Artist, instrument inventor, media researcher, teacher, occasional curator investigating perception

Lumokinese at Sonica Festival

Installation + Artist talk at Sonica (2012) ‘Lumokinese’ is een kinetische lichtinstallatie die gekleurde schaduwen in zijn architectonische context mengt. Willem Marijs (1947) en Mike Rijnierse (1974) transformeren met Lumokinese de ruimte tot een animatiemachine. De plaatsing van bewegende objecten ten opzichte van gekleurde lichtbronnen (rood, groen en blauw) levert een dynamisch schaduwspel op. Lumokinese…
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COMPUTING MUSIC XIII, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Köln (DE)

Missa in RGB in collaboration with Jan Trützschler von Falkenstein. Performance on friday 16th of november 2012. GIMIK presents the eighth edition of the Computing Music series with new compositions and audiovisual works for the organ of Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Cologne. As a computer-controlled machine, the organ will perform pieces by Torsten Anders, Clarence Barlow,…
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Landschap der Nederlandse Volksmuziek (deel 2)

Met de voorstelling Landschap der Nederlandse Volksmuziek (deel 2) gaat het Rosa Ensemble terug naar de basis: het kleine, het intieme en het muzikale. De componisten Wilbert Bulsink, Floris van Bergeijk, Jeroen Kimman en beeldmaker Mike Rijnierse laten zich inspireren door het informele en onpretentieuze gegeven van de volksmuziek. Daarbij denkend aan Nederland komt men…
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Room Black

Seeing, feeling, hearing Room Black is a music theatre performance about communication, about the necessity of making contact. Three interpreters are trying to do their job in the best way they can, because the audience shouldn’t miss anything. Diligently they attempt to catch and transfer the atmosphere and the sensation, but translating this isn’t as…
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CYMRGB

Mike Rijnierse is an artist who frequently works with light, developing an extensive series of works under the title CYMRGB. In these works, the artist made a meticulous study of the perception of coloured surfaces that are illuminated by different colours. He gave concrete form to his discoveries relating to the interaction between light, pigment…
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Sonic light performance / installation in collaboration with Jan Trützschler von Falkenstein. An arrangement of tube lights is set up in a dark room according to its architectural conditions. The lights are set up in such a way that they create an ambiguous impression of a two dimensional structure and a three dimensional form. The…
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CYMRGB at Marrakesh Biennale 2012

Mike Rijnierse is an artist who frequently works with light, developing an extensive series of works under the title CYMRGB. In these works, the artist made a meticulous study of the perception of coloured surfaces that are illuminated by different colours. He gave concrete form to his discoveries relating to the interaction between light, pigment…
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Station to Station_TodaysArt 2008

Station to Station, TodaysArt 2008   “I think this is an audaciously brilliant response to the present proliferation of sound artists working with field recordings (brought about largely by cheaper technology of a suitable quality)… It’s probably not a particularly new idea, given the history of musique concrete, noise machines, the ideas of John Cage,…
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THX: INT’L (landing strip) TodaysArt 2007

Turning the city center of The Hague into an international airport. The Grote Markstraat – 600 meters long street in the core of The Hague city was transformed into a landing strip, using 36×6 individual controllable lights and 48x 2000-Watt speakers, creating the experience of airplanes landing in the middle of the city. The landing…
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