Designer, Programmer and Artist. Works on the boundaries between Design, Art and Digital Technology.

He participated multiple times in Google’s Summer of Code working on further development of the Processing programming language and was guest artist and researcher for Motion Bank in Frankfurt. He taught courses including Introduction to Programming, Physical Computing with Arduino and Generative Graphic Design for Printmaking at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and tutored courses including Data-modeling, Database systems, Distributed Systems and Semi-structured Data at the Vienna University of Technology.

Martin Grödl holds a Master’s degree from the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Institute of Fine Arts and Media Art) and a Bachelor’s degree from Vienna University of Technology (Institute for Interactive Media Systems).

His work has been featured in WEAVE magazine, Motion Bank: Starting Points & Aspirations and others.

Github, Instagram, Mail

Clients & References (selection)

We have worked for and with a wide range of clients and studios including cultural institutions, universities, advertising agencies, music labels as well as individual artists and musicians.

• Ars Electronica Festival
• Austrian Institute of Technology
• Design Museum Holon, Israel
• EOOS Design
• European Forum Alpbach
• Expo 2020 Dubai
• Graphic Days Torino
• Festspielhaus St. Pölten
• FH Technikum Wien
• Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Austria
• IDRV – Institute for Design Research Vienna
• LAUFEN
• London Design Biennale 2021
• MAK — Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
• MIT School of Science
• MIT Press/Penguin Random House
• Motion Bank/The Forsythe Company
• NEW DESIGN UNIVERSITY, St. Pölten
• OFFF Vienna
• The Prodigy
• Processing Foundation
• Raiffeisen Bank
• The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
• Sagmeister & Walsh, New York
• St. Pölten 2024
• Triennale di Milano
• TÜV Süd
• University of Applied Arts Vienna
• Upstatement, Boston, USA
• Vienna Biennale 2019, 2021
• VIENNA DESIGN WEEK
• Vienna University of Technology
• Wienerberger AG
• Wix.com Ltd.
• Zurich University of the Arts
• ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe

Talks

2024

• FORWARD Festival, Berlin
• die Graphische, Vienna
• The Future of AI (Forward Session), Vienna

2023

• PDP Conference, Novi Sad
• FORWARD Festival, Vienna
• WIX Boost TLV, Tel Aviv
• Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (online)

2022

• University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Lugano
• Fachhochschule Salzburg
• AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna
• Interactive Media Design Days, St. Gallen

2021

• Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno (online)
• MAK Dialogues, Vienna
• CIVA Festival, Vienna (online)
• Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich

2020

• WEI SRAUM, Designforum Tirol, Innsbruck

2019

• FYI Conference, Vienna
• OFFF, Vienna
• AI Symposium, Vienna
• Graphic Days Torino/CODICI VISIVI, Turin
• 4GAMECHANGERS Festival, Vienna
• FORWARD Festival, Vienna
• EDCH Conference, Munich
• Triennale di Milano, Milano

2018

• Creative Prism, Vienna
• On Data and Design, Vienna
• Digital Design Days, Vienna
• VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, Vienna
• FORWARD Festival, Vienna
• Designforum Vorarlberg, Dornbirn
• TAAALKS – Challenging Boundaries, Munich

2017

• Schnittstelle X, Linz

2016

• Moving Through Words, Zurich

Awards

Lumen Prize Shortlist, 2023
3D/Interactive Award

Ars Electronica Prize Shortlist, 2021
Linz, Austria

Content Vienna, 2020
Culture & Technology Award
Vienna Business Agency

XXII Triennale di Milano
Silver Award (“The Black Bee”)
Milano, Italy

IADA Awards 2018, London
Diamond Winner
Gold Winner

International ARC Awards 2018
3x Bronze, 1x Honors, New York

LACP Worldwide Vision Awards 2018
Gold Winner Worldwide
Top 100 Reports Worldwide
Best Report Cover EMEA Region
Top Report Austria
Top 80 Reports EMEA Region

International ARC Awards 2017
1x Gold, 2x Bronze, New York

Austrian Sustainability Reporting Award 2017
1st Place, Vienna

LACP Worldwide Vision Awards 2016
Gold Winner Worldwide

Type Directors Club 2015
Certificate of Typographic Excellence, New York

Webby Award 2015
Cultural Institutions, New York

Press (selection)

Adobe
AIGA Eye on Design 1, 2
The Art Direction Show
c/o Vienna
DESIGNBOOM 1, 2
Design made in Austria
designweek
Dezeen
Die Presse
e-flux
Fonts In Use
FORMFAKTOR 1, 2
FORWARD Magazine
FUBIZ
The Gap
It’s Nice That
Kronen Zeitung
KUNSTFORUM International
KURIER
LS:N Global
Mousse Magazine
ORF Online 1, 2
ORIGINAL Magazin
PAGE Online 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
PARNASS Kunstmagazin 1, 2, 3
PSFK
PW-Magazine
Der Standard 1, 2
Wiener Zeitung
WIX Playground
WIX Playground — Will AI take over my design job?

Our projects have furthermore been recognized and featured on Dezeen, Gizmodo, The New York Times, FastCo. Design, The Fox Is Black, The Verge, Weave, Kottke, Design Milk, SWISS MISS, Design Taxi, BoingBoing and ELLE among others.

Exhibitions

Klima Biennale Wien
Austria, 2024

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK
Austria, 2023

Stanley Picker Gallery
Kingston University London
United Kingdom, 2022

Expo 2020 Dubai
United Arab Emirates, 2022

AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
Austria, 2022

Tokens for Climate Care
MAK Vienna
Austria, 2021

Ars Electronica Festival, Linz
Austria, 2021

Zönotéka, Berlin
Germany, 2021

Pocko Gallery, London
United Kingdom, 2021

VIENNA ART WEEK
MAK Vienna
Austria, 2021

London Design Biennale
Somerset House
United Kingdom, 2021

Vienna Biennale for Change
MAK Vienna
Austria, 2021

European Forum Alpbach
Technology Symposium
Austria, 2019

Vienna Biennale for Change
MAK Vienna
Austria, 2019

Graphic Days Torino/CODICI VISIVI
Italy, 2019

La Triennale di Milano
Italy, 2019

OFFF Vienna
Austria, 2018

Jewish Museum Identity
Design Museum Holon
Israel, 2018

Aesthetics of Change
MAK Vienna
Austria, 2018

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK
Austria, 2018

Publications (Print)

PAGE 11/2023
Ebner Media Group GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg

Processing Community Catalog
Processing Foundation, ISBN 978-0-9998813-2-3

Voidopolis
MIT Press, ISBN 978-0-262048262

PAGE 8/2023
Ebner Media Group GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg

Discussing Technology: Applying AI
Holzhausen GmbH, Wien

PAGE 6/2022
Ebner Media Group GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg

Let’s talk: Culture & Technology
Wirtschaftsagentur Wien

Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies
Open Humanities Press CIC, ISBN 978-1-78542-094-8

Big Data, Big Design: Why Designers Should Care about Artificial Intelligence
Princeton Architectural Press, ISBN 978-1616899158

Spooky Technology, A reflection on the invisible and otherworldly qualities in everyday technology, ISBN 9780956542151

Augmented Reality Exhibition Book by Generative Hut x Vetro Editions

ORIGINAL Magazin #31, August 2021
ORIGINAL Magazin Verlags GmbH, Bregenz, ISSN 2312-7880

Filming, Researching, Annotating: Research Video Handbook
Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH, Basel, ISBN 9783035623062

PAGE 9/2021
Ebner Media Group GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg

Slanted Magazine #37—AI
Slanted Publishers, ISSN 1867-6510

étapes 253, Design Graphique & Culture Visuelle
ISBN 979-10-92227-45-1

Unknown Quantities Journal #7
Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London

Discussing Technology: Cybersecurity
Holzhausen GmbH, Wien

PAGE 8/2019
Ebner Media Group GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg

Bekannte Unbekannte: Grafikdesign in Österreich
Triest Verlag, ISBN 978-3-03863-003-6

An envelope for arts, sciences, politics and us
SpringerWienNewYork, ISBN 978-3709109892

Type Directors Club Annual 36
Hermann Schmidt Mainz GmbH & Co., ISBN 978-3874398763

WEAVE Magazine
PAGE Verlag, Hamburg

desktop Magazine
Niche Media Pty Ltd, Melbourne

depict Magazine
Glyphic Visual Information Inc, Toronto

Teaching

OFFF Festival
4. June, 2024
Vienna, Austria

New Design University
Since 2023
St. Pölten, Austria

WIX Academy
16. May, 2023
Tel Aviv, Israel

Fachhochschule Salzburg
Guest professorships in visual communication
Winter semester 2022/2023
Salzburg, Austria

University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)
12.–16. Dezember 2022
Lugano, Switzerland

Kulturverein Grammophon
12.–13. November 2021
Wattens, Austria

WEI SRAUM. Designforum Tirol
28.–29. February 2020
Innsbruck, Austria

Graphic Days Torino
11. September 2019
Turin, Italy

New Design University
7.–10. January 2019
St. Pölten, Austria

Zurich University of the Arts
20.–26. October 2018
Zurich, Switzerland

Jobs/Internships

We’re not actively looking to expand our team, but if you’re an excellent coder with profound visual design skills or a visual designer with solid experience in creative coding, we’d love to hear from you.

Please note, we’re a tiny studio and cannot respond to all applications.

On a side note: You can buy a full day working with us in our studio if you think that’s cool.

Process — Studio for Art and Design OG

c/o Funkensprung Coworking
Hütteldorfer Str. 63-65/4
1150 Vienna, Austria

hello@process.studio
+43 681 20 450 780

Managing partner: Martin Grödl, BSc MA
Partner: Barbara Wimmer, BA

Commercial register: FN442327g
Commercial court Vienna

UID/VAT Number: ATU70246539

Further information: Imprint and Privacy policy.