'It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware' - Albert Einstein
In his projects, Mike Ottink playfully examines sensory perception and experience. Intuitively he works on his visual language in which transitions occur from one sensory discipline to another.
Initially, his paintings and books evolved out of drawn graphic scores. Autonomous pictures cite 'volatile' installations or performances of sound and moving images. They are an alternative to sound, photo, or video recording, which in his view, corrupt the moment of execution.
These works resonate with David Bohm's ideas on 'Quantum Coherence': 'The fabric of reality is a holistic medium where everything coexists with everything else. The so-called 'Implicate Order".
In tune with ideas of stretching perceptual borders, Mike Ottink designs and builds his drawing and painting tools.
His recent works mirror the view that although information seems volatile and entropic, it does not get lost. It merely shows to be an essential building block in our sense of reality. Yet, filtered from its morality and meaning. He works toward the philosophy that we create islands of meaning in an ever-increasing flood of random data. (And echo James Gleick's insights on science and information history; 'The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood'.)
Through collaborations such as Amsterdam's VHSUHF he also creates musical instruments and techniques in audio-visual performance. To evoke, experience, and express the invisible and the inaudible, his works stand as the intuitive science: the alchemy of noise and the desire to find something universal and tangible within.