Lale Rodgarkia-Dara, is a writer and sonic artist. Lale develops a new Electroacoustic Literature, that enables writers to read and perform in a collective (with electronic artists and humans) and as individuals with a distance to their texts. Since 2003 she has held Radio-Workshops and is engaged in community work. She produces and develops art that is somehow always related to spaces and spheres in transition, literature and media-art interplaying with open source technology. Her current interest lies in the conversion and transformation of the digital sphere into the analogue reception of the individual subject to their biological existence or simply curiosity.
 She somehow always invents projects with literature, media art and mostly in transitory spaces or on the radio. With Judith Unterpertinger and Carolie Mayrhofer she forms the trio "Under the given circumstances". She is part of Mz. Baltazar's Laboratory Collective, which runs a feminist art/hacker space in Vienna, Vienna's Radia Collective (co-founder of radia.fm) as well as co-founder of the electronic Teatime (until 2015) and Radio Ironie Orchester of Radio Helsinki (2019). She is currently the strategic managing director of Radio Helsinki 92.6 - Freies Radio Graz, Austria. In this function, together with Betina Aumair from the Wiener Volkshochschulen, she organised the lecture and discussion series "Salonfähig und normal? Talking about Radicalisation" and in September 2021, together with Manfred Kinzer and Daniela Oberndorfer, the international media conference "Salonfähig und normal? Right-wing and Authoritarian Shifts as a Challenge for Journalism and Media Freedom." She has received several grants in the artistic-discipline of music and literature including the literary grant of the Austrian Ministry for Arts and Culture (2009), Radio-Drama Grant of the Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen (2010), Composition Grant of the City of Vienna (2011) and was a jury member for the literary grant of Lower Austria (2013-2016), a jury member of the Media Art Prize of the City of Vienna (2017), Advisory board Literatur&Kritik (since 2023) as well as a guest-lecturer in non-formal education-systems and at universities. Lecturer at the Technical University of Vienna at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space, skuor.tuwien.ac.at (2013-14), Kunstuniversität Graz– Art University Graz (2017/18), Akademie der Bildenden Künste– Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2018/2019, 2021/2022). Talks e.g. Facultad de Artes de la Universídad Nacional de Córdoba (2015), Pädagogische Hochschule Wien (2016-2017), "Sonic Imaginaries"@ ETH Zürich as part of the Parity Talks (March 2022) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaubOa8s6Fe/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link