Brian Knep
Self Employed
Holyoke, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Knep is an artist-engineer who blends computer vision and graphics with fine art to create award-winning interactive and public installations. With an MSc and BSc from Brown in computer science and mathematics, he began his career at Industrial Light & Magic, contributing tools that earned two technical Academy Awards and supported films like Jurassic Park. He co-founded Nearlife to pioneer museum-scale interactive experiences and later became the first artist-in-residence at Harvard Medical School, producing work that ranges from microscopic sculptures to large site-specific commissions. His projects have been shown at major museums and have won honors from Ars Electronica and Americans for the Arts, while his practice continues to bridge research publications and hands-on craft training in ceramics and glass blowing. Based in Holyoke/Boston, he operates as a self-employed media artist and engineer represented by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, combining deep technical systems design with a studio artist’s sensibility.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at Brown UniversityCeramics, Ceramics at Radcliffe
Github Skills (28)
debugging10
job-system10
modifiers10
animation9
mesh9
hardware9
sdk9
unity3d9
computer-vision8
python8
nuget-package8
realsense8
camera-api8
homebrew7
scientific-computing6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JeremyRubin/Junkyard-Jumbotron
Jan 2011 - Jun 2011
Contributions:77 commits in 5 months
bleppie/Blep.TextureOps
Nov 2023 - Jul 2026
Contributions:21 pushes, 5 comments, 3 issues in 2 years 7 months
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