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September 3, 2017 1:15 PM   Subscribe

IT’S BEEN M0RE THAN 13 YEARS SINCE A P0ST AB0UT Y0UNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
(IT WAS AB0UT THEM MENTI0NING US! MENTI0NING THEM HYP0THESIZING AB0UT THE DPRK ATTACKING THE ROK!)
SINCE THEN, THEY’VE PERSISTED IN THEIR L0VE 0F M0NAC0 & FLASH ANIMATI0NS 0F TEXT 0VER SWEET, RHYTHMIC JAZZ. NEW WORKS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
BACK IN THE R.0.KAHSUPER SMILETHE AXIS 0F THE UNIVERSE RUNS THR0UGH Y0UWANT T0 D0 G00D? KN0W H0W T0 SH00T A SEMIAUT0MATIC HANDGUN?LET A HUNDRED ARTW0RKS BL00M, WILT, AND DIESUBJECT: HELL0AOMARI AMORI

posted by Going To Maine (13 comments total) 37 users marked this as a favorite
 
the SF Asian Art museum has an YHC exhibit until the end of the month, and has free admission today.
posted by duende at 1:37 PM on September 3, 2017 [4 favorites]


Oh, God, I remember this site! I loved this. Thanks.
posted by Capybara at 1:41 PM on September 3, 2017


I went back searching her art nor 3 days ago!
posted by growabrain at 1:43 PM on September 3, 2017 [1 favorite]


Wow, 13 years! I remember coming across YHC from here and LOVING their work. Time to jump back in!
posted by nicolas léonard sadi carnot at 2:15 PM on September 3, 2017 [1 favorite]


If you're a fan of Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, I recommend the Kafkaesque "AH" (the title is used very effectively). If you're not a fan of Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, avoid these videos. They may take you into a windowless back room and leave you there.

Thanks for the post, I've missed Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries!
posted by languagehat at 2:15 PM on September 3, 2017


...And if you're a fan of Ezra Pound (and wonky lit-crit analysis), I recommend Jessica Pressman's "The Strategy of Digital Modernism: Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries's Dakota" (from 2008); here's YHCHI's Dakota, here's a convenient text file of Dakota, and here's Art Blakey's "Tobi Ilu," the music used for Dakota (tobi ilu is Yoruba for 'big city').
posted by languagehat at 3:24 PM on September 3, 2017 [1 favorite]


Forgot to add: I love YHCHI's transformation of Pound's
"Lie quiet Divus. I mean, that is, Andreas Divus,/ In officina Wecheli, 1538, out of Homer."
into
"FUCK—YØU, — ELLMANN, — THAT’S RIGHT— RICHARD— ELLMAN—NØRTØN—NEW YØRK, — 1973, —ØN— PØUND."
posted by languagehat at 3:27 PM on September 3, 2017


"AH" is excellent.
posted by kenko at 4:58 PM on September 3, 2017


Must. Control. Myself. Have. Work. To. Do!

(Seriously, thanks for the reminder. YHCHI is about the only reason I'd give for the preservation of Flash)
posted by kandinski at 5:50 PM on September 3, 2017




Memepool told me about them. They told me about Metafilter. That's how it started.

God bless this thing.
posted by koeselitz at 3:46 PM on September 4, 2017 [2 favorites]


Yes! One of the two things I miss about Flash! (The other being Homestar Runner.)
posted by ignignokt at 8:33 PM on September 5, 2017


It would be a damn shame to lose YHCHI for my children's children. Did Adobe ever publish a specification that would let this art outlive Adobe? I believe the ActionScript language and the SWF format are okay (I haven't tried to read the specs), but the whole Flash runtime and API definitions -- the behavior of its renderers and so on -- is still at full risk for format rot, as far as I see.

There is a thing, Shumway, to run SWFs. It's a disused dev experiment, not anything like a product, but now I'm curious if they had some spec they were implementing to. Or just implementing to the Flash API docs, not attempting to be render-for-render compatible.

(A few years ago I tried to find a renderer for a CD-ROM full of, oh gosh, what even was the name of that pre-mp3 audio format that sounded like you were going through an automatic carwash? RealAudio. Maze of twisty little codecs.)
posted by away for regrooving at 1:34 AM on September 6, 2017


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