YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES PRESENTS

SIDELINING INTERACTIVITY,

ILLUSTRATION & COLOUR

THE USER FOLLOWS A KINETIC

TEXT / CONCRETE NARRATIVE

WHICH RHYTHMICALLY

NEGOTIATES DIGITAL SPACE.

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WE FIND,

AND WHILE THERE IS A

DISTINCT FOCUS ON

THE PRESENCE & EXPERIENCE

OF SOUND & TYPOGRAPHY/TEXT,

ACHIEVED BY EMPLOYING

A SIMPLE FORMAT,

COMPLEXLY EVOCATIVE &

IMAGINATIVELY LAYERED

NARRATIVES ARE ESTABLISHED.

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UTILISING FLASH,

AND CREATE FAST-MOVING,
TEXT-BASED WORKS THAT
ARE SYNCHRONISED TO
SHORT ACOUSTIC LOOPS.

RIFFING OFF FAMILIAR
JAZZ SEQUENCES
TO CREATE ORIGINAL SCORES,
HEAVY INDUSTRIES
ALSO REUSES A
SOMEWHAT UNIFORM
TEMPORAL SEQUENCING &
ICONIC MONANCO FONT AND

All the above images are stills from YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES, BLACK ON WHITE, GRAY ASCENDING, 2007 part of their project for the New Museum, New York. HEAVY INDUSTRIES have expanded their usual single-channel format to create an unprecedented seven-channel installation that tells a chilling story of abduction and assassination from seven separate points of view, set to an eerily laid-back bossa nova score. The installation is at once as nostalgic as a 1960s suspense film and as current as the daily headlines.

Links to: Rhizome & NewMuseum.org for more details about the particular project mentioned above, to the YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES site for access to their artworks and an interview with the collective.