Have you wanted to build a web project, or have more control over your own artist website? Join artist Matt Nish-Lapidus to learn how to think about and build websites from the ground up. We will learn the foundations of HTML, CSS, and some basic JavaScript in the context of artist websites and projects. Nish-Lapidus will walk through some of his own web-based projects, and we’ll get hands-on with the underlying technologies—demystifying the web and empowering you to express yourself online.
Workshop participants will have the opportunity to practice some techniques and skills in the workshop, please come prepared with a text editor on your computer and open to experimentation! Recommended editors are Atom ([https://atom.io]) or VS Code ([https://code.visualstudio.com]), but any text editor (not a word processor) will work.
Matt Nish-Lapidus is an artist, writer, musician, and designer. He makes software, sounds, and texts probing the myth that computers need to be useful rather than beautiful (and learning that maybe they don’t really need to be beautiful either). Matt’s interests lie in the poetics of computation and its proclivity to create meaningful relations through recombination. Matt holds a Master of Visual Studies in Studio Art from The University of Toronto and has performed and exhibited at ACUD Macht Neu (Berlin), Electric Eclectics Festival (Meaford, Ontario), InterAccess (Toronto), Mayhem (Copenhagen), and many DIY spaces in North America and Europe. You can find Matt online and away-from-keyboard under various aliases and collaborations including emenel, New Tendencies, må, and <blink>.
