// Biography
Tim Rodenbröker is a designer, creative technologist, teacher and writer, based in Barcelona. Since more than a decade, he explores, practices and teaches Creative Coding. He is the founder of trcc, an online learning platform and cultural hub for Creative Coding. Around 2024 he founded 128KB, a platform for Creative Coding within Limits.
Together with Martin Lorenz, he runs a design studio called Coding Systems.
Tim has conducted workshops and courses at a wide range of international design institutions, including Elisava in Barcelona, the Glasgow School of Art, HEAD Genève and ECAL. Since 2022 he is part of the curational team of the Design in Motion Festival. His artistic work has been shown in exhibitions in Melbourne, London, Manchester, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Chicago.
As a designer he has worked for a broad range of clients such as The New York Times, IBM, University of Pennsylvania, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Holo Magazine and Slate + Ash. The word “downgrade" is his north star.
// Work
The Tool is the Message
"The Tool is the Message" is a series of five animations that have been generated with a custom collage software called "The Low tech Painting Machine", built with Processing. The LTPM follows the prompt (for humans) of the 128KB framework: "create a GIF with code, not larger than 128KB". With this series, Tim Rodenbröker describes the series as "a demonstration how limits can turn into powerful drivers of creativity and convey a subversive attitude towards mainstream computering".
