Re: [-empyre-] original form

[YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES <tfa@chollian.net>]

Hi Mike,

"What kind of interaction occurred between the two parties to generate
the 'first piece ever' in what became a remarkable series?"

It was 1999, and Kim Machan was organizing the first Multimedia Art Asia
Pacific (MAAP) Net art residency in Brisbane for four artists. Young-hae
went alone, because, believe it or not, when we applied, we didn't think it
wise at the time to risk suggesting that two people who were completely
unknown to the new media art world should both deserve to participate. We
were completely ignorant of the new media art collectives that were out
there at the time. 

Kim Machan, crazy as she is, chose "Young-hae Chang" on the merits of an
application in which we stated that we knew nothing about new media art and
Net art.  

A couple of months before Young-hae went to Brisbane, we received a suite of
Macromedia software from MAAP. It was all daunting, especially Director, but
Flash seemed the most promising. We loaded it into a PowerBook (but didn't
use it).

We prepared the text of ARTIST'S STATEMENT N0. 45,730,944: THE PERFECT
ARTISTIC WEB SITE in Seoul, but didn't have the know how to put it into
Flash. Once in Brisbane, Young-hae, with the help of the MAAP tech team,
especially Jeff Sams, turned it into the forebear of this:

http://www.yhchang.com/PERFECT_ARTISTIC_WEB_SITE.html

Attention: New version soon!

Young-hae and Marc


On 5/11/05 1:54 PM, "Mike Leggett" <Mike.Leggett@uts.edu.au> wrote:

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> I'll join the throng who 'light-up' in front of Young-hae and Marc's
> pieces. But I'd like to backtrack for further illumination concerning
> the process that generated 'the first piece ever'........
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> Begin forwarded message:
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>> It might be interesting for everyone out there that Kim Machan,
>> director of
>> Multimedia Art Asia Pacific (http://www.maap.org.au), commissioned
>> YOUNG-HAE
>> CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES' first piece ever,
>> http://www.yhchang.com/PERFECT_ARTISTIC_WEB_SITE.html,
>> way back at MAAP 1999, a piece that has since undergone quite a few
>> face-lifts -- and will undoubtedly undergo another one very soon.
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> Several questions - all may answer!
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> What was 'it' that was seen by Kim to attract her attention?
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> How did Young-hae and Marc feel about the idea of a commission? Did the
> notion of being asked to do something, fall comfortably within their
> cultural remit?
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> What kind of interaction occurred between the two parties to generate
> the 'first piece ever' in what became a remarkable series?
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