Lale Rodgarkia-Dara works as an author, radio producer and media artist. She is part of Mz. Baltazar’s Laboratory Collective, which runs a feminist art/hacker space in Vienna, the Vienna Radia Collective (co-founder of radia.fm) as well as co-founder of Elektronik Teatime (until 2015), the Radio Ironie Orchestra of Radio Helsinki (2019), plays in the trio Under the given circumstances with JUUN and Caroline Mayrhofer and initiated and co-founded Palais Rössl in 2023. In recent years, she has explored the intersection between art and science in a series of socio-political and artistic projects. Since 2003 she has been holding radio workshops with young people and adults and giving lectures in formal and informal educational institutions and universities. She was an artistic lecturer at the Vienna University of Technology (SKUOR, 2013-2014), lecturer at the IEM – Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics at the KUG in Graz (2017-2018) and at the Institute for Artistic Teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in the field of acoustics (2018-2019, 2022). (2018/2019,2021/2022), University of Applied Arts Vienna (teaching as the collective Mz.*Baltzar’s Laboratory). Until June 2025 she was strategic managing director of Radio Helsinki 92.6 – Freies Radio Graz.
