Artist Website for Beginners

Learn how to turn the web into a creative space. In this beginner-friendly Digital Lab workshop, participants will explore net art and build a simple website they can personalize and share. No prior coding experience is required.

This hands-on workshop introduces participants to net art through accessible creative coding tools and web-based publishing platforms. Rather than focusing on technical mastery, the class emphasizes experimentation, visual storytelling, and personal expression online.

Participants will learn how artists have used the internet as a creative medium, then build a simple one-page website they can personalize and publish. By the end of the workshop, each participant will leave with a shareable web-based artwork or personal site that can continue evolving after class.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand what net art is and how artists have used the web as a creative medium.
• Learn the basics of editing HTML/CSS or template-based code in an approachable way.
• Customize a webpage using text, images, color, layout, and links.
• Publish or export a website project that can be shared with friends, family, or collaborators.
• Gain confidence using creative digital tools without needing prior programming experience.

About the instructors:

Fabiola Larios is an interdisciplinary artist, SEO consultant, and cultural technologist whose work bridges the gap between online visibility and creative impact. With a background in visual arts and over a decade of experience in digital media, she has collaborated with artists, institutions, and collectives across Latin America and the U.S. to amplify their presence through data-informed storytelling and accessible digital practices. Her workshops on media literacy, cybersecurity, and search engine optimization for artists have fostered critical digital engagement within creative communities. She has worked with organizations and schools in Miami such as Locust Projects, CodeArt, University of Miami, Florida International University and Bakehouse Art Complex where she has maintained a studio residency since 2023. A frequent speaker on algorithmic bias, online censorship, and obsolescence programming, Larios explores the politics of visibility and digital resistance. She is currently an artist-in-residence at Bakehouse Art Complex in Miami. At Oolite Arts, she is the Director of Digital Lab and brings her deep knowledge of search ecosystems, and a strong commitment to empowering artists in the digital age.

Moises Sanabria is a Venezuelan-born technologist and interdisciplinary artist based in Miami. With over a decade of experience in full-stack development and digital production, he previously helped triple the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami’s YouTube audience by launching its first livestream series in 2020. He has developed digital experiences for organizations like Google XR and The Shed. He has led workshops both in-person and online on machine learning, creative coding, and vibe coding. Sanabria is co-founder of the AI media platform AI24 Live and was the founding engineer at Lore Machine AI. His artistic work exploring machine philosophy and speculative internet futures has been shown at Transmediale, ICA Miami, and Centro de Cultura Digital (CDMX). Sanabria was a Fellow of Recalibrated Institute at ArtCenter South Florida in 2017 and was a recipient of the Miami Grant Program 2024. He is currently an artist-in-residence at Bakehouse Art Complex and serves as Technical Director of Oolite Arts’ new Digital Lab, where he develops programs that give resident artists and community learners hands-on access to AI, data-driven storytelling tools, and technical infrastructure across the organization.