About

Rudi Knoops is a media artist. His interest lies in creating new experiences  by blending technology, interaction, and content into new media forms that audiences can engage with.

This central focus found its own translation in his PhD in media arts, that he  obtained February 2017 at KU Leuven / LUCA School of Arts and the University of Antwerp / Research Centre for Visual Poetics, both in Belgium.  In his practice-based PhD research he focussed on the appropriation of cylindrical anamorphosis. Using a media archaeology inspired methodology of short-circuiting past and present, he gauged the affordances of this 17^th century media technology and its significance for how we engage with the techno aesthetics of contemporary society. The resulting series of media installations—DIORAMATIZED #02, MULTIPLE voice/vision, Mirror Mirror, Speculum Musurgica —forms the practical part of his PhD.

Central to his work is the construction of new and imaginary media forms that may provide new insights into how we engage with media, and how media define us as human beings.