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Ariel 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 and Curator in Residence at Lynn University. She is also the founder of Loop Art Critique, an international critique community that connects artists through structured feedback and dialogue. Her work has received support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Baron Robins maintains an interdisciplinary artistic practice centered on digital media and drawing. Since 2008 she has developed a body of evolving video drawings that change over time, alongside site specific and durational projects that examine repetition and the artist’s process. Her work explores themes of world building, feedback loops, and the persistence of artistic labor. Recent exhibitions include the solo exhibition Cycles at MIFA Miami in 2024 and earlier solo presentations such as Tabla Rasa in Hudson, New York. Her work is included in collections such as the Lynn University NFT Museum and the MUD Foundation. She has participated in artist residencies at Vermont Studio Center, ArtCenter South Florida, and La Maison Verte.

With more than a decade of teaching experience, beginning with digital art courses at Florida Atlantic University in 2011, Ariel Baron Robins has taught at Miami Dade College, Broward College, Florida International University, Hillsborough Community College, and the University of South Florida. Her teaching spans digital art, video art, and animation, with a focus on animation as a contemporary fine art practice and its development in the post internet era.Her pedagogy positions contemporary art as a reflection of current social, cultural, and technological conditions. Rather than centering instruction on historical academic traditions that originate centuries ago, her courses emphasize artistic frameworks that emerge from the transformations of the twentieth century and onward, beginning with figures such as Marcel Duchamp and extending into contemporary digital practices. Through this lens, students study how artists respond to the present moment and develop work that engages with current artistic discourse.Baron Robins integrates emerging technologies including generative AI, NFTs, augmented reality, and metaverse platforms into the studio environment. She guides students to use these tools both creatively and critically, helping them understand how different visual AI models shape style, form, and authorship. Her courses incorporate methods such as self directed learning, peer teaching, interdisciplinary collaboration, and critique based practice, encouraging students to develop independent thinking while understanding the role of feedback in the artistic process.

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. 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.