About
Hi! My name is Tim Rodenbröker and I’m an independent design educator building “trcc”, an online learning platform and a community for Creative Coding
New technologies are changing our world at a breathtaking pace and constantly confront us with entirely new challenges. Art and design would have the potential to critically reflect on these developments and offer real alternatives and solutions to this seemingly over-powerful and deterministic development. But unfortunately, we fail to agree on what creative work with technologies should actually mean.
Maybe we already have a conclusive, sustainable solution for this problem. Creative Coding provides a mature, and time-tested foundation for learning and teaching at the intersection of art, design and technology. However, the method is interesting far beyond the infinite spectrum of possible applications, since it can be understood as a school of thought, to foster a more reflected, curious and brave attitude on everyday technology. A question I find important here is: Are we in control of it? Or is it controlling us?
With this project I aim to make the subject of Creative Coding accessible to people in the field of graphic design and beyond. My goal is to develop a solid foundation in the form of a curriculum that makes the key principles tangible and comprehensible. In doing so, I treat the subject in a way that conceptual and aesthetic aspects and potencials are in the main focus.
One of my main goals is to create a distraction free, focused digital learning environment as a counter design to the noisy social media platforms and big and greedy players in the digital education market. That’s why there is no advertising on this website. Instead, the project is funded by a vivid Patreon community.
This project lives from the amazing people who work with my courses. The diverse and globally distributed community of learners and teachers has grown steadily over the course of the last years: Since 2020, more than 2500 people have signed up via Patreon and financially supported the project.


Selected talks, panels, workshops, curational work, press and exhibitions
- 2023
- Talk at Mouvo conference, 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
- 2017
- Talk at TEDx UniPaderborn
- Contribution to the “Evolving Systems” exhibition at APT Gallery London
- 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
I have worked with and for
Slate+Ash, nytimes.com, Lenbachhaus (1), Julia Stoschek Collection (2), ZKM Karlsruhe, CCCB Barcelona (3), Holo Magazine, IBM (4), Springer Science + Business Media, Bauhaus Agenten, DEMO Festival, Festival Aural Mexico City, TwoPoints.Net
(1) with Serve and Volley
(2) with Studio von Monkiewitsch
(3) with TwoPoints.Net
(4) with Swift.co
Teaching
- March 2023
- Elisava
- Winter 2022/2023
- University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld
- Summer 2021
- Rhine-Waal University
- HAWK Hildesheim
- Winter 2020/2021
- Rhine-Waal University
- HAWK Hildesheim
- 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
Education
- 2019 – 2022
- Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences
- Master of Arts (graduated)
- Digital Media and Experiment
- Thesis
- Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences
- Summer 2019
- Center of Music and Film Informatics Detmold
- Master of Arts (not completed)
- Audiovisual Arts Computing
- Center of Music and Film Informatics Detmold
- Winter 2010 / 2011
- IADE Lisbon
- Erasmus
- IADE Lisbon
- 2008 – 2013
- Münster School of Design
- Bachelor of Arts (graduated)
- Communication Design
- Münster School of Design