Stop. Collaborate and listen.

Group project by Tim, Crystal, and Melanie


I really like this project done by Tim, Crystal, and Melanie. It is very colorful and fun. It is really interesting how you can see all three animations at once and then you can see all three characters together at the carnival. Each individual animation has its own story and then the final product where the characters meet there are many interesting things going on, such as the ferris wheel spinning and a roller coaster operating. I can see many different influences in their work. One that sticks out is Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries' 'Korea Web Art Festival' site. It relates to this piece in just the simple flashing of the animations. Their piece is also kind of like Mark Amerika's piece, Film Text. In Film Text there is this sense of smooth flowing from one area to another and you have that same smooth flow in Tim, Crystal, and Melanie's group project. The animated-ness of their project is very much like John Cabral's 'Ground Zero.' John Cabral has these fantastic characters that are animated and he zooms in on different parts of this one area and different times. Each minute somethings is changing. It's like you are on a 24hour watch of an environment, slowing watching it change. I really like the characters that each group member chose and how they chose to animate them. It definitely holds my attention and interest.

Sources of works that relate:
1.Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries//Event and Place//Korea Web Art Festival//2001
2. Mark Amerika//Film Text//2001
3.John Cabral//Ground Zero//2001

groupy group

A priest, a rabbi, and a minister all walk into a bar

projects thus far

Self Portrait

Project II

good influence

My Boyfriend Came Back From the War
Olia Lialina, 1996




Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries
Korea Web Art Festival 2001

These two pieces have influenced Project II. I really liked the idea of frames inside of frames that Olia Lialina used in 'My Boyfriend Came Back From the War.' I didn't take it quite as far as she did, but it did influence my project. The website being black and white is also an influence on my project because I like the way things just appear out of the darkness.
Also Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries' 'Korea Web Art Festival' had a great influence on my project. I like the way words flash on the screen and disappear. I used this component in my project in a couple of different places. It looks simple but it works for the project. The Korea Web Art Festival piece is user interactive without being interactive because Young Hae Chang uses words to interact with the user. The words draw them in because the piece is talking to them. I am also incorporating this aspect into my project with a flash piece that is talking specifically to the viewer.

Funk

Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries collaboration with Candy Factory
Korea Web Art Festival, 2001

"It's pretty obvious that the "tone" or "voice" of Internet literature is more distant and difficult to "locate" than traditional writing. Mere book packaging tells a lot about the book and the author; browser packaging is generic. Distance, homelessness, anonymity, and insignificance are all part of the Internet literary voice, and we welcome them." - Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries

This piece by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries in collaboration with Candy Factory is titled Funk. It was done to promote the first ever Korea Web Art Festival in 2001. The viewer is confronted with flashing words and upbeat music. The flashing words [written in both English and Korean] are in conjunction with the music. During the flash presentation, the names of the artists participating in the festival flash across the screen. Other words flash across the screen asking the viewer to get up and dance, telling them they are beautiful and that they are not alone. After the 'Funk' you are taken to the Korea Web Art Festival website for 2001 and you see the words "Alone Together" at the bottom of the screen; these words are also shown many times in "Funk."


"Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries combines text with jazz to creat Flash pieces on its web site, http://www.yhchang.com. It's a simple technique, one that shuns interactivity, graphics, photos, illustrations, banners, colors, and all but the Monaco font, while at the same time appears to cut across the lines separating digital animation, motion graphics, experiemental video, and electronic poetry. To Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, though, it's Web art."

Communication Creates Conflict

Communication Creates Conflict
Heath Bunting
1995

Communication Creates Conflict starts out with a page that contains a poem of sorts about communication. Here is an excerpt:

peace and harmony vs destraction to destruction.
language from - mortality inspired fear,
creates desire for - unification via language.
'it good to talk' say british telecom,
but is futile as peace is expressionless;
attempted expression is conflict.

Within the writing there are pieces of words that are hyper linked to a different page. On each page there is a way to 'communicate.' For instance, there is a page called #leaflet. Through this page you can create a leaflet that people will give out at large stations in Tokyo because there are always people hanging around handing out leaflets in Tokyo. Tokyo seems to be the location of choice in this project. However, on one page you can fill out the form to send the author a postcard, yet another means of communication. Heath Bunting chose to represent Tokyo through its many means of communication. Such as leaflets, emails, letters, etc. You use Bunting's website to communicate with Tokyo. "Through the use of recycled software, this works allows the participant to influence a broad range of communications media from the Internet, including the fax, postal mail, e-mail, and the Street. "

A Visitor's Guide to London

A Visitor's Guide to London
Heath Bunting, 1995

A Visitor's Guide to London was created by Heath Bunting in 1995. The author chose to represent places around London through pictures. The viewer is able to choose between directions such as north, south, east, and west. Also, the viewer could choose a place from a map. The website engages the user, who is ultimately in control of where they end up. The pictures themselves are in black and white and kind of grainy. So the viewer may not always be certain of their location.

"In Visitors' Guide to London, initially a HyperCard project and then put on the Net, he offers a way of looking at London quite different from the usual tourist clichés. Bunting employs low-resolution black-and-white images with no gray-scales, along with a very simple navigational system. The visitor moves around the city by clicking on icons for north, northeast, east, etc., on a map of the Underground. From the map he or she can access any stations, but only to find banal photographs which Bunting has taken there at the surface. He thus accomplishes what he himself calls “the already out-of-date psycho-geographical tour of London, ideal for foreign visitors, with over 250 sites of anti-historical value, incomplete, without instructions, now available for all (the rich) on the World Wide Web.”

Anyone could find a better visitor's guide to London, but it would be in a book, not on the web. Bunting gives the viewer something to interact with, even if the pictures are low quality. Interactivity is a characteristic that correlates with the internet. The viewer clicks and is immediately transported to another place in London. You certainly can't get that from a book.

Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries Presents "Love and Kill"

Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries has presented us with many thought provoking flash projects. This screenshot comes from their flash presentation "Love and Kill." Many of their creations were done in 2000. "Love and Kill" starts out with a countdown, as do all their works. Then words begin flashing on the screen, then sentences. The words that are flashed really make you think about the work and what the title might suggest of it.

"Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries is a Seoul -based Web art group consisting of Marc Voge (U.S.A.) and Young-Hae Chang (Korea). Their work, presented in 14 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. In 2000, YHCHI's work was recognized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for its contribution to Online Art. 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. 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."

Shredder 1.0

Mark Napier created the website Shredder 1.0 in 1998. When you launch the Shredder, you type in a website address or choose from the many listed and the Shredder does exactly what you would think. It shreds the website. Breaks it down to html coding and distorted images. A very boring website can be shredded to become interesting. "The Shredder dematerializes the web. Posing as a browser, it prompts the user for a URL, then appropriates that web page to use as raw material for its own fragmented output. It exposes the frailty of a medium that relies on software instructions to create the appearance of a consistent environment. A voracious public artwork, the Shredder feeds on the web to propagate its own aesthetic agenda."Once shredded, the website becomes a chaotic mess that is oddly beautiful. The creator of Shredder 1.0 had this to say:

"The web is not a publication. Web sites are not paper. Yet the current thinking of web design is that of the magazine, newspaper, book, or catalog. Visually, aesthetically, legally, the web is treated as a physical page upon which text and images are written.

Web pages are temporary graphic images created when browsing software interprets HTML instructions. As long as all browsers agree (at least somewhat) on the conventions of HTML there is the illusion of solidity or permanence in the web. But behind the graphical illusion is a vast body of text files -- containing HTML code -- that fills hard drives on computers at locations all over the world. Collectively these instructions make up what we call 'the web'. But what if these instructions are interpreted differently than intended? Perhaps radically differently?

The web browser is an organ of perception through which we 'see' the web. It filters and organizes a huge mass of structured information that spans continents, is constantly growing, reorganizing itself, shifting its appearance, evolving. The Shredder presents this global structure as a chaotic, irrational, raucous collage. By altering the HTML code before the browser reads it, the Shredder appropriates the data of the web, transforming it into a parallel web. Content become abstraction. Text becomes graphics. Information becomes art." - Mark Napier

superbad

This is from a website called Superbad. It was created by Ben Benjamin in 1997. This is one of the first artistic website created. It is deeply involved with user interaction. You never know where you will end up in the site when you click on something. This site allows you to explore and see many strange images and objects. Benjamin incorporates bright colors and many different rollovers. Each page connected to this website is different and unique. It can be a little confusing and frustrating at times if you keep ending back up in the same place, but that is a part of what makes this site so interesting and visually it is never boring.