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.

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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Happy Holidays

The Trucker

Allison Moore 2008

Lino-cut

Happy Holidays

I will stay in Quebec all winter long.

All the best wishes for 2009!

Uncle Ronnie's Pop up Holiday Art Shop_Toronto

This Holiday Season, I will exhibit a few of my new intaglio prints at the Project 165 art space in Kensington Market Toronto. My new series of etchings feature portraits of hipsters. Please stop by the Gallery at 165 Augusta Avenue in Toronto, if you are in town. Thanks to Ryan Ringer and the the great people at Methinks Presents.

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METHINKS PRESENTS UNCLE RONNIE'S POPUP HOLIDAY ART SHOP
Holiday Reception:
Saturday, December 20, 7 - 11pm

Holiday Hours:
December 20 - 24
11am - 7pm daily

New Year Hours:
January 2 - 9
12pm - 4pm

Location:
Project 165
165 Augusta Ave, Kensington Market, Toronto, ON

Inspired by the defunct rare-junk shop of an increasingly reclusive, virtually unknown Toronto art collector and hoarder of curiosities, "Uncle" Ronnie Graham, this livingroom-gift shop-installation-ki tchen table hybrid is a tribute to a rare bird and its keeper, a living memory of a distant place of careful wonder. Works sell from $20-150.

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Midnight Follies

Midnight Follies

Allison Moore 2008

Ink on nepal paper

22x30

This winter is the first time I have been able to work on my projects full time.  It feels good.

Next stop Gallery Arts Sutton. January 10-February 8 2009.  

preparing for Ville-Marie

"Hair Boy"

Ink on paper

Allison Moore [2008]

Next week I am driving up to Ville-Marie in the Abitibi Region of Northern Quebec to set up an exhibit at the Salle Augutin-Chenier.  The show is a DUO exhibit with artist and collaborator Arthur Desmarteaux.

EXPOZINE

EXPOZINE is Montreal's Annual Small Press, Comic and Zine Fair.  This year I finally participated for the first time to launch my new booklet the "Loose Lips Almanac", a contemporary collection of proverbs written by my brother, musician Bradley Thomas Moore, and illustrated by your truly.

I have always wanted to do an illustrated book work. The "Loose Lips Almanac" was an idea Brad and I came up with over coffee on our weekly Monday meeting. Brad introduced me to the wonderful proverbs of Benjamin Franklin produced for the "Poor Richard's Almanac", published between 1732 and 1758.  We decided together we should produce a booklet of proverbs for contemporary times. The results proved to be random bits of advice, not quite truisms, but playful thoughts I could illustrate.
I illustrated 8 verses altogether, although there were in the end lots to choose from. This may be the first edition of many.

Thank you to all who came by my table at expozine.
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In times of economic despair, support local artisans while keeping your carbon footprint to a bare minimum!
Looper Projects and other talented local artists will be at:

Puces Pop: Breakfast for Dinner
Saturday, December 6, 2008 11:00am - 6:00pm
St. Michel Church Hall,
Corner of St. Viateur & St. Urbain
Montreal, QC

Hot Cakes Friday, December 12, 2008 12:00pm - 7:00pm
Saturday, De

cember 13, 2008 12:00pm - 7:00pm
Sunday, December 14, 2008 12:00pm - 7:00pm
In the basement of the Saint-Enfant-Jésus Church
5035 rue St. Dominique
Montreal, QC
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PUCES POP FESTIVAL MONTREAL

Puppet Making Workshop

This October I participated in the Pop Montreal Festival as Musician, Workshop leader, craft maker and exhibiter.  I was asked to organize a puppet making workshop for the Pop Montreal Festival.  The series of workshops was organized for the pop montreal festival as part of this years KIDS POP.  All workshops took place at the Mile End Cultural Centre at 214 Bernard.

As a participant for the ShOW & Tell Event as part of the Puces Pop DIY (Do IT YOURSELF) section of the Pop Montreal Festival,  I exhibited my silkscreen prints and some of my hand puppets at the Green Room.  The puppets were made in collaboration with Arthur Desmarteaux.  I also sold my prints and embroidered shirts at the Puce Pop MArket, and played my trombone with my brother Bradley Thomas Moore for his show at the KGB.  (I played one song), making for a very amazing, busy schedule at this year's festival.

The Puppet Making Workshop was a successful event with many participants.  Although most people were under 10 years of age, the parents who brought the puppeteers were just as eager to dig in and make some puppet magic.  I brought my home-made crafted Shadow Puppet Theatre to test out the finished results.  We made mostly Brown Paper Bag puppets for the little ones... but later made some shadow puppets to try out the stage.  

Thank you to Puces Pop and the Pop Montreal Festival for such a great event, and especially to JENNY CRAIG who organized the DIY, craft market, the Show & Tell etc, etc....

Show & Tell Exhibition at the Green Room

The PUCES POP Craft Sale

The Shadow puppet play at work.  nice dragon!

Brown paper Bag Puppet Making Action

Thank you to all the participants, I hope you had fun.

Studio XX_Journés de la Culture

Saturday, September 26, 2008

It was a fun active day at Studio xx for the Journees de La Culture.  Lots of people came by to take a look, and interact with my micro-ecosystem tide pool.

Thank you to everybody that came by to visit Primordial Soup.

Thank you to Darsha Hewitt for helping with the electric wire work.

Thank you to Studio XX and CALQ for funding and support.