Brian Knep Cont.

Brian Knep's art certainly speaks clearly to an audience. The interactive quality to his work is immediately exposed as viewers participate in uncovering the method of each design. I could assume, just by watching video accounts of his installations, that they represented a metaphor for our society, particularly the erect, emerge, expand, and escape series. The remaniscent childlike drawings combined with explosive graphic language spoke to me as a comical account of our ever repetative actions throughout history. I was surprised to hear that the simple images were chosen out of an esthetic attraction rather than a purposeful intention.
After Knep let our class in on his personal artistic development however, I learned that an artist with a science and technology background can redifine art without being too literal. Knep explained that the most attractive aspect to his healing installations is not the way each piece forces interaction between the viewer and the work or the audience with each other, but instead how it can be independant from both. The complex behavior of his artwork reaches beyond the common technique of communicating with a viewer, to creating it's own voice, history, reactions even when nobody is in the room. I was absolutely inspired by his new media relationship with art, as well as Knep's passion to experiment and learn from technological development.