Christopher Moore is an artist and educator whose cross-disciplinary practice ranges from commercial publication to sculpture- and media-based installation. Christopher studied illustration at the Ontario College of Art, and received a Master of Fine Arts in Design from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. His reserach interests focus on the rhetorical and pedagogical roles of illustration in engaging communities towards social efficacy.
Christopher has been involved with performance collectives uniting visual artists, musicians, dancers, and DJs to generate live, real-time performance works. Digital images and videos are programmed into instruments, and triggered through improvised musical structures. Both audio and visuals are processed via midi signals and computer filters to create layered projections and ambient soundscapes.
Christopher has illustrated for publications both nationally and internationally, including such clients as the Globe and Mail, Labatt's, DuMaurier, and the Medical Research Council of Canada. For the past nine years, he has taught within the Communication Design program at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University, and recently served as the Department Chair in New Media at the University of Lethbridge. Christopher currently holds the position of Assistant Professor in Design + Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montreal
Research Interests
Despite the wide range of media employed in Christopher Moore's projects, each work focuses on the intersection of art and design technologies and everyday life. His past research has explored the relationship of graphic design and illustration in advancing social movements, as well as the emergence of 'folk design.' Christopher has adopted this term to describe an emerging visual language established through common availability of digital media production tools. This exploration also encompasses the responsibility of software developers in constructing a dominant aesthetic through selection of default settings.
Christopher is currently engaged in a performance practice that attempts to merge documentary cinema, theatre, and electronic music in a club-style setting. This work seeks to give voice to the disempowered and disenfranchised through a dominant media format, and in a popular culture setting. Christopher is attempting to challenge the dominant forms and vehicles of cultural expression, and to engage communities and individuals in the analysis and development of their shared identities.
Christopher has been involved with performance collectives uniting visual artists, musicians, dancers, and DJs to generate live, real-time performance works. Digital images and videos are programmed into instruments, and triggered through improvised musical structures. Both audio and visuals are processed via midi signals and computer filters to create layered projections and ambient soundscapes.
Christopher has illustrated for publications both nationally and internationally, including such clients as the Globe and Mail, Labatt's, DuMaurier, and the Medical Research Council of Canada. For the past nine years, he has taught within the Communication Design program at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University, and recently served as the Department Chair in New Media at the University of Lethbridge. Christopher currently holds the position of Assistant Professor in Design + Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montreal
Research Interests
Despite the wide range of media employed in Christopher Moore's projects, each work focuses on the intersection of art and design technologies and everyday life. His past research has explored the relationship of graphic design and illustration in advancing social movements, as well as the emergence of 'folk design.' Christopher has adopted this term to describe an emerging visual language established through common availability of digital media production tools. This exploration also encompasses the responsibility of software developers in constructing a dominant aesthetic through selection of default settings.
Christopher is currently engaged in a performance practice that attempts to merge documentary cinema, theatre, and electronic music in a club-style setting. This work seeks to give voice to the disempowered and disenfranchised through a dominant media format, and in a popular culture setting. Christopher is attempting to challenge the dominant forms and vehicles of cultural expression, and to engage communities and individuals in the analysis and development of their shared identities.
