Algorithmic Interpretations and Pareidolia is part of the postponed duo show: Abstract Realism or Algorithmic Magic – Mike Ottink & Diederick van Kleef. Original opening date: April 4th, 2020.
With this show, we will now open the new gallery season on September 6th!
‘At some point round 2012 I found myself drawing graphic scores. Initially, they came as scores for audio-visual performances and turned into interesting visuals.
The vulnerability and disorder of paper piles directed me to work in pre-bound books. A friend gave me a big size Moleskine 25x35 which turned out to be a great format to work with.
After three completed editions I started to dislike the closed nature of a book. I started to experiment with ideas with a more open eccentric appearance. Hence emerged a vitrine-bound wall mounted book 24 pages changeable at will. Over time it plays its own stop motion sequence.
The first edition of two unique books came out in 2015. Titles are ‘PCP-book 01’ and ‘PCP-book 001’
A second edition of two unique books came out in 2020 titled; ‘Algorithmic Interpretation and Pareidolia and Manual Refresh Rate’.
Mike Ottink, May 2020
'It is entirely possible that behind the perception 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 own visual language in which transitions occur from one sensory discipline to another.
His current paintings have 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 the ideas of David Bohm 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 own drawing and painting tools. Through collaborations such as Amsterdam’s VHSUHF he also creates musical instruments and techniques in the context of audio-visual performance.
In an effort to evoke, experience, and express the invisible, as well as the inaudible, his works stand as the intuitive science: the alchemy of noise and the desire to find something universal and tangible within.