Media arts venue, featuring an immersive video Dome that will host video/audio art projects in 360 degree surround environment. Being able to see the dome under construction was certainly inspiring and creates a lot of creative buzz in my brain. so many possibilities! We had a nice demo of a 3d blender model in action using a iphone to control your orientation in the virtual dome space. With a launch in 2011, the next year certainly promises some exciting opportunities. Thanks to Joseph Lefèvre of Mixsessions for gathering all the VJs together to have a preview.....