The Austrian artist Manuel Knapp was born in 1978. He studied painting and graphic design at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and computer music and electroacoustic media at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. In the year 2001, together with Arnulf Rödler, he founded the experimental noise group (le) Mat. In 2007 Knapp was co-organiser of the concert series Velakgala at the concert house of Vienna and of the V:ELAK association for electroacoustic music in cooperation with Peter Whitehead. In 2006 Knapp recieved a state scholarship for Fine Arts and in 2007 he was awarded with the Diagonale Award for innovative film from the city of Graz. He now lives and works in Vienna.

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