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Allison Moore, QC \/ CA<\/sup>Microplastics<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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A tour of artworks in public spacesas part of the Aix Biennale<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Friday, October 30, and Saturday, October 31<\/strong>from 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Place de l’Universit\u00e9<\/strong>Sciences Po Aix – 25 Rue Gaston de SaportaAix-en-Provence<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Credits<\/summary>\n

Production: MUTEKCo-production: CHRONIQUESWith support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qu\u00e9bec and the Canada Council for the Arts.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Microplastique” is an interactive urban art installation that transforms the audience into living, mutating microplastic organisms through motion capture and real-time video projection. Part game, part provocation, the work invites participants to confront the invisible presence of microplastics\u2014by embodying them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Invisible to the naked eye, microplastics are difficult to track and nearly impossible to eliminate. The installation *Microplastics* makes the invisible visible. It uses art and physical interaction to help the public grasp the scale and impact of a crisis that is otherwise abstract, elusive, and overwhelming. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the heart of the installation is a large illuminated screen connected to a motion-capture camera. When participants enter the field of view, their gestures and movements are translated into animated, shifting forms reminiscent of microplastic particles\u2014floating, twisting, and multiplying throughout the space. The visual transformations are generated in real time using AI and volumetric imaging, turning each visitor into a living portrait of synthetic pollution. Their \u201cbodies\u201d become fields of luminous debris, responding to their gestures with fluid, microbial movements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The visual experience is accompanied by an immersive, audio-responsive soundscape composed of electroacoustic and underwater sounds. The soundscape reacts to each participant\u2019s movements, evoking both the allure and the uncanny strangeness of the deep sea\u2014a space increasingly invaded by microplastic waste. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Allison Moore<\/h2>\n
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Allison Moore <\/b>is a multimedia artist who works in the field of immersive cinema. Based in Montreal (Tiohti\u00e0:ke), she holds a Master of Fine Arts (Film) from Concordia University. His work has been presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Grand Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Qu\u00e9bec, the Society for Art and Technology of Montreal, Ars Electronica, Tokyo Arts and Space, MUTEK, and ISEA. His recent projects draw inspiration from digital storytelling, video mapping of landscapes and architecture, fulldome, site-specific public art, and performance art. Moore’s works reinterpret and reconstruct the world as a metaphorical landscape in which sentient beings interact with their allegorical macrocosm. Moore works as a freelance editor, composer, and animator, and currently teaches part-time at Concordia University’s Film School.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":32372,"menu_order":0,"template":"","edition":[140],"type_oeuvre":[28,136,117],"class_list":["post-32369","oeuvre","type-oeuvre","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oeuvre\/32369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oeuvre"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oeuvre"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/edition?post=32369"},{"taxonomy":"type_oeuvre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type_oeuvre?post=32369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}