Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (Young-Hae Chang, Marc Voge)

Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (장영혜중공업) is a Seoul-based Web art group consisting of Young-Hae Chang and Marc Voge, formed in 1999. Chang is a Korean artist and translator with a Ph.D. in aesthetics from the Universite de Paris I and Voge is an American poet who lives in Seoul.

Their work, presented in 20 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. The group uses "Monaco" as the font for all their work because they liked the way the name sounded. 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. They are 2012 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Creative Arts Fellows. In 2018-19 their work was part of the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9) at the QAGOMA in Brisbane, Australia.

According to the artists, their piece, Dakota, "is based on a close reading of Ezra Pound's Cantos I and the first part of II". Their pieces are characterized by speed, references to film and concrete poetry. Their work is sometimes called digital literature or net art, but there is no consensus. Moreover, their multilingual typography-based creations tackled social and political issues like capitalist corporate culture and the division of the Korean peninsula. Their works also featured the era of the late 1990s and 2000s as a keen understanding of unique Korean circumstances with a grasp of global artistic conventions and proficiency in cutting-edge media.

Their work is held in the collections of the Tate Museum, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia and M+ Hong Kong. The section in M+ has been curated through a unique arrangement, featuring a comprehensive collection of all works produced by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries over the past two decades. And, this collection is regularly updated with their new creations twice a year.