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eightfilters interview

barry — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:37:22 +0000

Dermot and I were interviewed recently for a documentary about live video performance by Grayson Cooke.

Jurassic Lounge Mark 2

barry — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 08:30:55 +0000

Jurassic Lounge is returning this August, and we have some exciting news for this season: eightfilters will be curating several spaces!

We’re looking for installation artists, projectionistas, video mixers, laptop musicians and filmmakers who are interested in performing.

We have 2 rooms for projection and musical works, with screens, projectors and PA systems, and we have a massive widescreen projection space for pre-prepared works and short films.

Email us at eightfilters@gmail.com with a brief summary of your work and what you’re interested in doing, and we’ll get back to you asap.

Taste of Honey

barry — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:34:55 +0000

Dermot and I did some visuals for a Taste of Honey at the Hive Bar this weekend.

Some of the stuff I’ve been cutting:

Hive Bar – A Taste of Honey from barry saunders on Vimeo.

Lots of Max Headroom, Akira and old B-grade sci-fi. I’ve been watching lots of cyberpunk movies and reading Grant Morrison comics for a writing project I’ve been working on, and it’s starting to come out in my video work.

I’ve been using AV Mixer but I’m looking at moving to Modul8 – the resolution in AV Mixer just isn’t high enough.

Taking a breather

barry — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:00:26 +0000

Final Jurassic Lounge went really well.

Dermot and I going to take a bit of a break and rejig what we’re doing – looks like we’ll be playing an album launch in a month or so.

Final Jurassic Lounge

barry — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:09:12 +0000

Eightfilters are playing the final Jurassic Lounge tomorrow night at the Australian Museum. We’ll be setting up installations in a couple of different space, and hopefully sourcing a number of projectors for a big installation.

Our compatriots at Punk Monk will be doing some liquid light displays as well, come check out their psychedelic stylings.

ALGAE RHYTHM 0.02: psychochemical from punk monk propaganda on Vimeo.

Jurassic Lounge again

barry — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 01:26:52 +0000

We got a nice write up from circle.square.triangle for our work at Jurassic Lounge.

You’ve been living under a rock if you’ve never heard of a disk-jockey before, sorry Gen Y, a DJ. But during silent disco last Tuesday when stunning random floated across the floor and asked me “Did I like the VJ?”, I wasn’t sure where to take it. We were after all standing next to a Tyrannosaurus Rex, drinking Canadian Clubs and it was only a breath before that a drag queen walked by. Despite the obvious innuendo and the need to take every obscurity of the english language straight to the gutter, beautiful stranger told me all about Video-Jockeying and Eightfilters, the VJ duo down the hall. And what a beautiful discovery indeed!

Video-Jockeying (VJ-ing) is a dynamic artspace. It is the augmentation of images and video files and linking these visuals to respond with and be manipulated by sound.

This week we’re doing another set. Next week we’re going to bring a couple of extra toys and set up some reactive stuff, which should be a lot of fun!

Eightfilters is performing at Jurassic Lounge

barry — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 01:03:55 +0000

I’ve been doing some video mixing and installation art with Dermot McGuire as Eightfilters. We’ll be doing a weekly performance at Jurassic Lounge from the first of February, playing a mix of Victoriana, B-grade sci-fi dinosaurs and Godzilla outtakes. We’ll also be doing some installation work over the 12 weeks.

Come down and have a drink, check out the exhibits and hear some live music!

Still editing

barry — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:42:03 +0000

So the video editing continues apace. The story is still coming together – though the structure kind of makes sense now. I’m trying to convey the clash of frameworks that the COP15 represented – self regulation vs UN, green capitalism vs anti-capitalism, insider dealing vs direct action protest. I keep coming back to an interview with a Burmese activist who wanted to know how we could come up with a fair agreement when his representatives were his oppressors. And I can’t help but think that he’s right, but the alternative is to… do what?

The Arctic Melt

barry — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:39:54 +0000

My first update from Copenhagen, in which I talk about the arctic melt, show off the Copenhagen Ice Bear by Mark Coreth, and try to remember to not look shifty on camera.

Darwin’s Brave New World

barry — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:50:52 +0000

This looks interesting… and I like the ads.