Knep is a
media artist who currently works with both science and technology. He is an
artist in residence at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, using his studies
of science to create video installations. Much of his work reacts to changes in
environment, some is interactive- and changes in response to people- other
pieces of his work just change as time passes by. He likes to explore physical
and spiritual relationships and combines art, architecture and science to look
at the themes of change, healing, struggle and acceptance. Knep’s work has
featured in several solo exhibitions internationally.
“Frog Triplets” and “Frog Time”
Knep created
a video of silhouetted frogs called, “Frog Triplets”, the video shows three
frogs lined up as if for a race, a horizontal line streaks over the picture and
blurs it as the frogs begin to “sprout tails”. Every so often one of the frogs
reverts back into a limbless tadpole after jumping forward and then changes
back into a frog as it falls.“Frog Time”, another of his studies for part of a
larger project, similar to “Frog Triplets” shows a single frog struggling
against a line wiping across the screen and changes from frog to tadpole and
back again.
These
installations offer a conveyed metaphor to describe the ongoing process of
aging – and our constant struggle for youthfulness. It is a possibility that
these project could be made into interactive pieces.
“Drift”
In 2004 Knep
used a computer, video projector and customised software to allow him to create
“Drift” a non-repeated video installation, which was 7’6” x 1’6”. He focused on
the way “organic shapes” and cells move and studied the way that they change
across a projection of five separate panels. The shapes move and as they reach
the end of one panel they move onto the next, but in a different form. The
projection is very slow and you almost enter a trance like state as you watch
it.
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