{"id":3302,"date":"2025-05-21T11:55:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T14:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccdhhn.ca\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=3302"},"modified":"2025-06-05T11:16:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:16:39","slug":"the-small-web-making-minimal-websites-and-digital-ephemera-by-hand","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/ccdhhn.ca\/fr\/workshop\/the-small-web-making-minimal-websites-and-digital-ephemera-by-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"The Small Web: Making Minimal Websites and Digital Ephemera by Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Event Language<\/h3>\n\tEnglish<\/div>\n\n\n
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Cat\u00e9gorie d\u2019\u00c9v\u00e8nement:<\/dt>
20+ hour workshop<\/a><\/dd><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Dates: June 9th to June 13th 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of IDARE Summer University 2025<\/a>: \u00ab\u00a0Handmade Digital\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong>
IDARE: INTERACTIVE DIGITAL ARTS, RESEARCH AND EDUCATION<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Small Web: Making Minimal Websites and Digital Ephemera by Hand<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Please note: in-person or virtual attendance is possible for this workshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instructor: Reg Beatty<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u00ab\u00a0small web\u00a0\u00bb is a space where people question how desirable it is to have their online presence pre-formatted and then harvested by a ubiquitous corporate culture. It’s a space that is looking for alternatives to this platformed self-expression, trying to make room for something less rule-bound \u2014 something that’s unconventional, unexpected. And one of the ways the small web imagines this might happen is through a return to \u00ab\u00a0making.\u00a0\u00bb In trying to reset our digital lives the impetus of our own making allows us to refocus on the creative process (and pleasure!) of coding from scratch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This course will take a minimalist approach, showing how a small number of HTML elements and CSS rules can do most of the heavy lifting necessary to make a website. We’ll cover how to coordinate structure, content, and style, including fonts, images, colour, video and audio. And we’ll build our web pages on neocities<\/a> which, as a community, exemplifies the freedom of the small web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The more proprietary, predatory, and puerile a place the web becomes, the more committed I am to using it in poetic and intransigent ways. \u2014 J. R. Carpenter from<\/em> \u00ab\u00a0A Handmade Web<\/a>\u00ab\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reg Beatty is a bookbinder, book artist and designer. He has maintained a studio in Toronto since 1992, lectured at a variety of institutions, and taught bookarts and book design at OCADU, York University and Sheridan College. As project manager and in-house designer at Toronto Metropolitan University\u2019s Centre for Digital Humanities, he helped create the new interface and content management system for <\/em>Yellow Nineties 2.0<\/a>. He received an MA in Communication and Culture at TMU\/York, where his major project investigated the algorithmic book. His work has been exhibited in the United States, Europe, Japan, and across Canada.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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