ABSTRACT
Formed in 1999 as a Seoul-based web art group consisting of Marc Voge and Young-Hae Chang, their artistic practice is characterized by unique text-based animation synchronized to an original musical score, presented in multiple languages. Plucking cultural capital from iconic films, literature, and their own art canon, YHCHI transforms the original Charlie Chan in Honolulu filmic sequence into an alternative rhizomatic narrative that can be thought of in terms of what Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari have described in Franz Kafka's work as a "castle with multiple entrances" containing "innumerable main doors and side doors that innumerable guards watch over" and "entrances and exits without doors" (3). Melissa Karmen Lee is a visual arts curator and literature scholar and the Director of Education and Public Programs at the Vancouver Art Gallery.