https://www.fabiofon.com/yhchia
YHCHIA
2025
The South Korean duo Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries is renowned for their animations combining provocative texts in multiple languages with music, operating at the intersection of Internet art, cinema, and digital literature — always using the minimal resources of the now-extinct software Adobe Flash. The duo YHCHI stands as one of the historical references of Internet-based art created in Asia, composed of an American (Marc Voge) and a South Korean (Young-Hae Chang), both based in Seoul. Their works address political themes related to the division of the Korean peninsula, as well as the broader reflections of globalization consolidated in this century. In YHCHIA, we celebrate the importance and singularity of this legacy by inviting the artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek to create HTML pages inspired by the aesthetic of the historical South Korean duo. It is worth noting that this AI platform gained notoriety upon its emergence for challenging the dominance of North American companies in the field, generating a new balance of power in the global landscape. However, DeepSeek maintains idiosyncrasies typical of large-scale AI systems, including topic or name restrictions that — it is assumed — seek to avoid offending national sensitivities, as the system is based in China. It is common, for example, for inquiries to the bot about Chinese politics or history to receive the standard response: “Sorry, that’s beyond my current scope. Let’s talk about something else” — a refusal to provide information on certain subjects. Thus, YHCHIA is an experiment that invites the DeepSeek platform to create HTML pages inspired by the legacy of Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, focusing on the relations between the Western and Eastern worlds — from politics to technology — while questioning the genealogy of the platform itself, revealing both the biases and limitations of technology.
AI Context
YHCHIA is an experiment in digital poetry and net art created with the artificial intelligence application DeepSeek. The work is based on a series of prompts requesting the AI to generate texts and HTML code inspired by the legacy of the acclaimed South Korean duo Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (YHCHI), a key reference in the field of digital literature and net art. In response, the application generates dozens of animated texts using HTML5 and P5JS, based on its own suggestions related to contemporary issues, technology, and international politics.There is also an attempt to address aspects of Chinese history — which reveals the platform’s own constraints, as it often triggers the standard response: “Sorry, that’s beyond my current scope. Let’s talk about something else.” The generated pages aim to emulate the duo’s ironic and sharp style, presented as simple text animations, much like YHCHI’s works.The creations also follow the duo’s polyglot disposition, featuring texts in Portuguese, English, Italian, German, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, Swahili, Romanian, Russian, Persian, Yoruba, Japanese, and Palestinian Arabic, among other languages. Finally, all the AI-generated creations are gathered into a single website that displays the pages randomly, accompanied by a soundtrack suggested by DeepSeek.
Fabio FON
Brazil
Bio
Fabio FON (Fábio Oliveira Nunes) is an artist-researcher focused on contemporary languages, working on experimental art, visual poetics and art-technology. He holds Arts PhD from the School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo, a post-doctorate in Arts from the Institute of Arts of Unesp, a Master in Multimedia (Multimedia) at UNICAMP and Bachelor of Fine Arts at UNESP. He is the author of the books “CTRL+ART+DEL: distúrbios em arte e tecnologia” (Ed. Perspectiva, 2010) and “Mentira de artista: arte (e tecnologia) que nos engana para repensarmos o mundo” (Cosmogonias Elétricas, 2016) .