CLOUD BODIES^CA/QC

Credit: Ash KG

Allison Moore is a Montréal-based new media artist renowned for her work in expanded cinema. Her innovative projects, showcased at esteemed venues like the Venice Biennale of Architecture and MOCA Toronto, blend narrative storytelling with digital arts, focusing on video mapping, VR, and site-specific art. Moore's art reimagines environments, integrating them with allegorical elements. In addition to her artistic practice, she contributes to the field as a freelance editor, compositor, animator, and workshop facilitator, shaping the future of New Media.
Étienne Rochon, known artistically as Arthur Desmarteaux, hails from Montréal. A graduate with a BFA from Université du Québec à Montréal in 2004, and an MFA from Concordia University in 2017, Desmarteaux has cultivated a robust trajectory as an interdisciplinary artist. His work, often showcased in Canada and internationally, explores the integration of multi-channel soundtracks within visual art realms. Utilizing advanced software, plugins, and controllers, his compositions enrich installations and performances, including shadow puppetry and video projection mappings. Co-director of Egotrip Productions since 2006, Desmarteaux continues to innovate across artistic boundaries.
Lucy Fandel, based in Montréal, merges dance, choreography, and cultural mediation into an art form that seeks to unlock the poetry of movement. Growing up in varying environments like Concord, MA, and Beaulieu sur Mer in France, she harnesses her background and studies in dance and sociology from Concordia University. Lucy's work often includes collaborations with noted artists and collectives such as Allison Moore, Sarah Wendt, Pascal Dufaux, and Daughter Product. Currently, she is crafting an installation-performance titled the windy days, exploring connections with natural and emotional landscapes.

CLOUD BODIES ^CA/QC
Live A/V

Playing with scale and perspective, CLOUD BODIES is an immersive performance that explores the body as landscape and investigates its relationship with virtual spaces. As bodies and landscapes waltz, the topography of bodies morphs with the topography of the natural world. Allison Moore’s CLOUD BODIES is a generative immersive experience in the Satosphere combining dance and technology. Using live volumetric capture, dancer Lucy Fandel’s choreography is tracked by sensors during the performance. The geometric metadata collected is processed and reconstructed in the virtual environment projected onto the dome where Fandel’s body and movements merge with digital landscapes and Arthur Desmarteaux's soundtrack.