Ariel Baron Robins is an artist, educator, and curator with more than a decade of teaching experience in digital art, video, and animation. She began teaching digital art at Florida Atlantic University in 2011 and has taught at Miami Dade College, Broward College, Florida International University, Hillsborough Community College, and the University of South Florida. Her courses examine animation within contemporary fine art and its development in the post internet era. Her pedagogy emphasizes the relationship between technology and fine art through self directed learning, peer teaching, and critique based practice. She integrates emerging tools including generative AI, AR, and metaverse platforms, guiding students to explore new visual languages while critically examining how these technologies shape artistic production. Baron Robins holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of South Florida and a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Mississippi. She is a Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor at Florida International University, Curator in Residence at Lynn University NFT Art Museum and on the board of trustees at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami.
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Her interdisciplinary practice centers on digital media and drawing, with a long term focus on evolving video drawings that began in 2008. Her work explores repetition, feedback loops, world building, and the artistic process through durational and site specific projects. She is also the founder of Loop Art Critique, a large artwork which functions as an international critique community connecting artists across digital and physical spaces. Her work has received support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in 2026. She has a long exhibition record with a recent solo exhibition, Cycles, at MIFA Miami in 2024.
