Current
Mike Rijnierse teaches Inventing of Instruments at Design Art Technology, ArtEZ University of the Arts, in Arnhem (NL), since 2009. Rijnierse developed the course Design of Instruments, an interdisciplinary module that challenges students to critically engage with the notion of interfaces and to embrace speculative and open design processes. Design of Instruments promotes a cross-sensory approach to help students become aware of the layered nature of design experience. The course encourages the development of devices, installations, sculptures, and performances that transcend conventional domains. Through a media-archaeological framework, students build a critical and reflective design practice that reexamines both contemporary and obsolete media.
Past courses and workshops
2022
Datamorphosis, Non Linear Narrative Tech-Week, masters of design in the Royal Academy of Art, workshop given at Quartair, The Hague (NL).
From digital input to material experience,
Fluctuation, expansion, decay, progression. How to comprehend the evolution of a subject matter by manipulating its figures? Today we have access to data collections, public info sets and online repositories – yet rarely can we grasp the vast amount of information available. Can we bridge the digital realm with the physical experience? Rather than visualizing it on a screen, how do we translate information into an experiential and inclusive form – think of other modes of perception, whether audible, tangible, or even olfactory.
2020
Working with Chaos, workshop at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague (NL)
2017
Off-Course, IST course, Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague (NL)
2016
Gem of Lives, workshop within the Space Media Festival, at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei (TW)
2015
Light Modulator, workshop at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague (NL)
2011
Lumokinetics, ArtScience Interfaculty, Royal Academy of Art (KABK) / Royal Conservatoire (KC), The Hague (NL)
Contemporary Art, Crosslab, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam (NL)
A Lost Point of View, ArtScience Interfaculty, Royal Academy of Art (KABK) / Royal Conservatory (KC), The Hague (NL)
2010
Light and Colour, workshop at NIMk, Amsterdam (NL)
2007
Urban Interventions, workshop, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam (NL)
2005
Light and Colour, Interfaculty Image and Sound (ArtScience Interfaculty) Royal Academy of Art (KABK) / Royal Conservatory (KC), The Hague (NL)
2003
Light and Colour, Interfaculty Image and Sound (ArtScience Interfaculty), Royal Academy of Art (KABK) / Royal Conservatory (KC), The Hague (NL)