Intro to the Poetic Web

In the present times of continuously scrolling feeds of adverts and fomo, we must remember that the internet can do more. Let's make websites that are artworks; that are useless; that are playful.

We'll explore examples of the old web and more recent works and use them alongside in-workshop discussion to create your own browser based artwork

You will not need to know anything about code going in. This won't be a deep dive into web development. It will be informal and hopefully fun.

You will learn just enough to:

• Give a webpage a structure: headings, paragraphs, images, links (HTML).
• Make it look how you want: colours, fonts, layout, maybe some blinking and wiggling (CSS).
• Make it respond to you: things that change when you click, hover, or move your cursor around (Javascript)

We'll finish the session by presenting what we’ve made to each other!

• Dreaming of a Poetic Web
• There is an internet that is mine & I would like you to live in it with me
• Building a website like it’s 1999… in 2022
• Net Art Anthology
• My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?

• Knows little to nothing about web design/coding.
• Has an artistic practice.
• Likes to experiment and ask questions.
• Likes browser based art/net art/art games.

• Expects a formal learning environment.
• Wants to be a professional web developer.

• Laptop that connects to the internet.
• A web browser of your choice installed.
• A free neocities account (set up before you arrive).

Anoushka Carroll has dabbled in web 1.0 web design since adolescence, and still hasn’t progressed. She most recently took part in Httpoetics at the School For Poetic Computation in January 2026. She thinks websites should be liminal and delightful third spaces to play in. She is by no means an expert and will be googling and asking claude for help.

http://anoushka.rocks

http://instagram.com4n0u5hk4

New Media Art Club is a Leicester-based community interest company that explores and creates art through emerging digital technologies. We operate from LCB Depot's creative business hub with our co-working studio lab, CoLab.

We create digital art through residency bootcamps, exhibitions and workshops, supported by our Tool Library of digital equipment to lend. We organise regular activities like Ableton Users' Group and Troubleshoot Crit Club.

Our goal is to grow a collaborative network that connects Leicester's digital artists, providing workspace access, career advice and exhibition opportunities whilst building a supportive creative community.

http://linktr.ee/newmediaartclub

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