PROVIDENCE, RI.- —The RISD Museum presents Brian Knep: Exempla in the Anne, Michael and Amelia Spalter New Media Gallery on view through March 6, 2011. Knep (American, b. 1968) creates animated, interactive projections to explore themes of the interconnected and impermanent nature of our world in a lively, light-hearted way. Organized by Judith Tannenbaum, Richard Brown Baker Curator of Contemporary Art, the show features Knep’s Exempla series which include the installations Escape (2006), Expand (2008), Embark (2009), and Excel (2009). Brian Knep’s “exempla” are cartoonish figures based on a three-year-old child’s discarded drawing, featuring oversize faces and flimsy limbs. The artist describes them as “caricatures of the endlessly cycling everyman.” Projected onto the wall, the creatures wander aimlessly, their movement controlled by gallery visitors as they push a button or depre