About
Niki Scheijen (1996, Maastricht) is a Dutch media artist, creative coder and VJ based in Rotterdam. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, Netherlands, where she studied Interactive Media Design.
Driven by a deep curiosity about the systems and technologies that shape our everyday lives, Niki approaches her work with an investigative mindset. Her practice explores themes ranging from human-machine relationships and online activism to data, feminism and obsolete media technologies, transforming these subjects into compelling interactive artworks.
Using a multidisciplinary approach, Niki's skills span electronics, 3D modeling, web development and TouchDesigner. She draws inspiration from internet culture, nature, and the creative potential found in technological imperfection. In her experimental VJ sets and livecoding performances, Niki combines vintage analog video equipment with contemporary digital techniques. This hybrid approach creates immersive live visuals that embrace and elevate the glitches and noise of obsolete technologies into a distinctive aesthetic signature.
Passionate about community building and education, she develops tools and teaches workshops for beginners and kids to make technology more accessible. Together with fellow Rotterdam live coders, she hosts the monthly Rotterdam Live Coders community meetup at V2_. Niki has performed VJ and livecoding sets in The Netherlands, France, Spain and Germany. Her work has also been exhibited in The Netherlands, Germany and Italy. She has been part of the Digital Care program by LIMA Media Art and was formerly artist-in-residence at Creative Coding Utrecht.
Feel free to get in touch!
︎ mail@nikischeijen.nl
︎ @n1k1l1a
Group Exhibitions
2025
Graduation Show
Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
2024
Graphic Days Design Festival
Echoes of the Living Images exhibition
Turin, Italy
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
2025
ICLC 2025
Ballroom Beats reinterpreted performance with Wilbert Vogel
La Nau. Barcelona, Spain
2024
Dutch Modular Fest
VJ set
Utrecht
Grrrnd Zero Algorave
Livecode & analog visuals
Lyon, France
AlgoAlgo VIU festival Livecode performance
ft. Lil Bleep
Sala Taro
Barcelona, Spain
Museumnacht010 Algorave Livecode visuals
Het Nieuwe Instituut
Rotterdam
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
2024
Workshop festival visuals coderen
beginner live coding workshop
Creative Coding Utrecht /
Piece of Code
Livecoding workshop
Night of the Nerds
Eindhoven
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
2024
EuroFabrique Art Camp
Cerveira International Art Biennial
Portugal
2023
Artist in Residence
Creative Coding Utrecht
Developing educational material about livecoding
Li-Ma Digital Care programme
Recoding Remko Scha
Press
Stimuleringsfonds
Creative Coding Utrecht over transparantie en co-creatie
Willem de Kooning Academie
We Are Technology: a project by Transformation Design student Niki Scheijen
Studies
2022-2025
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
2024
RGBdog
Creative studio researching bonding technology
The Hague, NL
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