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About

Jeroen Alexander Meijer is a mindscape artist who navigates psychology, philosophy and cognitive science to create interactive experiences that help us become aware of the mysterious properties of our attention.

His fascination begins with his own attention deficit disorder (ADD) clashing with the hyperdistracting world of today. By practicing the ancient technique of Vipasssana meditation he regained awareness over the subtle and immeasurable power of the mind, inspiring the objective of his work to help audiences all over the world get into similar meditative states and bend their attention back on itself. He achieves this by composing multi-sensory installations that focus deeply on perceiving your own perception, with the ultimate goal of creating a profound sense of how our inner worlds intimately influence our outer worlds.

Jeroen has exhibited his installations at several noteworthy events including Amsterdam Light Festival, Rewire, Uncloud, Conflux, and The New Current. For his premiere work on attention OUROBOROS Jeroen has won the generous iii-residency award. His graduationthesis The Sibilant Light of Attention was praised for its innovative bookdesign and exploration of the nature of attention.

Currently Jeroen is developing his artistic practice, working on his new foundation Aandacht voor Aandacht and writing a book about the phenomenon of attention in the digital age.

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Curriculum Vitae

Education

Royal Academy of Art, Interactive Media Design BA, The Hague (NL), 2018-2022
The Bildung Academy, Money, Digitilisation & Rhetorics, Amsterdam (NL), 2017-2018
University of Amsterdam, Philosophy, Amsterdam (NL), 2015-2016
Applied University of Leiden, Applied Psychology, Leiden (NL), 2014-2015

Awards
iii-Residency Award: "for the ambition expressed and for the potential for future development"

Grants
Talent Development Grant, Creative Industries Fund, 2024
Experiment Grant, Creative Industries Fund, 2023
Residency Grant, Instrument Inventors Inititative, 2022

Writings
OUROBOROS; The Light of Attention, Understanding the Nature of Attention, 22 Feb '22

Boards
Stichting Aandacht voor Aandacht, Chairperson,
2024 - Present
Vereniging WD4X, Treasurer,
2025 - Present
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Exhibitions / Shows
OUROBOROS (NL), Nacht van de Ontdekkingen,
20 Sep 2025

Laughing Lamp (NL), Nacht van de Ontdekkingen,
20 Sep 2025

Mind Bridges (NL), Nacht van de Ontdekkingen,
20 Sep 2025

OUROBOROS (NL), Days of Art & Science,
18 Sep 2025

Escher & Bach (NL), CUBE,
19 Jul 2025

Seen by the Sun (NL), iii Obviously Unthinkable,
31 May 2025

Amsterdam Light Festival (NL), MIND BRIDGES,
21 Nov 2024 - 15 Jan 2025

Cinekid Festival (NL), BUITEN JEZELF,
19 Oct - 3 Nov 2024

Conflux (NL), THE PENDULUM ALWAYS SWINGS BACK TO STILLNESS,
19 Sep - 10 Oct 2024

Next Gen Energy Systems (NL), THE DATA FLANEUR,
11 Jun 2024

Fey Arts Festival (FR), OUT-OF-BODY,
2 - 5 May 2024

Highlight Delft (NL), OUROBOROS,
16 - 18 Feb 2024

The New Current (NL), OUT-OF-BODY,
30 Jan - 4 Feb 2024

Escher & Bach (NL), LINE,
20 - 21 Jan 2024

Uncloud (NL), OUROBOROS,
29 Oct - 8 Nov 2023

Escher en Bach (NL), LINE,
16 Sep 2023

Waking Life (PT), THE DATA FLANEUR,
7 - 12 Jun 2023

Rewire (NL), OUROBOROS,
7 - 9 Apr 2023

The Grey Space in the Middle (NL), RA, 9 Mar 2023

Instrument Inventors Initiative; Flipchart (NL), OUROBOROS,
26 Nov 2022

Awakenings (NL), OUROBOROS,
28 - 31 Jul 2022

The Crave (NL), PASSAGE,
21 Jul 2022

Teachings
Royal Academy of Art (NL), Attention as a Material, Guest Teacher w/ Leonardo Scarin,
8 - 12 Jan 2024

Talks
Emergence @ Sexyland (NL), Art & Technology, Panel Talk,
21 Nov 2024