Brian Knep & 2 Questions

Learning about Brian Knep was extremely fascinating. Knep is a New Media artist that studies the effects of changing, healing, and other types of growth and evolution in his pieces. By using many different types of new technologies and computers, it is possible for him to make works that are interactive with the viewers.

In his 2003 video installation titled Healing, the viewer is able to physically walk on and across the piece, causing tears and breaks that slowly heal themselves back together. One aspect of Knep's work that I find interesting is that he creates each piece so that it will never repeat itself or stays the same experience for a viewer. To make this piece work requires a size variable computer, a ideo projector, a video camera, and custom software. Healing discovers aspects of integration and interaction.

I was also very interested in his piece about frog evolution. In his piece titled Frog Triplets, different stages of a tadpole growing into a frog are depicted against a wall in a non-repeating video. The images are in motion, and moving at various speeds with each other. This 2007 piece shows the incredible journey that frogs go through in their lifetimes, and I think it is depicted interestingly and effectively through his projection.

Questions:
What triggered you to create your piece Healing?
How important to you is it to have your work be interactive with your viewers?