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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.

Vita

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



Featured

Dogtime graduation portal at the-wrong-degree-show

A bed, a chair and a table book in best dutch books, students selection

IdN v25n5: Publication Design

New tools for new design: PAGE 03 2017

Speichern Unter: Design made in Germany

IN/FORM: PAGE 10 2015

Digitale Welten Workshops

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Poetic Software

Software has taken command of our daily life. It is omnipresent and most of our Western society would come to a halt without it. At the same time software has become so ordinary, that it is often overlooked. Software is taken for granted while it is increasingly entangled in our life and continuously adopts new tasks. This work is a critical and artistic examination of Software and Software Art. How can artistic methods be used to elicit critical reflection of software? How does Software reflect on the surfaces of our daily life? Different kinds of software are part of the exhibition, that show how software expresses itself. A printer, that prints its own publication, a flip-dot matrix, which shows different theses, an iPod which reads its own memory or a boot-loader presenting the exhibition. (And the ones looking for wifi here, may not find internet, but a poem made of many different wifi hotspots)

https://project.xpub.nl/poetic-software/