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."