Used it the first time to create an artist book (nachtmusik) although the music tape that accompanied the book was made with a simple cassette recorder. In 1995 I got an internet connection and started to build a first web site and experimented with sound and image (no longer on-line). It felt like coming home, if you look at my background; music, visual arts and a “heavy reader”, this seems natural.

Always have been interested in the so called “gesamtkunstwerk”, like Scriabin. In exhibitions and in the series A Polyphonic Chronicle I tried to find ways to use music forms like the sonata, polyphony or the passacaglia to give structure. Although music forms deal with time, their inner structures like repeating and variation, helped me to think in a different way about visual works and exhibitions. And not to forget John Cage, I think of him as one of my dearest teachers. [never met him though :-( ]

Andrews
Do you see yourself as a net.artist? What does that term mean to you? Do you distinguish it from 'web.artist'?

Knaven
No not specificly, I consider netart as a form that suits my needs for the things I want to tell. Netart is just one of the new forms used in newmedia art. For me it makes no difference working in real or working for the net, it all depends on the subject and the appropriate form. But as a form it's fascinating. In my view it's the new way of creating artists' books, it has relations with that form of art like the way you view it: 1 to 1, intimately. New component is sound. Using the label netartist is a good way to promote the medium. So I don't mind if people call me netartist. (they also call me photographer, violinist, visualartist, soundartist..:-) what's in a name)

Andrews
Do you surf the work of other people much? If so, where do you get your links? What do you look for?

Knaven
Yes I do. I want to follow what's happening in netartland. And I want to share it, that's why I started MICHEL***, my netartguide. Now MICHEL is running quite well, I get a lot of links from visitors. But I also use resources like Rhizome and tips from friends.

Andrews
What media and arts do you see your work in relation to?

Knaven
visual arts like photography, film, installations, assemblage/collage, artist's books.

Andrews
What tools do you use?

Knaven
Macromedia director, photoshop, soundforge,hotdog, digitalcamera, minidiskrecorder, a pair of scissors and glue

Andrews
Do you consider yourself a competant programmer? Is that important to you?

Knaven
I manage now a days to get it programmed the way I want, but I don't consider it as an important skill. On the other hand it forces me to think about the things I want to make in a different way, your idea reduced to if-then statements which is sometimes very refreshing.

Andrews
What should a web.artist know? Apart from themselves and others. I am asking you how you see the role of technical knowledge in web.art. Is it necessary? What is necessary?

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