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.