EXCURSIONS SOUS LA TERRE

Grandes Desejos, Allison Moore 2009

EXCURSIONS SOUS LA TERRE

photos from the exhibition at APRIM [montreal, qc] Belgo Building, Place-des-arts

until February 20, 2010

ARPRIM
Regroupement pour la promotion de l’art imprimé
372 Sainte-Catherine Ouest, espace 426, Montréal
514 525-2621
info@arprim.org
www.arprim.org

APRIM

DIARIES FROM METROPOLIS

a likely pair, Allison Moore 2009

URBAN INFILL-ART IN THE CORE PROJECT 3

DIARIES FROM METROPOLIS - ALLISON MOORE + ARTHUR DESMARTEAUX - PRINTMAKING

Definitely Superior Gallery // Thunderbay, ON

February 5 to March 6, 2010

Nationally / Internationally known Montreal based artists / printmakers Allison Moore and Arthur Desmarteaux’s artwork compliment each other in their exploration and creation, combining vivid colours, line, narratives of social and political conscience of everyday life blended with absurdity, humour, the bizarre, and surreal. Moore and Desmarteaux provide alternative storytelling and cultural observation from both ones immediate environment and popular culture creating a beautiful and fantastical artform. Both artists have been the recipient of numerous creation grants / awards / residencies and are exhibiting internationally. All part of DefSup's “Urban Infill Art in the Core” projects, join us for a Gala Opening Reception Fri. Feb.5 at 7pm, with three new exhibitions featuring regional / national / international artists - Moore and Desmarteaux will be in attendance and giving an Artists Talk. Refreshments, music, performances and of course...Art!

Gallery 2

Opening Reception: Friday February 5, 2010 @ 7pm

drawing today

Chosen ones [Allison Moore 2010]

New drawing for the exhibition in THUNDER BAY

Definitely Superior Gallery February 5-March 5, 2010

Excursions sous la terre

design by Arthur Desmarteaux

Design by Valerie Sury

Design by Allison Moore

ARTHUR DESMARTEAUX has put together a great show of screenprinted works.

I will be showing my new dry points I produced in Belem, Brasil last month.

Also in the show are JULIE DOUCET , Seripop, LE DERNIER CRI, JACYNTHE LORANGER, Dominique Pétrin, JESSE PURCELL, VALÉRIE SURY, PASCALINE KNIGHT, CAROLINE SURY and HENRIETTE VALIUM.

At ARPRIM 372, Sainte-Catherine O. #426 Show runs from January 16th to February 20th 2010 Opening Reception : January 16th from 3-6

RSVP ON FACEBOOK.

Back to Winter reality

Before....

After....

I am back to Montreal after an incredible 2 month residency in BELEM, Brasil.

Please check out the Amazon Blog for stories and eye candy.

Thank you so much to CALQ and IAP for all the support to making this opportunity possible.

EXTREMELY great thanks to ARMANDO SOBRAL, who arranged all my time in Belem, and went above and beyond making my stay comfortable and enjoyable.

The shock of temperature change from 35 degrees jungle humidity to completely frozen -20 below and snowy DRY....destroyed my body! My entire skin peeled off in a matter of days. It was kinda disgusting and fascinating at the same time.

It is all surreal now. was it all a dream?!

I now spend my days locked to my computer in my Montreal apartment, with tea and a hot water bottle editing the SMILE STEALERS.

I also have an opening this weekend at ARPRIM.

Excursions Sous la terre.

Please come by.

Looper Amazon

I have started a new blog dedicated to my adventures in the Amazon. Follow this link to keep posted, see photos and images of my research. Looper Amazon

Residency in Belem, Brazil

I am in the Amazon.

I am invited to spend two months at the IAP (Institute of Art of Para) in Belem, Brazil. It is hot and humid, and the city is vibrant and colorful. I will keep updates of my process and experience here. Follow the blog to keep updated.

www.looper.ca

SMILE STEALERS

I am making a film.

I am working in collaboration with Parlour Treats and Gut Strings to create an EPIC experimental short film, involving animation, projections, song and dance.

Smile Stealers is a short story about a girl who has a destiny to become a warrior. Her name is Tyr, like the Norse God of War. She battles the sky, saves a unicorn, escapes a Paper Moon photo booth trap and fights the Queen of a Moon and slays her children to set the smiles free. The children become stars in the sky.

Smile stealers combines analogue special effects and projections/animation with digital video and after effects animation. It will involve black and white silent film/video with transition to color, song and dance, analogue overhead projection, analogue and digital animations.

KEEP IN TOUCH ----->>>> JOIN FACEBOOK GROUP LOOOOOK PHOTOS

Looper Cube

I won a car.

Nissan gave 50 artists in Canada a brand new 2009 CUBE.

It is totally weird and funny. I never had a car.

I just drove 6000km with my mom and aunt to bring the cube from Victoria, BC to Montreal, QC. A legendary Ladies Road trip across America. To read stories and see photos visit the CUBE BLOG. If you are in Montreal, get in touch for the LOOPER CUBE mobility project.

Timber!

More advances in my Video game developed at Studio xx for the residency: DIGITAL LUDOLOGY.

falling trees!

This is a new demo of my video game progress at studio xx.  This week I had a lot of fun adding my hand drawn textures into the game.  Now it is time to design the full landscape.  But the tree is falling!  [Thanks to Julien Beausejour for master programming help.]

Timber Jack

Timber Jack is my Video game developed using Blender Game Engine.  

The game is in Progress.

I am creating this video game as part of my residency, Digital Ludology at Studio XX.
Game Design by Allison Moore
Programming by Julien Beausejour

The Current images are temporary. My game will eventually feature hand-drawn illustrated textures for the character, trees and landscape. The game will also feature tree-hugger hippies and forest creatures who defend the trees. Progress is recorded by a point system during a restricted amount of game time.   Using 2D paper-cut animation style in 3D environment.

Smile Stealers

I am teaming up with PARLOR TREATS [ Jasa Baka, Tyr Jami, Todd MacDonald and friends] to create SMILE STEALERS.

Smile stealers will be a live action animation short film. It will combine analogue special effects and overhead projection/animation with digital video and after effects animation.

Smile Stealers is a short story about a girl who has a destiny to become a warrior. Her name is Tyr, like the Norse God of War. She battles the sky, saves a unicorn, escapes a Paper Moon photo booth trap and fights the Queen of “A Moon” and her Moon Children to set the smiles free. 

By encompassing song, dance, theatre design, animation (both digital and analogue projections) we strive to create a Gestamkunstwerk; a total work of art that encompasses all aspects/dimensions of the arts.

THIS IS A sample SCENE from the film.  Production will start JUNE.

[join the facebook group to keep in touch.]

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Lion fights the sky.

Sky wins though he is slashed and dripping by the end, after suffocating the Lion.

He now has the two halves of the smile (vessel of ultimate power).

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mange moi je suis seul \ eat me I'm so lonely

image: Mange moi je suis seul, eat me I'm so lonely ; Allison Moore et Dany Boudreault

image: Mange moi je suis seul, eat me I'm so lonely ; Allison Moore et Dany Boudreault

Montréal, le 7 mai 2009 

Dans le cadre du 10e Marché de la 

poésie de Montréal, les Ateliers Graff, la Maison de la poésie 

et la maison de la culture du Plateau-Mont-Royal collaborent 

pour présenter Les enfants du surréalisme. L’exposition se 

tiendra du 14 mai au 14 juin 2009 à la maison de la culture 

du Plateau-Mont-Royal et le vernissage aura lieu le 14 mai 

à partir de 17 h 30. 

Cinq artistes et cinq poètes de la relève ont été conviés à créer en duo une œuvre ayant comme trame de fond 

l’héritage du surréalisme et dans laquelle les mots et les images entrent en dialogue. Les duos d’artistes et 

de poètes participants sont ainsi composés : Catherine Bond et Isabelle Gaudet-Labine, Mathieu Jacques 

et Corinne Larochelle, Allison Moore et Dany Boudreault, Ianick Raymond et Catherine Lalonde, Étienne 

Rochon et Daphnée Azoulay. 

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LES ENFANTS DU SURRÉALISME 

Du 14 mai au 14 juin 2009 

À la maison de la culture du Plateau-Mont-Royal 

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LABodome Residency at the [SAT]

A video of my first ever live video performance.

This is the end result of my residency at the [sat] society of art and technology.  It was an intense 4 week crash course into mixing video material live for the immersive hemisphere dome.  Big thanks to Joseph Lefèvre(jocool), Dominic, and Nelson at the [SAT] for their instruction and help.   Also HUGE thanks to Jan Pienkowski for his live Music mix and Marcel Achard, my partner who helped do back up mixing of my video on the Photon.

++ Sorry for absolutely ROUGH video quality!   I will upload better soon!  ++

LETTERKENNY_photo diary

I had an amazing trip to Letterkenny last week to set up my installation Sea Monkeys in the Regional Cultural Centre of Donegal County, IRELAND.  The exhibit Fire in the Sky features 7 international new media artists.   HUGE thanks to Sally Murphy, John Cunningham, and the technician Guy for all their hard work, and especially curator Ruth McCullough for bringing everything together.  It was also especially great to meet the other artists, Brian MacDonald and Matthew Biederman who were also present to install their works.  

 image: Sea Monkeys, Allison Moore 2009

Artists Brian MacDonald and Matthew Biederman

"A Stolen Rigbuouy - a Stolen Life"

Artist Brian MacDonald shooting video

I found a group of playmobile people on the beach

Yellow flowers and the ruins of a train bridge

Glenveagh National Park

a nice view, a moment of reflection

stone heads

Cherry blossoms and angels

Sea Monkeys

FIRE IN THE SKY

image: Anita Fontaine, Knight Shift

FIRE IN THE SKY: International New Media

REGIONAL CULTURAL CENTRE, Letterkenny, Donegal County, Ireland

24 April – 20 June 2009

FIRE IN THE SKY showcases the finest new media art from Canada. With exciting work from emerging artists working in animation, illustration, interactive media and video, including Matthew Biederman, Myron Campbell, Anita Fontaine, Brian MacDonald, Allison Moore and Michael Pelletier.

A special artists talk and gallery tour will take place on Friday 24th April at 6pm (prior to the official opening). Everyone is welcome. On Friday 24th April 2009 at 6pm (prior to the official opening). Everyone is welcome.

SEA MONKEYS!

Sea Monkeys is an interactive video installation featuring people swimming in a video aqaurium.  The project uses Pure Data, motion sensors, Arduino, and Boids Algorithm.  Pure Data is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing.  Each swimmer’s position in the aquarium is manipulated using Boids algorithm, an artificial life program, simulating the flocking behavior of fish.    To be presented at the FIRE IN THE SKY exhibit of Canadian New Media Art  at the Regional Cultural Centre in Ireland.  April 2, 2009.

blue screen

Last week I had a great time using the blue screen at the SAT (society of art and technology) to film my sea monkeys.  

Thanks to everyone who came out, I really appreciate your help.

And the videos look great!

BLENDER!

no...I did not buy a new Osterizer.  

Actually I am working in Blender Game Engine right now.

I am in residence at Studio xx, invited as one of 5 artists for an intensive workshop series to make a video game using Blender Game Engine.  It is my first project modeling in 3d space.  My video game is TIMBER JACK.  I am creating a video game about lumberjacks, using my illustration work animated and made interactive in video game land.  Timber Jack examines the silviculture industry and explores allegorical games involving morality in first person role playing mode. 

As a lumber jack it is your job to cut down trees.  This is what you will look like...

Super Super HAPPY!!!

Super Super Happy! 

Allison Moore et Arthur Desmarteaux 2009

44 x 90 inches

Digital Print on Epson Matt

Printed at Graff Studios, Montreal

Come visit the exhibition in Point-Aux Trembles to see SUPER SUPER HAPPY live. (until April 12.09)

ELecTroChoc!

image: Electrochoc, Arthur Desmarteaux et Allison Moore 2009

ELeCtrOcHOc!

Exposition à la Maison de la culture Pointe-aux-Trembles 
14001, rue Notre-Dame Est
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27 février au 12 avril 2009
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Vernissage Party
Friday Night cinq a sept (17h - 19h) 
27 février

Featuring Arthur Desmarteaux and Allison Moore
and the Grande Murale SUPER SUPER HAPPY!
venez célébrez

[ your personal trip planner ] 
Friday NIGHT
16h10 Berri-UQAM-Ligne verte dir. Honoré-Beaugrand
16h28 Station Honoré-Beaugrand
16h30 # 184 Métrobus Bout-de-l'Ile dir. Est
16h54 53e Avenue / Notre-Dame
16h54 Walk for 350 metres
16h59 14001, rue Notre-Dame est (Montréal [Pointe-aux-Trembles])
17h DRINK WINE!

www.looper.ca

www.arthuro.ca The show runs until April 12, 2009. Image: Super Super Happy (sketch) Allison Moore et Arthur Desmarteaux 2009

SEA MONKEYS!!

Sea Monkeys is an interactive video installation using Pure Data, Sensors, arduino and Boids Algorithm. This video schema explains the project, and the work in progress.

Soon I hope to film my swimmers against a green screen, so I can integrate the videos in my sea monkey project.