About Tim

creative coding = unexplored territories

Tim Rodenbröker is a designer, creative technologist and content creator. In 2020 he founded trcc, his online learning platform and content-hub for Creative Coding, on a mission to open and cultivate Creative Coding to people around the globe.

His teaching is rooted in a critical attitude to mythologies of ‘technological progress’ and investigates alternative, positive perspectives on technological simplicity.

For Tim, Code is both a simple and highly versatile tool – not just to design for a wide range of media formats. More importantly, to demystify computer technology.

Since 2018, Tim has taught at a wide range of academic institutions, including Elisava (Barcelona), Glasgow School of Art and ECAL (Geneva).

As a freelance creative technologist, he has worked for a wide range of international clients such as The New York Times, IBM, the University of Pennsylvania, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Holo Magazine and Slate + Ash.

Together with his friend Dr. Martin Lorenz, he runs Coding Systems, a design practice exploring the intersection of Flexible Visual Systems and Code.

Tim is also part of the curatorial team for the Design in Motion Festival (Netherlands) and the International Creative Awards (Scotland).

Recently he founded a small writing group called the Techno Essayists, which is open for new members.

Selected Clients

Netflix Design Studios, Slate+Ash, The New York Times, University of Pennsylvania ⁽¹⁾, Julia Stoschek Foundation ⁽²⁾, ZKM Karlsruhe, CCCB Barcelona ⁽³⁾, Holo Magazine, IBM ⁽⁴⁾, Springer Science + Business Media, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, DEMO Festival, Mozilla, Lenbachhaus

(1) with Coding Systems
(2) with Studio von Monkiewitsch
(3) with TwoPoints.Net
(4) with Swift.co

Printed Publications

• CodeCrafted: generative design in branding (2025). Hong Kong: Viction:ary.
  • Essay 1: From Coded Aesthetics to Techno Literacy
  • Essay 2: An Introduction to Coding Systems
  • Essay 3: What is Creative Coding?
  • Essay 4: Getting started with Creative Coding
  • Essay 5: Principles for Coding Designers

Curational Work

• 2025
  • International Creative Awards
  • Design in Motion Festival
• 2022
  • Design in Motion Festival

Teaching

• 2025
  • FH Salzburg, together with Martin Lorenz as Coding Systems
• 2023 – 2024
  • Teaching at Elisava in Barcelona
• Winter 2022/2023
  • University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld
• Summer 2021
  • Rhine-Waal University
  • HAWK Hildesheim
• Winter 2020/2021
  • Rhine-Waal University
  • HAWK Hildesheim
  • University of applied Sciences Dortmund
• Summer 2020
  • Münster School of Design
  • University of applied Sciences Dortmund
  • HAWK Hildesheim
• Summer 2019
  • University of applied Sciences Dortmund
• Winter 2018/2019
  • Rhine-Waal University

Exhibitions

• 2016
  • Contribution to the “Evolving Systems” exhibition at APT Gallery London

Selected talks, panels, workshops, press, exhibitions

• 2025
  • * Techno Essayists
  • Workshop at HEAD Geneve
  • Talk at Blanc Festival, with Coding Systems
  • Online talk at Zamme Projects (Mexico City)
  • It’s Nice That – What happens when design ditches big tech?
  • Curation, workshop and talk with and for Demo Festival
  • Curator for the International Creative Awards
  • Launch of the Podcast Demystify Technology
  • Text work for the book CodeCrafted
• 2024
  • Talk at Akasha Hub: “Back to the Future of the Internet”,
    • together with Kris de Decker and Roel Roscam Abbing
  • Organization of several Creative Coders Barcelona events
  • Panel talk at Let’s Define Design conference, Barcelona
  • Lecture at Glasgow School of Art
• 2023
  • Workshop “Coding Systems” together with Martin Lorenz at PAU Barcelona
  • Contribution to the Data Exhibition at Sheffield Hallam University, together with Lena Weber
  • Talk at Processing Community Day Copenhagen
  • Talk at Leeds Arts University
  • Hosting and Organization of Creative Coders Barcelona
  • Talk at PAU Barcelona
  • Interview with micropolis-mag.com
  • Talk at Mouvo conference, Prague
  • Participation on the AI panel at Mouvo conference in Prague
  • Workshop at Abk Stuttgart
  • Talk at Decimal, New York
  • Talk at California Institute of the Arts
  • Talk and Workshop at Elisava
  • Organization and execution of Creative Coding Barcelona
  • Talk at Bold Scandinavia
  • Talk and Workshop at Glashaus Barcelona
  • Talk at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
  • Interview with flexiblevisualsystems.info
• 2022
  • Interview with Ohne den Hype
  • Curator for DEMO Festival
  • Interview with Lovers Magazine
  • Interview with Masters of Many Podcast
  • #PatreonAbassador for Europe
  • Workshop at International Assembly
  • Exhibiting a piece at Galeria Kollektiva in Kassel
• 2021
  • Organization of the Processing Community Day 2021
  • Talk at Lenbachhaus – Archäologie des Digitalen
  • Talk and workshop at ITERATIONS Creative Coding Symposium
  • Talk at TEDx UniPaderborn
  • Workshop at Captcha Festival
  • Talk at Two Times Elliott
  • Workshop at AdbK Nürnberg
  • Talk at KABK – Royal Academy of Art The Hague
  • Talk at Zuibishe / China
  • Talk at Maastricht Institute of Arts
  • Talk at PCD21 – Processing Community Day Porto
• 2020
  • Talk at TAAALKS Conference
  • Interview with page-online.de
  • Talk at London Creative Coding
  • Workshop at écal Lausanne
  • Talk at Hyper Island
  • Talk at AdbK Nürnberg
  • page-online.de: Processing-Tutorial: Fotos rastern für Einsteiger
  • Interview with Homebound Magazine
  • Interview: Constants and Variables
  • Interview: Tech+Art Podcast
  • Page 2/2020: Rasterization Tutorial
  • Page 4/2019: Processing Posters
• 2019
  • Talk at ADC Digital Experience Conference
  • Workshop at Glasgow School Of Art
  • Talk at Creative Coding Cairo
  • Workshop at Münster School of Design
  • page-online.de: Processing Posters
• 2018
  • Talk at Dutch Design Week
  • Slanted: Programming Posters
• 2017
  • Talk at TEDx UniPaderborn
  • Organization of the “Creative Coding Days” in Nijemerdum, Netherlands
• 2016
  • Organization of the “Creative Coding Days” in Paderborn, Germany
• 2015
  • Organization of the Creative Coding Days in Nijemerdum, Netherlands
  • Founding the Crazy Cool Developers – a community for experimental webdevelopment

Education

• Since 2025
  • Paderborn University
    • Bachelor of Arts
    • Philosophy and Media Science
• 2019 – 2022
  • Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences
    • Master of Arts (graduated)
    • Digital Media and Experiment
    • Thesis
• Summer 2019
  • Center of Music and Film Informatics Detmold
    • Master of Arts (not completed)
    • Audiovisual Arts Computing
• Winter 2010 / 2011
  • IADE Lisbon
    • Erasmus
• 2008 – 2013
  • Münster School of Design
    • Bachelor of Arts (graduated)
    • Communication Design