Allison Moore: Fresque Grotesque

Next date: Friday, 06 June 2025 | 09:00 AM to 02:00 PM

Grotesque Fresco is a generative video work inspired by opera, mythology, and grotesque painting, a decorative art style from the Italian Renaissance era. The immense animated painting is a v visual and digital ode to live arts, the visual composition suggests fragments of fantastic stories with a gallery of earthy characters interwoven with motifs of candelabra, foliage, flowers, insects, birds and flowers. 

Combining various digital and cinematographic techniques, such as live-action filming with costumed performers, 2D and 3D animation, and timelapse images of plants. All visual elements are composites in a digital environment with generative animation with custom programmed algorithms. 

About the artist

Allison Moore is a renowned intermedia artist based in Montreal, specializing in immersive and expanded cinema. With a Master of Fine Arts in Film Production from Concordia University, she has built a prolific career over the past 18 years, exhibiting internationally at prestigious venues such as the Venice Biennale of Architecture, MOCA (Toronto), and the Society of Art and Technology (Montreal). Her work has also been featured in renowned festivals like MUTEK, ISEA, and the Festival of Nouveau Cinéma.

Moore’s practice is characterized by her innovative use of immersive media environments, including VR, AR, XR, and video projection mapping. She has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec, and SSHRC for her cross-disciplinary research in these areas. Her projects often involve thematic storytelling, reinterpreting landscapes through multi-screen installations, video mapping, and VR, creating sensorial experiences that engage and captivate audiences.

Image: Allison Moore Homme vert (travail en cours) 2020. Courtesy the artist.

 

 

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Multi-Arts Pavilion, mima, 96 Creek Reserve Road, Speers Point, 2284, View in Google Maps