Tim Rodenbröker

Tim Rodenbröker probes the tension at the heart of a deceptively simple question: what is software, really? For him, creative coding is the essential tool, a highly charged dialogue between human and machine. Writing code by hand, he argues, is how this small, deliberate act comes to address the larger questions of our time: Where is the line between computer as tool and computer as machine? And what does "technology on a human scale" (a phrase coined by Fritz Schumacher) mean today? Creative Coding then becomes philosophy: a way of asking questions and finding answers through the act of making.

Tim Rodenbröker creates tools, environments and stories around Creative Coding. Based in Barcelona, he works as an creative technologist, designer and educator.

He is the founder of trcc, an online learning platform and cultural hub for Creative Coding.

Together with Martin Lorenz, he runs a design studio called Coding Systems.

Tim has taught at a wide range of international design institutions, including Elisava in Barcelona, the Glasgow School of Art, HEAD Genève and ECAL. He has also worked across disciplines for clients such as The New York Times, IBM, University of Pennsylvania, the Julia Stoschek Foundation, Holo Magazine and Slate + Ash.

The word "downgrade" is his north star.

When Tim Rodenbröker rescued an old computer from death by installing a free operating system, he didn't expect to stumble into a philosophical adventure. But this seemingly trivial repair sparked an explosion of ideas and insights, a personal, poetic research project venturing into the realms of slower, simpler, lower, calmer technology. One that changed his life and his work. Are you ready for the downgrade?