Mike Rijnierse + Rob Bothof – Cube It wouldn’t be TodaysArt without Mike Rijnierse. Known for his large scale site specific installations, in which the audience is incorporated into the context of the work, Rijnierse is an interdisciplinary artist whose works have been an integral part of the TodaysArt evolution. From last year’s bungy jumping…
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Cube was presented at KIKK Festival in Namur, Belgium, from November 3rd to 5th, 2016. KIKK offers an international program of art, design, technology and creativity. This year KIKK invited FIBER to present a selection of artists who are connected to the theme of ‘Interference’. Read more about Cube. The installation Cube operates on the…
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Klok For the 11th edition of TodaysArt, Mike Rijnierse has developed a site specific work for The Pier in Scheveningen. During the festival, a 100 kg church bell was thrown from the bungee jump, situated on the tower at the pier, where the festival took place. The sixty meters deep fall of the bell resulted…
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Gem of Lives, a collaboration with Satoru Sugihara Gem of Lives is an artwork crystallizing the historical context of Toad Mountain in Taipei, Taiwan and pursuit of emergence in agent-based computational design and rule-based behavioral art performance. The workshop took place at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei (TW) DEZACT Space Media…
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September 2nd 2015 the sounds of sirens filled the city of The Hague. Tracking the source of those sounds I found myself at the Spuiplein, the heart of the city, where ambulance workers were gathered to demonstrate for their working conditions. The Spuiplein condenses the social, political, and cultural life of the administrative capital of…
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Cube traveled to Cheongju, Korea, in July 2016. The exchange project between Quartair and Schema Art Museum, New Dream, New Future, involved sixteen artists traveling across the world: eight departing from Korea to the Netherlands, in June, and eight artists, from the Netherlands going to Korea in July, 2016. The show at the Schema Art…
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Cube & Murw live set at Grasnapolsky 06 Feb 2016 Splendor, Electronic Extravaganza 11 Feb. 2016 Cube & Murw at Grasnapolsky Cube & Murwat Grasnapolsky Cube & Murwat Splendor Cube & Murwat Splendor
Er zullen zo’n tien lichtkunstwerken en installaties te zien zijn rond het thema ‘Hallucinaties’. We zien zinsbegoochelingen, waanbeelden, maar ook boze dromen. Installaties met caleidoscopische beelden en lichtflitsen door Mike Rijnierse en Panagiotis Tomaras, waanbeelden door Ruby Horstman, zinsbegoochelingen door Hans Tutert en rondzwevende geesten uit een boze droom door Ralf Westerhof. Een zinnenprikkelend evenement!…
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Cube, shown during Lichtbaden, exhibition at CBK, Amsterdam, from November 7th 2015 to January 9th 2016. Organized by Polderlicht. Gedurende twee maanden wordt de enorme, grotendeels witte ruimte van CBK Amsterdam aan de Oranje-Vrijstaatkade in een ander licht gezet door zeven monumentale lichtkunstwerken van evenzovele Nederlandse kunstenaars(-duo’s). Deze lichtinstallaties en sculpturen zijn gemaakt in de meest…
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‘Zero is silence. Zero is the beginning. Zero is round. Zero spins. Zero is the moon. The sun is Zero. Zero is white. The desert Zero. The sky above Zero. The night – . Zero flows. The eye Zero. Navel. Mouth. Kiss. The milk is round. The flower Zero the bird. Silently. Floating. I eat…
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I am very glad to announce my interview with Régine Debatty, from we-make-money-not-art.com, published on September 8, 2015. Régine Debatty is a blogger, curator and critic. Régine writes about the intersection between art, science and social issues on her blog we-make-money-not-art.com. She also contributes to several European design and art magazines and lectures internationally about the…
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A project by Mike Rijnierse and Rob Bothof The light-sculpture Cube draws from the principle of multiplication of reflections of kaleidoscopes and expands it to an architectonic realm. By positioning six mirrors at perpendicular angle and with a thin gap between the edges, the work creates an infinite grid-space. Contrary to the classical kaleidoscope, where light…
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