Thoughts on New Media Artist Brian Knep

After viewing Brian Knep’s website and doing some research on the artist, I found him to be very interesting and like nothing I have ever seen before.  I really liked how he combined technology, science, and interactive art into the majority of his work.  I also enjoyed his incorporation of organic elements within his pieces and found it ironic that he relied on a computer to produce these elements.  I also found his works that made the viewer apart of the piece to be really intriguing.  However, I feel like watching videos of this kind of art almost doesn’t do it justice because these pieces change depending on how the audience interacts with them and they respond to different environments, therefore every interaction with the piece, changes it.  In a lot of Knep’s works, he also incorporates wounds, healing, and scarring.  I am curious to know what turned his attention to such ideas and how/if these ideas will continue to inspire his work in the future.