Mystic Vale

Mystic Vale is a forested ravine in Victoria, the traditional territories of the Lkwungen (Lekwungen) peoples, near where the artist
grew up. The Douglas fir ecosystem located on the Hobbs creek watershed features 75 native plant and wildlife species. For the past 8 years the artist has been using photogrammetry techniques to capture the forest environments on Vancouver Island as a way to document and archive the forest ecosystems. The photos are processed using triangulation to generate 3D model point clouds, which are then reconstructed into virtual environments to create generative animations. The viewer is submersed into a mossy lush temperate rain forest. Original sound composition features field recordings of the forest designed by Arthur Desmarteaux.

  • Allison Moore
    Director
    Smile Stealers, Cloud Bodies
  • Allison Moore
    Writer
  • Allison Moore
    Producer
  • Allison Moore
    Lead Artists
  • Arthur Desmarteaux
    Key Collaborators
  • Project Type:
    Virtual Reality, Installation
  • Genres:
    Experimental, new media, documentary
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 51 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 30, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    5,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Allison Moore

ALLISON MOORE is a new media artist working in expanded cinema and based in Montréal and holds an MFA in film from Concordia University. Her work has been programmed at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, le Grand théâtre du Québec, Society of Art and Technology (Montreal), Place des Arts (Montreal), Tokyo Arts and Space (Japan), OBORO (Montreal), Traverse Video (France), Museu de Arte de Belem (Brazil), Festival of Nouveau Cinéma (Montréal), FIFA Experimental (Montréal), MAPP Festival, MUTEK Montreal and ISEA 2020. Her recent projects involve thematic inspirations of storytelling narratives in digital arts, video-mapping landscapes and architecture, VR, site-specific public art and performance. Moore's works reinterpret and rebuild the world as a metaphoric landscape in which sensitive beings are in synergy with their allegorical macrocosm. Moore works as a freelance editor, compositor and animator as well as teaching workshops in New Media practices. www.allisonmoore.net

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Mystic Vale is a forested ravine in Victoria, the traditional territories of the Lkwungen (Lekwungen) peoples, near where the artist grew up. The Douglas fir ecosystem located on the Hobbs creek watershed features 75 native plant and wildlife species. For the past 8 years the artist has been using photogrammetry techniques to capture the forest environments on Vancouver Island as a way to document and archive the forest ecosystems. The photos are processed using triangulation
to generate 3D model point clouds, which are then reconstructed into virtual environments to create generative animations. The viewer is submersed into a mossy lush temperate rain forest. Original sound composition features field recordings of the forest designed by Arthur Desmarteaux.