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About
Jeroen Alexander Meijer is an interdisciplinary 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 realms intimately influence our outer worlds.
Jeroen has exhibited his installations at several noteworthy events including Amsterdam Light Festival, Rewire, Uncloud, Conflux, The New Current and Highlights Festival. For his work OUROBOROS he has won the generous iii-residency award.
His thesis The Sibilant Light of Attention was highly praised for its innovative design and groundbreaking exploration of the nature of attention. Currently Jeroen is working on evolving this academic exploration into a book delving deep into both the science and spirituality of the eye of consciousness.
︎︎︎Thesis
Curriculum Vitae
Education Royal Academy of Art BA, Interactive Media Design, 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
Thesis
OUROBOROS; The Light of Attention, Understanding the Nature of Attention, 22 Feb 22
Exhibitions / Shows
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 en 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 April 2023
The Grey Space in the Middle (NL), RA, 9 Ma 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 Lecturer w/ Leonardo Scarin, 8-12 Jan 2024
Talks
Emergence @ Sexyland (NL), Art & Technology, Panel Talk, 21 Nov 2024