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One day in 2008 in Malaysia, by chance, I videotaped two starkly ordinary events: a dying kitten and a chained monkey. Give me Your Light explores the archetypal capacity of these creatures. The archetypes are death and enslavement. The dying abandoned kitten in a parking lot stands-in for the fatally ill, homeless runaways and abandoned children. The chained monkey suggests slaves, prisoners, abductees, captives, convicts, detainees and internees. Give me Your Light is about the limits of empathy and ubiquitous complicity. The display of Give me Your Light is not a linear video, it is a set of video-clips, sounds, music and words reassembled every two minutes into a new sequence by an algorithm. Events repeat but never in the same order. Clips appear in both monochrome and colour, with music and without, with sound and silent. Contextual structure and affective content collide. (Source: http://glia.ca/2011/BNL/)

Shadows Never Sleep is a visual poem made for the Apple iPhone that can also be viewed on a web browser. The reader can move on to different pictures by clicking on certain points on the screen. The poem is non-linear and the stanzas can be read in any order on each picture. It describes different kinds of shadows using black and white text and images. Annotated by Kevin Chen.

(Source: Description from the Electronic Literature Exhibition catalogue)

Set in the usual monochrome style of Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, the work All Fall Down focus on the fact that everybody will fall down eventually, saints, doctors and bums alike. The work has two seperate narrations and it is near impossible to follow both at the same time as the pace in this work is fast. The work is set to a jazzy soundstrack featuring a long drum solo set to the famous groove from Dave Brubeck's Take Five.

The work was published on Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries' web page in 2002 according to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.