Friday, October 23, 2009

Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries







Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries is a two person operation that has one person from the United States and One Person from Seoul, Korea.The Type of web art they do is done almost completely in flash and presented in the Monaco font. They use sound in their videos which usually consists solely of jazz music. The piece "Halbeath" is a reference to a factory in Scotland that was closed down.This is a link project for one dead link made by failed globalization. Halbeath is located between Glasgow and Edinburgh Scotland. There's a closed microchip plant made by South Korean Company Hyundai & LG After they left Motorola tried to run the factory. But now the factory is closed again since they left in 2001

The site consists of a touchtone phone shown in a SWF file format that shows movement without the natural motion of video. There is jazz music that punctuates the movement giving it a life of its own.There is writing centered in the middle of the page show in different sizes but still centered to itself. The words give directions to Halbeath and give the destination a palpabilty that would otherwise be forgotten by the transient nature of modern society. The piece is nothing if not simplistic, but it communicates its point very well.

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