HTML Color Codes is an online exhibition organized by a woman named Carolyn Kane.  The works address a central question: Are internet artists limited to a “ready-made” color palette?  This question affects numerous artists from those working with film and photography to those working with mass produced, standardized paint sets.  This question comes to our attention mainly due to “theories of perception that argue that color is a not ready-made object found in a paint set or machine, but rather it is an experience that results from a complex process of light interacting with the retina and human nervous system.”  Chris Ashley, Michael Atavar, Michael Demers, dlsan, Jacob Broms Engblom, Elna Frederick, Morgan Rush Jones, Brian Piana, Owen Plotkin, Rafaël Rozendaal, Andrew Venell, and Noah Venezia are all the artists in this exhibition.  Each of these artist did something different in their work, but ultimately they all dealt with HTML and color.  Some of them tried to capture nature in a way that almost made it seem as though they were criticizing the inability to make something we may see that is natural- online.  Elna Frederick did this in her piece called @=landscape.  follow this link #mce_temp_url#

I think these projects are interesting because though sometimes we assume the internet has everything out there, it’s interesting to see what real things cannot be portrayed using the designated colors and programs online.  The ability to see colors differently is interesting too in some of the more standard pieces that reflect that detail of internet and colors.  Many of the pieces are interesting and they definitely critique the use of color in digital art.  These works remind me a great deal of the gallery we had last year here called Color Placement, or something along those lines.  The use of color specifically in any work is always quite intriguing.

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