Meet the VJs - Catweasel
July 2nd, 2009 by sparkyCatweasel
Whats your name?
Chris or cat, or Catweasel.
What do you do?
Perform Live visuals, make interactive software and artworks, develop multi-touch software and video tracking applications. That pretty much sums it up…
Biography
I’ve been making live visuals since 1992, its the only ‘proper’ job I’ve ever done, and I’m still not sure it quite counts as a proper job!
Black Star from cat weasel on Vimeo.
What inspired you to perform as a visual artist?
Seeing Mark Boyles book Journey to the Surface of the Earth, which documents some of his early projection/performance art pieces, that and being into the Velvet Underground and Syd Barret, that and playing in bands since I was 13…
What’s been the highlight of your career so far?
Being asked to create 3 interactive, multi-touch games for the Krypton factor, really got my inner geek going!
What have you been up to recently?
In the past year I’ve made visuals for a Stevie Wonder tour, played in Hong Kong with the Modified Toy Orchestra (amongst other lovely places) and programmed the visuals and performed at Supersonic festival in Birmingham, as well as sneaking a few TV shows in there for good measure
Have you been to the Big Chill before?
Yup
What are you looking forward to the most at the Big Chill?
Saturday night with Lamb, Spiritualized and Orbital, and seeing GONG! Going to be a happy Catweasel!
