Video sculpture of the duo at M+, Hong Kong

Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (장영혜중공업) is a Seoul-based Web art group consisting of Young-Hae Chang and Marc Voge. The group formed in 1999. Young-hae Chang is a Korean artist and translator with a Ph.D. in aesthetics from the Universite de Paris I, while Marc Voge is an American poet who lives in Seoul.[1]

Their work, presented in 20 languages, is characterized by text-based animation composed in Adobe Flash that is highly synchronized to a musical score that is often original and typically jazz.[2][3] In 2000, YHCHI's work was recognized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for its contribution to online art. The group uses "Monaco" as the font for all their work because they liked the way the name sounded.[4] In 2001, the group was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists. Their solo show, "Black on White, Gray Ascending", a seven-channel installation, was part of the inaugural opening of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, in 2007. They are 2012 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Creative Arts Fellows.[5] In 2018-19 their work was part of the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9) at the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia.[6]

According to the artists, their piece, Dakota, "is based on a close reading of Ezra Pound's Cantos I and the first part of II."[7] Their pieces are characterized by speed, references to film, concrete poetry, etc. Their work is sometimes called digital literature or net art, but there is no consensus.

Their work is held in the collections of the Tate Museum,[8] the Centre Pompidou, Paris,[9] Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia [10] and M+ Hong Kong.[11]

References

  1. ^ Tribe, Mark; Jana,Reena (2007). New Media Art. Germany: Taschen. pp. 94–95. ISBN 9783822830413.
  2. ^ David Herman, The Cambridge Companion to Narrative, Cambridge University Press, 2007, p174. ISBN 0-521-85696-5
  3. ^ Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard and Michael J. Toolan, The Writer's Craft, the Culture's Technology, Rodopi, 2005, p18. ISBN 90-420-1936-0
  4. ^ Green, Jo-Anne. "Interview with Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries". turbulence.org/. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  5. ^ "Grantees | Rockefeller Foundation Annual Report | 2012" "Young-hae Chang Seoul, South Korea Dem. Rep. $12,540 in support of a Bellagio Creative Arts Fellowship, to pursue a new, in-depth visual arts project and build connections with a global interdisciplinary community of residents in a three-month stay at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center and to receive post-residency publicity through the creation and dissemination of an artist’s publication."
  6. ^ QAGOMA. "YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES". Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
  7. ^ "Distance, Homelessness, Anonymity, And Insignificance": An Interview With Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, by Thom Swiss, The Iowa Review Web, December 15, 2002.
  8. ^ "Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (Young-Hae Chang, Marc Voge) established 1996". Tate.
  9. ^ "Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries". Centre Pompidou.
  10. ^ "QAGOMA Collection Search". collection.qagoma.qld.gov.au. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
  11. ^ "Why M+ Acquired YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES' Entire Body of Work (Past and Future) - M+ Stories". stories.mplus.org.hk.

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