BUST D0WN THE D00RS!

HERE you can find the link to the flash video.

Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries has created a number of different flash videos. The particular one that I was interested in, Bust Down The Doors!, was released in 2000.

Young-Hae Chang, a Korean artist, and Marc Voge, an American poet based in Seoul, were participants at a Net Art workshop in Brisbane, Australia. At the workshop they focused on Flash, a web animation tool that would take years to master. While there, they went over the first two topics of Flash which were making text appear on the screen and then setting it to music. After going to the workshop, Chang and Voge created Flash movies of fast moving text set to music under the name Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries. Bust Down The Doors! in 2000 was a Flash movie that told a story of a midnight raid on a house from different perspectives.

This video is different from others today because it sticks with the most basic of concepts from Flash. This artist and poet have made an art out of this style of Flash movies. Since the videos are all text, a lot can be taken from the font style and size. With the focus on the meaning of the words, the pace of the text and the music in the background, the viewer becomes a participant as is a characteristic of New Media Art.

I like this because it is different from the other New Art that I have found. In this case it isn't the direct participation that is required rather an indirect one as you watch the videos. Because this type of old school style to their videos is what thay do I wouod say to keep bringing new things to the table in the way of font usage as well as background music.