Tara Moves

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About

Portrait of Tara Rose Morris

Bio

Tara Rose Morris (she/they) is a mixed-desi Montreal-based new media artist, animator, and projection designer working across immersive installation, film, participatory art, and live performance. Working with collage-based animation and real-time visual systems, Morris builds layered audiovisual worlds that merge found media, generative processes, and architectural projection. Her work is grounded in world-building as a method for inquiry, using constructed speculative environments that audiences are invited to inhabit to explore how technologies intervene in our relationship to our bodies, identities, communities, and ecologies.

Morris has presented work internationally in galleries, festivals, public spaces, and immersive media contexts. Recent presentations include Nuit Blanche Toronto, InterAccess, MAPP Montréal, SATFest, Montevideo Film Festival, SXSW XR Experience, VIFF Signals, Charles Street Video, and the FullDome Festival Jena. Her work has been exhibited across Canada, the United States, South Korea, Uruguay, Germany, and Australia.

Recent recognitions include the Projection Mapping Award at MULTIFest, participation in NEW INC x Rhizome's Art & Code program, a residency with Caserne 26 and MAPP Montréal, and a Blue Creator Grant from the Centre for Ocean Literacy Collaboration.

Alongside her artistic practice, Morris is an educator and facilitator who develops workshops, talks, and learning experiences focused on creative technologies, animation, and emerging media. Through both her artistic and educational work, she is interested in creating new ways for people to encounter technology as a medium for imagination, collective inquiry, and alternative futures.

CV

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Education

  • 2023 MSc Fiction & Entertainment, SCI-Arc — Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • 2017 BA Media Studies, Pomona College — Claremont, CA, USA

Talks & teaching

  • 2026 Synthetic Worlds, soft_launch, InterAccess — Toronto, Canada (Forthcoming)
  • 2026 Reactive Space, soft_launch, InterAccess — Toronto, Canada
  • 2026 Internet Canvas, soft_launch, InterAccess — Toronto, Canada
  • 2026 Everything Under The Dome, PXR — VRChat, Online
  • 2026 Artist Talk, ÉTS — Montreal, Canada
  • 2025 Performing XR Worlds, Sari-Sari Xchange — Toronto, Canada (Forthcoming)
  • 2025 AI & Creativity, Toronto Public Library — Toronto, Canada
  • 2025 My Computer and I Watch Each Other, Vector Festival — Toronto, Canada
  • 2025 MOVES, DEMO 2025 — New York, NY, USA
  • 2024 Co-Creative Code, InterAccess — Toronto, Canada
  • 2024 Artist Talk & FaceMesh Micro Workshop, SITHUB — Toronto, Canada
  • 2024 Artist Talk, Signals — Vancouver, Canada
  • 2024 Artist Talk, Disney Imagineering — Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • 2024 Generating the Moving Image Workshop, NeueHouse — Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • 2023 Generating the Image Workshop, NeueHouse — Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • 2023 Edge of Surveillance Presentation & Panel, NeueHouse — Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • 2023 Introduction to Video Generation with AI Workshop, SCI-Arc — Los Angeles, CA, USA

Commissions, exhibitions & performances

  • 2026 FullDome Festival Jena, Zeiss Planetarium — Jena, Germany · Flicker and Gambol (Forthcoming)
  • 2026 Undersky, Caserne 26 — Montreal, QC, Canada · Undersky (Forthcoming)
  • 2026 FlashDrive, InterAccess — Toronto, ON, Canada · Entryway
  • 2026 Montevideo Film Festival — Montevideo, Uruguay · Flicker and Gambol
  • 2026 SATFest, Petit SAT — Montreal, QC, Canada · Flicker and Gambol
  • 2026 Geary Art Crawl, Charles Street Video — Toronto, ON, Canada · Birdworld
  • 2026 Dome Under Film Festival — Melbourne, Australia · Flicker and Gambol
  • 2025 Library Installation, École de technologie supérieure — Montreal, QC, Canada · Tendre
  • 2025 MAPP Festival — Montreal, QC, Canada · Notes to Self
  • 2025 Nuit Blanche — Toronto, ON, Canada · MOVES
  • 2025 Doors Open Toronto, InterAccess — Toronto, ON, Canada · MOVES
  • 2025 flashDrive, InterAccess — Toronto, ON, Canada · softbody
  • 2025 Open HDMI, Long Winter — Toronto, ON, Canada · softbody
  • 2025 Phantasia, It's OK Studios — Toronto, ON, Canada · MOVES
  • 2025 Mane Course, Ponyhaus — Toronto, ON, Canada · horsing around
  • 2024 P2P, InterAccess — Toronto, ON, Canada · MOVES
  • 2024 In Bloom Gala, Toronto Arts Foundation — Toronto, ON, Canada · Fly On The Wall
  • 2024 Low Resolution GIF Screening, Postmasters 5.0 & TRANSFER — New York, NY, USA · MOVES
  • 2024 Signals, VIFF — Vancouver, BC, Canada · I'm Tired of Being Hypersurveilled
  • 2024 The Net Gala — New York, NY, USA · I'm Tired of Being Hypersurveilled
  • 2024 Catalyst LA, El Cid — Los Angeles, CA, USA · NFTarot
  • 2024 SXSW XR Experience, The Fairmont Hotel — Austin, TX, USA · I'm Tired of Being Hypersurveilled
  • 2023 Gateway, NFT Now — Miami, FL, USA · I'm Tired of Being Hypersurveilled
  • 2023 The Edge of Surveillance, NeueHouse — Los Angeles, CA, USA · I'm Tired of Being Hypersurveilled
  • 2023 Fiction & Entertainment Showcase, SCI-Arc — Los Angeles, CA, USA · I'm Tired of Being Hypersurveilled
  • 2023 SuperChief Gallery, NFT Korea Festival — Seoul, South Korea · Flow
  • 2022 Zoratopia — Miami, FL, USA · MOVES
  • 2022 Meta Masquerade, 50MM Collective — Los Angeles, CA, USA · MOVES
  • 2022 Loud Cinema, Smartbomb — Oakland, CA, USA · Flower 4 U
  • 2022 Evolution, Umba Daima — Atlanta, GA, USA · Untitled Collaboration
  • 2021 Family Style, Medicine for Nightmares — San Francisco, CA, USA · Untitled Paintings
  • 2021 Meta Masquerade, 50MM Collective — Los Angeles, CA, USA · MOVES
  • 2020 Bandcamp Live, Gray Area — San Francisco, CA, USA · Pastures
  • 2019 Artist Showcase, Gray Area — San Francisco, CA, USA · MOVES

Fellowships, residencies & awards

  • 2026 Makerspace Residency, Charles Street Video — Toronto, ON, Canada (Forthcoming)
  • 2026 Blue Creator Grant, The Centre for Ocean Literacy Collaboration — Canada
  • 2026 Caserne 26 with MAPP — Montreal, QC, Canada
  • 2025 Projection Mapping Award, MULTIFest — Toronto, ON, Canada
  • 2025 InterAccess — Toronto, Canada
  • 2024 Art & Code, NEW INC x Rhizome — New York, NY, USA
  • 2024 Base Builders Hackathon Creative Awardee, Base x FWB — Idyllwild, CA, USA
  • 2024 Art Farm Nebraska — Marquette, NE, USA
  • 2022 Avaissance Residency, Art on Avax — Digital
  • 2021 FWB Fellowship, FWB — Digital

Professional

  • 2019 – Present Motion Graphics & Projection Design — Freelance, Remote
  • 2021 – 2023 Live Visuals Director, Zoratopia — Zora, Remote
  • 2019 – 2020 Animation & Creative Coding Instructor — David E. Glover Center, Oakland, CA, USA
  • 2018 – 2019 Director of Creative Operations — Kapwing, San Francisco, CA, USA

Skills

Unreal EngineTouchDesignerAdobe Creative SuiteGenAI toolsPhysical computingProjection mappingReal-time visualsWeb development