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About


Niki Scheijen (1996, Maastricht) is a Dutch interactive media designer, creative coder and VJ based in Rotterdam and studying at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, Netherlands.

Growing up aspiring to be a computer hacker left her with a drive to unravel and understand the systems and technologies that shape our everyday lives. Online activism, data, microwaves, feminism and VHS tapes are some subjects that she has transformed into interactive artworks.
Using a multidisciplinary approach Niki’s skills are very diverse, including electronics, 3d, web development and touchdesigner. She is mostly inspired by internet culture, her dog and nature.

In her experimental VJ sets and livecoding performances Niki loves to use old analog video mixers, titlemakers, DIY electronics and circuit bending. Together with more contemporary techniques and livecoding she create immersive live visuals that embrace the glitches, noise, and imperfections of obsolete technologies.

Niki has performed VJ and livecoding sets in various venues in The Netherlands and Germany. She teaches workshops about livecoding and is currently artist in residence at Creative Coding Utrecht. She has also been part of the Digital Care program by LIMA Media Art.

Feel free to get in touch! 
︎ mail@nikischeijen.nl
︎ @n1k1l1a


Group Exhibitions


2023

What Watt Exhibition Installation + coding blocks
Quartair, Den Haag 

Design Passage
Bauhaus Laugh House
Passage, Den Haag

ReCode: Remko Scha Recode interactive installation
Vogelfrei Utrecht

Hugging Architecture Anale installation
Amare, The Hague

Erasmus Data Summit
We are Technology
Erasmus University Rotterdam

Earlier

Red Floor Gallery #activism
Alexandrium Shopping Centre Rotterdam

IFFR 100, 50 future posters
Poster design
International Film Festival Rotterdam   

Vonk
Technosexism
Plan B, Eindhoven

Performances & Shows


2023

The Overkill Festival
Livecode visuals set with Cookie Collective
Enschede

Traumburg Festival
VJ + LED bar lights set
Dornburg, DE

CLUB RGB 
Analog VJ set
POING club Rotterdam

Vibrant Clubnight
Analog VJ set
De Sering, Amsterdam

6 jahre LOCH
Analog VJ set b2b with Luzie
Loch, Wuppertal DE

Live Coding Sessions
Livecoding visuals
Doka, Volkshotel Amsterdam

2022

3345 livestream
3345 record store, The Hague

DEPT ADNIGHT
Livecoding visuals
DEPT office Amsterdam

Live Coding Sessions
Livecoding visuals
Doka, Volkshotel Amsterdam

10 years of AlgoRave
Pieter Baan Centrum
Livecoding visuals


Workshops & Talks


2023

Creative Pedagogies & Generative Tools
panel talk presenting wooden coding blocks  Iterations Creative Coding Symposium

Hydra livecoding workshop Night of the Nerds on Tour
Helmond

Hydra livecoding workshop
UITfeest Utrecht

Makers talk
Makers Meet & Eat
Centraal Museum Utrecht

Hydra livecoding workshop
Night of the Nerds

Livecoding Playground session
Creative Coding Utrecht office

Residencies & Projects


2023

Artist in Residence
Creative Coding Utrecht Developing educational material about livecoding

Li-Ma Digital Care programme
Recoding Remko Scha

Studies


2022-now
Interactive Media Design
 Royal Academy of Art
The Hague, NL

2020-2022
Transformation Design
Willem de Kooning Academy
Rotterdam, NL

2016-2020
Crossmedia Design
Sint Lucas
Eindhoven, NL

2013-2015
Information Technology
Arcus College
Heerlen, NL

Internships


2020
Czentrifuga 
Artist collective & Screen printing workshop
Berlin, Germany

Unter Druck
Houseless people dayshelter
Berlin, Germany

2019
MAD Emergent Art Center
Graphic Designer
Eindhoven, NL

2015
Stella Maris College
IT helpdesk
Meerssen, NL

Jobs (selected)


Now
Freelancer 
Niki Multimedia Art & Design
Rotterdam, NL

2022
Front End Developer
Freelance/Trainee
Coordinature
Rotterdam, NL

2021
Manifestations Exhibition
Organising, Floormanager & Graphic Designer
Dutch Design Week Eindhoven