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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



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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

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Upsetting Settings

Upsetting Settings presents graduation projects initiated by Alexander Roidl, Alice Strete, Angeliki Diakrousi, Joca van der Horst, Natasha Berting, and Zalán Szakács. The concept of this exhibition arises from the idea of the default setting, a situation in which a specific mode of interaction is selected automatically, pre-configured to work out of the box without the need to tinker with its underlying apparatus. Every system comes with default settings predefined by its creators, and most of the time, these settings remain unchanged by us, the users of such systems. These defaults do not represent our needs but are possibly the materialisation of biases from the system's makers, from corporate or political interests, from a society at large. The projects engage with the concept of default modes and propose interventions in their core structure/source/root so as to start thinking collectively about better places from which to begin. You are invited to become root users, active listeners, smart speakers, intentional eaters, counter trolls, sensorial spectators!