Quotes Wall

Core lines from interviews, talks and self-portraits — picked by Che-Yu

"I describe myself as an old clockmaker — the mechanism itself is the work."

INSIDE Side Chat E375· 2025

"I am, in fact, grateful that the FTX collapse happened."

Interview after FTX overnight zero· 2023

"AI can generate visuals, but cannot bear the wound of choice — cannot live again from failure. The artist carries the responsibility of choice, not of labor."

OEES Congress AI Panel, Krakow, Poland· 2025

"This is not just a website. It is the digital anthropology museum of Taiwan. In the AI era, owning your knowledge sovereignty is not optional — it is necessary."

Taiwan.md launch statement· 2026

"It is all about who designs the rules."

Taiwan.md self-portrait· 2026

"Pinball is a system you can see. DNA is a system you cannot see. Hyperspace is a system you cannot even imagine. He wanted them all."

Taiwan.md self-portrait — childhood triple obsession with systems

"What went to zero was a kind of false everything, not everything itself."

Reflections after FTX

"I am a new-media art creator. I no longer dare to call myself an NFT artist."

INSIDE Side Chat E375 — 2023 identity reset

"You can build your own dream world."

United Daily News, answered at age 17· 2012

"Never give up on any student."

NYU IDM Creative Coding TA — self-defining moment

"He uses zeros and ones to approach the soul. They will never overlap — but the approaching itself is the work."

Closing of Taiwan.md self-portrait