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I’m Alexander Roidl – designer, artist, and media researcher based in Mainz / Frankfurt am Main. I work on creative websites / unusual media / software art and visual design. Currently, working as a Tandem-Professor at Mainz University of Applied Sciences and NODE. My research investigates the diverse implications of human-computer interaction with a focus on the creative use of software. My practice explores the intersection of programming, design, and software culture. I am regularly teaching workshops on creative coding, web technology and interaction design. I hold an MFA in Experimental Publishing from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and a BA in Media Design from Hof University of Applied Sciences in Germany. From 2019 to 2022 I worked as a lecturer and researcher at the design department of The Hague University of Applied Sciences.

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since 2022 Tandem-professorship Mainz University of Applied Sciences and NODE

2019 – 2022 Lecturer and Researcher at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Communication & Multimedia Design

2017 – 2019 Master, Experimental Publishing, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam

2013 – 2017 Bachelor, Mediadesign, University of Applied Sciences, Hof

2015 – 2016 Internship at Verlag Hermann Schmidt

2013 – 2020 Freelance, Graphic & Interaction Design

Contact

mail@alexroidl.de

+49 151 51946451

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Exhibitions / Workshops / Recidencies

2020 Pre-PhD Haagse Hogeschool

2020 Runway Flash Residency

2019 Upsetting Settings Exhibition, Rotterdam

2018 Best Bachelor-student Mediadesign

2018 Publishing as Practice, Workshop

2017 Soundcheck, Dublin

2017 JuniorLab

2016 Richard Wagner Museum, Bayreuth

2014 – 2017 Designblick, Münchberg



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A Bed, a Chair and a Table

A Bed, a Chair and a Table is a publication about the Poortgebouw, a former squat and vibrant living community located in the South of Rotterdam. In this book, oral histories from inside and outside the Poortgebouw are interlaced with material from various institutional and personal archives. By bringing together these tales of resilience, political struggle, frustration and friendship with historical documents, this book brings forward new perspectives about the Poortgebouw's unique history and its importance in the contemporary city. The starting point of the book was the Autonomous Archive, a local archiving machine built from parts of different computers by the inhabitants of the Poortgebouw and a group of students from XPUB.
This publication is brought to you by Delphine Bedel, Natasha Berting, André Castro, Elisa Chaudet, Angeliki Diakrousi, Max Franklin, Giulia de Giovanelli, Francisco González, Joca van der Horst, Aymeric Mansoux, Michael Murtaugh, Alexander Roidl, Steve Rushton, Alice Strete, Zalán Szakács and the Autonomous Archive. XPUB is a two-year Media Design Master course that prepares students to critically engage with societal issues within the fast changing field of art, design and cultural production. The project was developed in the context of Architecture of Appropriation, a research project at Het Nieuwe Instituut, that examines how squatters have appropriated urban spaces using radical improvisation techniques, and how this has influenced the way we think about the contemporary city.

Book, 140 × 210mm
200 pages
Dec, 2017