Speaking of Young Hae-Chang Heavy Industries (YHCHI), Mark and Young-Hae have a new work at the Tate Modern. It is called “The Art of Sleep” and comes with a web-extra, i.e. a YHCHI interview (of sorts) in their signature flash textstyle. From the site:
Employing their usual mix of animated black and white typography, jazzy music and humour, the work explores the international contemporary art market from the artists’ perspective.
I was interested in the blog entry here at “other mouths” where Lance described their work as a text movie. Those of us in the net art scene have always thought of them as net artists who remix expanded cinema, animated poetry, and digital narrative (the non-interactive variety). Mark Tribe writes an essay at the site above to accompany their new net artwork. Entitled “An Ornithology of Net Art,” Tribe writes:
Since 2000, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries have been embraced by the art world in a way that few new media artists have. Indeed, the duo’s work may be appreciated more in the mainstream art world than among new media aficionados. Perhaps this is because their work resembles older art forms, such as concrete poetry and experimental cinema, and because its emotionally expressive voices and dynamic visual qualities communicate across disciplinary boundaries. But Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries’ mainstream success may also have to do with something far more pragmatic. Unlike most net art, their work is user-friendly, even for those who find computers alien and discomfiting: no small, hard-to-read text, no hunting and clicking, no decisions to make, no forms to complete or files to upload.
Writing of the future: just hit the play button and consume at will.
P.S. A YHCHI classic is called Dakota and can be viewed at http://www.yhchang.com
