Hello,

My name is Allison. I am a multidisciplinary creative tinker working in Montreal. I employ various materials to express myself, primarily video, installation and drawing. I combine traditional practices with advanced techniques to search out new systems of presenting my art work. including interactive video projects, video games, puppet performance and drawing installations. The medium does not dictate my ideas, but rather my ideas dictate the medium in which I work. My projects are socially and politically conscience. I try to include a level of absurdity, humor and surrealism - in an effort to connect the natural, truisms in life to the uncanny, the supernatural and the mystic. My directive is in alternative storytelling, and in cultural observation. Thank you for visiting.
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allisonmoo[at]gmail[dot]com

+BIO

+BLOG

+CV [pdf]

:: quick links ::

+Exhibition Room

+VIDEO

+Works on Paper

+Puppets

+Illustration

+AMAZON BLOG

+Smile Stealers, a live action animation short film. I am teamed up with PARLOR TREATS
[Jasa Baka, GutStrings and Castle in the Clouds] to create a theatre film project. In Post-Production 2010

+Selectee for ROGUE FILM SCHOOL with Werner Herzog. Fairfield, NJ, USA [June 2010]

+Exhibition at ARTIST PROOF GALLERY with Arthur Desmarteaux. July 2010 [Calgary, AB]

+New Media Production Grant for Young Artists, OBORO & Caisse populaire Desjardins du Mont-Royal. [2010]

+Exhibition at Instituto de Artes do Pará - IAP in Belém - Pará - Brasil. [October 2010]

+Exhibition of TIMBER JACK at HTML festival. STUDIO XX. November 2010 [Montreal,QC]

+Residency at OPEN STUDIO with Arthur Desmarteaux. March 2010. [Toronto, ON]

+Residency at ENGRAMME with Arthur Desmarteaux. May 2010. [Quebec, QC]

+MENTOR, G.I.F.T.S [Gulf Island Film and Television School] [Galiano Island, BC] Summer 2009.
Teaching classes in VFX, Animation, Digital Cinema.

Lendas Amazonia [Belem, Brazil 2009]

Research into the Amazon's stories during a residency at Instituto de Artes do Pará - IAP in Belém - Pará - Brasil. Studio Residency exchange provided by Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec [October - December 2009]

SMILE STEALERS [in production 2009 - Post-production in 2010]

Smile stealers is a live action animation short film, combining analogue special effects and overhead projection/animation with digital video effects. An Epic tragedy. A Living Cartoon. The regeneration
of the universe. Made in colloboration with PARLOR TREATS.

SEA MONKEYS (2008-2009)

Sea Monkeys is an interactive video installation using Pure Data, Sensors, arduino and Boids Algorithm. To be exhibited at RCC [Regional Cultural Centre : Leterkenny, IRELAND ] Curator Ruth McCullough

Mange moi je suis seul (2008-2009)

LES ENFANTS DU SURRÉALISME: a colloboration between the Maison du poesie and Atelier Graff. 5 artists and 5 poets are paired together to create a colloborative piece. The result is a video installation of a family dinner. Text written by Dany Boudreault.
[to be presented at the maison du culture plateau mont-royal MAY 09]

TIMBER JACK (2008- ongoing)

A video game in the style of role-playing games. Investigating ethics and economics in silviculture. You are a lumberjack. You must cut down trees with an axe or chainsaw. Obstacles are wild forest creatures, which defend their territory. The game world will be designed combining illustrations, and cut-out textures from photo-imagery

+Produced at Studio xx 2008-2009 during "Digital Ludology" intensive workshop series in Blender Game Engine
+With Julien Beausejour

PRIMORDIAL SOUP (2006 - 2008)

Primordial Soup is an interactive video installation based on the process of evolution. Pure Data, GEM and Arduino 11 with motion sensors.
Primordial Soup features animations of microbial forms I draw in Flash CS3.

+produced at Studio xx 2007-2008 during "Autonmoy and Activism" intensive workshop series on Open Source applications
+With Alexandre Quessy and electronics help by Darsha Hewitt
+Funded by CALQ research grant

A STORY OF LIFE OR SO I WAS TOLD (2006-2008)

Drawing Series executed with pen and ink washes on Japanese Washi scrolls. Each illustration details a timeline of life on Earth, from microbes to man. Inspired by natural history illustrations and renaissance zoology.
[montreal + saturna island 2007-2008]

LE PAYS QUI N'EXISTE PAS (2008)

Puppet Theatre show developed with Arthur Desmarteaux for the Montreal International Fringe Festival [presented at Cabaret Juste Pour Rire 2008]

GRAFF BANNERS (2008)

3 Large Format Digital Prints produced for Public Art Display on the facade of Graff Print Studios. 3 x (40 x 70 inches)
Produced in colloboration with Arthur Desmarteaux.
Commissioned works by Atelier Graff [montreal 2008]

Work on Paper (2002-2009)

I make a lot of drawings. I am also an active member at Graff Print Studios in Monteal. This is my 2d art.

Video Work (2003-2009)

I work as a freelance editor, and videomaker. Including documentary, feature and expiremental video production. This is mostly experimental work.

+but you can ask for a demo reel

+ R.I.P - a remix Manifesto [2009] - contribution TIME SQUARE rotoscoped

Director Brett Gaylor has created an open source documentary about copyright and remix culture. Created over a period of six years, the film features the collaborative remix work of hundreds of people who have contributed to its website, helping to create the world's first open source documentary.

+ northern bound : sound & video programming . oct 29th, 2007 . Montreal

Curatorial project featuring Video works with specific Northern Irish content. In Colloboration with Queen Street Digital Studios.
The event also included sound set Ulster Bound by artist David Drury, and live music by Belfast Andy. Event produced in collaboration with programmer Kyd Campbell. Presented at the Sala Rosa in Montreal flyer

Looper Projects BLOG + http://looperprojects.blogspot.com/
Arthur Desmarteaux + http://www.arthuro.ca
IAP + http://www.iap.pa.gov.br/index.htm
Studio xx + http://www.studioxx.org
Frontier Labs + http://www.frontierlabs.org
PARLOUR TREATS + http://www.myspace.com/parlourtreats
Darsha Hewit + http://www.darsha.org/
bradley thomas moore + http://www.bradleythomasmoore.com
DAS + http://digitalartsstudios.com/
SAT + http://www.sat.qc.ca/
RCC + http://www.donegalculture.com/