Hi Joel,

I agree - it is a frustrating topic.

My own interpretation would of come from a contextual perspective, 
measuring against other abstract art, from the past.

Susan has kept it tight, explored via a process of sticking to what is 
in front of her eyes, what is observed on the web page itself.

There are formal approaches, linking this current work to more 
traditional visual, rules of 'hard-edged' abstract art, but the code 
within the page itself adds a paradigm making it separate, defining its 
own presence away from body/reference and measurement such as 
'physicality, scale and viscosity'. It's means of production defines its 
function, as well its visual presence on the Web page.

When considering differences of digital approaches in contrast to say 
various printing methods and processes of abstract art, use of D.I'Y 
software like in the Digital Pioneers show at the V & A. I see more 
similarities here, rather than say Elsworth Kelly etc...

I think this may be due the element of a close, craft/skill approach, 
which was usually swept aside by the Clement Greenberg contingency, as 
either minor or provincial; prefering the spectical of masculinist and 
modernist abstraction, which of course had its own essence and beauty. 
The other difference between this work and say American abstraction is 
how the works at Digital Pioneers and HTML color's is head-scale, in 
contrast to physical human/body scale.

wishing you well.

marc


 > Hi Marc.
 >  
 > What a frustrating topic HTML color is! However, paintings fade and 
crack, and are programmed differently, if only slightly, by each optic 
nerve. And many sculptures are at the mercy of distance and display. 
Visual Art may begin in the eyes of the artist; but it is justified, or 
not, by the eyes of each beholder.  
 >  
 > -Joel
 >  
 >  
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 > Subject: [WDL] HTML Color Codes.
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 > > Sorry for any cross posting...
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 > > HTML Color Codes.
 > >
 > > Reviewed by Susan Ballard.
 > > http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=383
 > >
 > > Curated by Carolyn Kane for Rhizome.org September, 2009.
 > > The HTML Color Codes exhibition features a selection of internet based
 > > artwork that address the topic of digital color. The central question
 > > that the exhibition poses is whether or not artists working with the
 > > internet are in fact limited to a "ready-made" color palette, a premise
 > > that many artists working with film, photography, and mass produced,
 > > standardized paint sets have assumed. The rationale for this question
 > > stems from 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 
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