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{{Short description|Seoul-based Web art group}}
[[File:M+ 焦點空間 Focus Gallery 張英海重工業 Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, 2021.jpg|thumb|200px|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, formed in 1999. Chang is a [[Korea]]n artist and translator with a Ph.D. in aesthetics from the [[Universite de Paris I]] and Voge is an American poet who lives in [[Seoul]].<ref>{{cite book|title=New Media Art|last=Tribe|first=Mark|author2=Jana,Reena |year=2007|publisher=Taschen|location=Germany|isbn=9783822830413|pages=94–95}}</ref>
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]].<ref>David Herman, ''The Cambridge Companion to Narrative'', Cambridge University Press, 2007, p174. {{ISBN|0-521-85696-5}}</ref><ref>Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard and Michael J. Toolan, ''The Writer's Craft, the Culture's Technology'', Rodopi, 2005, p18. {{ISBN|90-420-1936-0}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Green|first1=Jo-Anne|title=Interview with Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries|url=http://turbulence.org/blog/2008/10/23/interview-with-young-hae-chang-heavy-industries/?author=4|website=turbulence.org/|access-date=9 April 2015}}</ref> 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.<ref>[http://annualreport2012.rockefellerfoundation.org/financials/grantees "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."</ref> In 2018-19 their work was part of the 9th [[Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art]] (APT9) at the [[QAGOMA]] in [[Brisbane]], Australia.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries|url=https://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/the-9th-asia-pacific-triennial-of-contemporary-art-apt9/artists/young-hae-chang-heavy-industries|access-date=2021-08-02|website=Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art|language=English}}</ref>
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".<ref>[http://thestudio.uiowa.edu/tirw/TIRW_Archive/tirweb/feature/younghae/interview.html "Distance, Homelessness, Anonymity, And Insignificance": An Interview With Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries],
by Thom Swiss, [[The Iowa Review|The Iowa Review Web]], December 15, 2002.</ref> Their pieces are characterized by speed, references to film and [[concrete poetry]]. Their work is sometimes called digital literature or net art, but there is no consensus.  Moreover, their multilingual typography-based creations tackled social and political issues like capitalist corporate culture and the division of the [[Korean peninsula]]. Their works also featured the era of the late 1990s and 2000s as a keen understanding of unique Korean circumstances with a grasp of global artistic conventions and proficiency in cutting-edge media.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Korean art after 1970 |url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/display/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.001.0001/oao-9781884446054-e-7002088832 |access-date=2024-11-23 |website=Grove Art Online |language=en |doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.001.0001/oao-9781884446054-e-7002088832?rskey=nhwgtl&result=1| doi-broken-date=2024-11-26 }}</ref>
Their work is held in the collections of the [[Tate Museum]],<ref name="TATE">{{cite web |title=Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (Young-Hae Chang, Marc Voge) established 1996 |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/young-hae-chang-heavy-industries-15539 |website=Tate}}</ref> the [[Centre Pompidou]], Paris,<ref name="Pompidou">{{cite web |title=Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries |url=https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/ressources/personne/czALXX7 |website=Centre Pompidou |language=en-EN}}</ref> Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia <ref>{{Cite web|title=QAGOMA Collection Search|url=http://collection.qagoma.qld.gov.au/qag/imu.php?request=load&count=20&PublishOnIMuInternet=Y&CreCreatorLocal_tab=Young-Hae%20Chang|access-date=2021-08-02|website=collection.qagoma.qld.gov.au}}</ref> and [[M+]] Hong Kong.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries {{!}} Makers |url=https://www.mplus.org.hk/en/collection/makers/young-hae-chang-heavy-industries/ |access-date=2024-11-23 |website=www.mplus.org.hk |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries |url=https://www.mplus.org.hk/en/exhibitions/young-hae-chang-heavy-industries/ |access-date=2024-11-23 |website=www.mplus.org.hk |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="M+">{{cite web |title=Why M+ Acquired Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries' Entire Body of Work (Past and Future) - M+ Stories |url=https://stories.mplus.org.hk/en/blog/yhchi-acquisition/ |website=stories.mplus.org.hk |language=en}}</ref>  The section in M+ has been curated through a unique arrangement, featuring a comprehensive collection of all works produced by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries over the past two decades. And, this collection is regularly updated with their new creations twice a year. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Why M+ Acquired Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries' Entire Body of Work (Past and Future) |url=https://www.mplus.org.hk/en/magazine/yhchi-acquisition/ |access-date=2024-11-23 |website=www.mplus.org.hk |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Key artworks ==
Oh Yeah! (2021) is a 9 min. 33 sec video installation with flashing text, sardonically rendered in eclectic English and Chinese fonts, flickering across and down the five LED monitors arranged like a crucifix,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Masters |first=H.G. |date=March–April 2022 |title=Young-Hae Chang: Heavy Indstries. |journal=ArtAsiaPacific |issue=127 |pages=60–61}}</ref> while the voices “OH YEAH!” repeatedly as an echo in the installation. The work is collected by M+ Museum and exhibited in 2021-2022 in Focus Gallery, M+.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries {{!}} M+ |url=https://www.mplus.org.hk/en/exhibitions/young-hae-chang-heavy-industries/ |access-date=2024-11-26 |website=www.mplus.org.hk |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Exhibition history ==
''Future Cinema - The Cinematic Imaginary After Film'' exhibition at NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, in 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ICC {{!}} Future Cinemia - The Cinematic Imaginary after Film |url=https://www.ntticc.or.jp/en/exhibitions/2003/future-cinema-the-cinematic-imaginary-after-film/ |access-date=2024-11-23 |website=NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] |language=en}}</ref>
''Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries Black on White, Gray Ascending'' exhibition at the New Museum, New York, in 2007.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=https://archive.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/916 |access-date=2024-11-23 |website=New Museum Digital Archive |language=en}}</ref>
''Heavy Industries Smash the Gang of Four Billion Young Hae-Chang'' exhibition at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne in 2009.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-08-29 |title=Young Hae-Chang |url=https://gertrude.org.au/exhibition/young-hae-chang-heavy-industries-smash-the-gang-of-four-billion/ |access-date=2024-11-23 |website=Gertrude |language=en}}</ref>
''Kimi Kim Jalan Jalan: Takuji Kogo + Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries'' exhibition at The Private Museum, Singapore in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |title='Kimi Kim Jalan Jalan: Takuji Kogo + Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries |url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/185500/kimi-kim-jalan-jalan-takuji-kogo-young-hae-chang-heavy-industries/ |access-date=2024-11-23 |website=www.e-flux.com |language=en}}</ref>
''So You Made It. What Do You Know. Congratulations. And Welcome!'' exhibition at Asian Art Museum of San Francisco in 2017. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries Presents: So You Made It. What Do You Know. Congratulations and Welcome! |url=https://about.asianart.org/press/young-hae-chang-heavy-industries-presents-so-you-made-it-what-do-you-know-congratulations-and-welcome/ |access-date=2024-11-23 |website=About |language=en-US}}</ref>
''Life in Three Easy Video Tutorials'' exhibition at Artsonje Center, Seoul in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries: Life in Three Easy Video Tutorials |url=https://artsonje.org/en/exhibition/young-hae-chang-heavy-industries-life-in-three-easy-video-tutorials/ |access-date=2024-11-23 |website=아트선재센터 |language=en-US}}</ref>
''Towards a Neo-Constructivism'' exhibition at Bank, Shanghai, in 2020. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Towards a Neo-Constructivism {{!}} 25 September - 7 November 2020 |url=https://bankmabsociety.com/exhibitions/33-towards-a-neo-constructivism/ |access-date=2024-11-23 |website=Bank |language=en}}</ref>
''Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries'' exhibition at Tate Modern, England in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tate |title=Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries – Display at Tate Modern |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern/display/media-networks/young-hae-chang-heavy-industries |access-date=2024-11-23 |website=Tate |language=en-GB}}</ref>
''Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries'' exhibition at M+, Hong Kong, in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries |url=https://www.mplus.org.hk/en/exhibitions/young-hae-chang-heavy-industries/ |access-date=2024-11-23 |website=www.mplus.org.hk |language=en-US}}</ref>
''Please Misake Me for Nobody'' exhibition at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berling,  in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) Berlin - Artmap.com |url=https://artmap.com/nbk/exhibition/young-hae-chang-heavy-industries-2022 |access-date=2024-11-23 |website=artmap.com}}</ref>
Pink Hawk Down / Miss DMZ exhibition at Krone Couronne, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland in 2024. <ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-03-02 |title=Felix Stöckle and Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries at Krone Couronne |url=https://artviewer.org/felix-stockle-and-young-hae-chang-heavy-industries-at-krone-couronne/ |access-date=2024-11-23 |website=Art Viewer |language=en-US}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.yhchang.com Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries Presents], (Official Site)
*[http://www.tate.org.uk/netart/artofsleep/ "The Art of Sleep" and "The Art of Silence"] - a piece commissioned by the [[Tate Gallery]], including an interview with Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries.
*[http://www.centrepompidou.fr/Pompidou/Manifs.nsf/0/BAD1F062735DB80BC1257212004A1B14?OpenDocument&sessionM=2.1.3&L=1&view= "Les Amants De Beaubourg / The Lovers of Beaubourg,"] a specially commissioned work for the 30th anniversary of the Centre Pompidou.
*[http://www.brown.edu/Research/dichtung-digital/2005/2/Yoo/index-engl.htm Intercultural medium literature digital: Interview with Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries]
*Pressman, Jessica. "The Strategy of Digital Modernism: Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries' Dakota," Modern Fiction Studies 54(2); 302-26.
*Pressman, Jessica. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Jegq3veJU2wC&pg=PA316 "Pacific Rim Digital Modernism: The Electronic Literature of Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries"], in Mary Ann Gillies, [[Helen Sword]], Steven Yao, "Pacific Rim Modernisms", University of Toronto Press, December 2009, 316-332.
*N. Katherine Hayles, ''Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary'', Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. 19-30, 124-29
*[http://kadist.org/en/people/young-hae-chang-heavy-industries Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries profile] at [[Kadist Art Foundation]]
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[[Category:South Korean artists]]
[[Category:American contemporary artists]]
[[Category:Webby Award winners]]
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