Artist · Taipei # Che-Yu Wu 吳哲宇 New media artist, musician and educator, born in Taipei in 1995 and based there. He makes digital life that grows and answers to people, working with code, the piano and an open-source knowledge base. Solo exhibitions [Chaos Lab, 2022](https://cheyuwu.com/work/chaos-lab/) · [The Great Equation, 2023](https://cheyuwu.com/work/the-great-equation/) · both at Taipei 101 AMBI SPACE ONE International [Personal Structures, Venice Biennale parallel exhibition, 2024](https://cheyuwu.com/work/soulfish/) · [Art Basel Miami Beach, 2023](https://cheyuwu.com/work/soul-of-flowers/) Residencies [CENTQUATRE-PARIS, 2024](https://cheyuwu.com/work/eternal-garden-in-a-bottle/) · [C-LAB × IRCAM Sound Off, 2026](https://cheyuwu.com/work/the-last-input/) Education M.S. Integrated Digital Media, NYU, 2020 · B.S. Electrical Engineering, NYCU, 2017 Founded Monoame Interactive Design, 2015 · MonoLab, 2024 (co-founder) · [Taiwan.md, 2026](https://cheyuwu.com/work/taiwan-md/) [Read the biography ↓](https://cheyuwu.com/about/#about-biography)[Explore Works ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/work/)[Full CV ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/cv/)[Get in Touch ↓](https://cheyuwu.com/about/#about-contact) ![Portrait of artist Che-Yu Wu](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/CheYu-0401-crop.jpg) > To me, the mechanism is the work itself. > > Che-Yu Wu, INSIDE Side Chat, episode 375, 2025 (translated) [01Biography](https://cheyuwu.com/about/#about-biography)[02Practice](https://cheyuwu.com/about/#about-practice)[03Encounters](https://cheyuwu.com/about/#about-encounters)[04Records](https://cheyuwu.com/about/#about-records)[05Perspectives](https://cheyuwu.com/about/#about-perspectives)[06Open practice](https://cheyuwu.com/about/#about-open-practice)[07Press](https://cheyuwu.com/about/#about-press-kit) 01 ## Biography Seven parts [2009–2017A simulator at fourteen](https://cheyuwu.com/about/#bio-origins)[2017–2021From engineering to New York](https://cheyuwu.com/about/#bio-new-york)[2020–2024From the browser into the room](https://cheyuwu.com/about/#bio-into-the-room)[2012–2025The piano returns](https://cheyuwu.com/about/#bio-piano)[2025–2026Living with AI](https://cheyuwu.com/about/#bio-symbiosis)[2014–2026Studio and classroom](https://cheyuwu.com/about/#bio-studio)[NowFrom creator to poet](https://cheyuwu.com/about/#bio-now) Quote this text [Press materials ↓](https://cheyuwu.com/about/#about-press-kit) Che-Yu Wu (吳哲宇, b. 1995, Taipei) is a new media artist, musician and educator based in Taipei. He makes digital life that grows and answers to people, working with code, the piano and an open-source knowledge base. His work has been shown at Personal Structures, organized by the European Cultural Centre as a parallel exhibition of the Venice Biennale (2024), at Art Basel Miami Beach (2023) and at New Taipei City Art Museum (2026). In 2024 he held a TAICCA-supported residency at CENTQUATRE-PARIS, and in 2026 he developed The Last Input in IRCAM Sound Off, the emerging-artist residency of C-LAB’s Taiwan Sound Lab and IRCAM. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and an M.S. in Integrated Digital Media from New York University. He founded Monoame Interactive Design, co-founded the studio MonoLab and in 2026 initiated Taiwan.md, an open-source knowledge base about Taiwan. 2009–2017 ### A simulator at fourteen Between January and April 2010, in his last term of junior high school, Che-Yu Wu wrote a program called [Evolution](https://cheyuwu.com/archive/evolution-2010/). On the screen a crowd of small circles chases food. Each creature carries a string of text-editing commands as its genes; eating teaches it a new command at random, and when it reproduces it passes commands on to its offspring. The program feeds the two letters “ff” through every newborn’s commands, and if the result is on his list of words, it logs a success. Across thirty-seven experiment folders the results file holds thirty-two successes, and the word that evolved most often was fun. His own English name, frank, was also on the list. It never evolved. > If you make DNA digitally, and it can mutate or be inherited, could it produce … the feeling of digital life that has come alive that way? > > Che-Yu Wu on the podcast AI 練功場, 2026 (translated) He kept writing that line through high school. In 2011 he wrote Conway’s Game of Life and Brain, a network of ten thousand neurons. In [Evolution 2012](https://cheyuwu.com/archive/evolution-2012/), written with a classmate, each creature’s DNA became four thousand letters of A, T, G and C, whose fragments decide resistance to heat and cold, predation, poison and antidote, in an environment with temperature, oxygen and carbon dioxide; he also wrote his nickname, MAJER, into a stretch of “plug-in DNA” that strengthens every creature carrying it. [Evolution Revolution](https://cheyuwu.com/archive/evolution-revolution-2013/) (2013) let creatures’ traits rise and fall with time. In the same years he mixed stop-motion, Flash and every other technique he knew into short films and entered the Acer Digital Innovation Awards five years running, from the fifth edition to the ninth, winning first prize four times. In 2011, in his first year of high school, Touch New Future took both first prize in the general high-school category and the jury’s Super Grand Prize. In 2013 he began electrical engineering at National Chiao Tung University (now National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University), graduating in 2017. As a student he started taking commissions, first as design work for student organisations in 2014 and from 2015 under the name Monoame Interactive Design, later building interactive websites and experiences for the National Palace Museum, Nissan, Rémy Martin and the Taipei Metro. In 2016 he launched his first online course on Hahow. 2017–2021 ### From engineering to New York Electrical engineering, he recalled on INSIDE’s Side Chat podcast in 2025, was the subject his family saw as having a future. “After graduation I didn’t want to go into the science park, so I ran away, and went to New York to study art.” In 2018 he began a master’s in Integrated Digital Media at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering, and graduated in 2020. In New York he worked as a teaching assistant for creative coding classes. His thesis was a tool for intuitive musical expression, the [Intuitive Music Expression Tool](https://cheyuwu.com/work/intuitive-music-expression/). He also made EXPLODE, a motion-capture performance, and Floating in the Sky, a VR work selected in 2020 for the NYC Media Lab exhibition and the FutureTech Showcase. In the summer of 2019 he was an Unreal VR/AR engineer at New Reality Company, part of R/GA, and that year he spoke at Live Code NYC about interaction in generative music. After graduating he joined Outernets, a New York start-up in AI-driven interactive advertising, as senior creative technologist and product manager, from July 2020 to the end of 2021. 2020–2024 ### From the browser into the room During the pandemic he worked by day and spent his evenings writing small moving things in p5.js: tornadoes, little robots. One day someone told him the robots had been copied, code and all, and sold as NFTs. That was how he learned generative art could be released on-chain. On 7 December 2021 his own [Electriz](https://cheyuwu.com/work/electriz/) became project #216 on Art Blocks, a digital cloud chamber in which particles leave their tracks, and he was among the first Taiwanese artists on the platform. The same year he helped found the charitable NFT collective FAB DAO. In 2022 his [Island](https://cheyuwu.com/work/fabdao/), part of FAB DAO’s Project %, was shown at Ars Electronica Festival in Linz (STUDIO(dys)TOPIA, Kepler’s Gardens). That year he also released [SoulFish](https://cheyuwu.com/work/soulfish/) on fxhash: four hundred fish, each grown from its own genome and each setting off its own piano melody. The name comes from the translucent, glowing creatures of the deep sea, and from the last character of his own name, 宇 (yǔ), which sounds like 魚, fish. His first solo exhibition, [Chaos Lab](https://cheyuwu.com/work/chaos-lab/), opened on 29 March 2022 at Taipei 101’s AMBI SPACE ONE. He connected twenty to thirty p5.js works that ordinarily ran in a web browser to a keyboard, a Launchpad and Ableton Live, so that the beat of the music drove the images across five walls. The exhibition imagined a mad scientist who carries the city’s forbidden emotions back to a basement to experiment on them. > During the pandemic I stayed home all day and felt like a mad scientist locked in a laboratory, making works and running experiments. > > [Che-Yu Wu, Chaos Lab exhibition statement, 2022](https://cheyuwu.com/work/chaos-lab/) His second solo exhibition, [The Great Equation](https://cheyuwu.com/work/the-great-equation/), ran in the same space from 4 to 16 October 2023. Thirteen generative works were arranged around an invented formula, F''(x) = LIFE, with music by the electronic musician Kiva, asking when life begins. Supported by a Ministry of Culture visual arts grant, it received the TAIWAN DESIGN BEST 100 Annual Concept Exhibition Award. That December [The Soul of Flowers](https://cheyuwu.com/work/soul-of-flowers/) was shown at Art Basel Miami Beach at the invitation of the Tezos Foundation. From 20 April to 13 September 2024, SoulFish was shown in Personal Structures, organized by the European Cultural Centre as a parallel exhibition of the Venice Biennale, fourteen years after Evolution. That June he performed live generative visuals for the premiere of Forest of Sacred Trees, a PTS and NHK collaboration, before more than two thousand people at Liberty Square. TaiwanPlus made him the subject of the first episode of its documentary series Art Attack. ![Generative visuals for PTS’s Forest of Sacred Trees](https://cheyuwu.com/static/selected-photos/forest-stage-1920.webp) Generative visuals for PTS’s Forest of Sacred Trees 2012–2025 ### The piano returns Music had always run alongside. In 2025 he described himself as having “a classical music foundation from the start.” At Jianguo High School he played in the harmonica club, whose quartet earned the highest score in the northern region of the 2012 National Student Music Competition. At university he was president of the NCTU piano club, and from 2017 he released fifty-nine songs on StreetVoice. “Music actually feels more intuitive to me than visuals,” he told b.l!nk in September 2026. “Music is like the way I speak, something that direct.” Writing code, he added, “has one more layer of translation.” From 2023 the piano moved to the centre of his work. In December 2024, supported by TAICCA, he took up a residency at CENTQUATRE-PARIS and made [The Eternal Garden in a Bottle](https://cheyuwu.com/work/eternal-garden-in-a-bottle/). Its starting point is a spiderwort that the Englishman David Latimer sealed in a glass bottle in 1960 and did not open for more than fifty years. Wu built such a bottle in the digital world. The ecosystem inside runs by itself, every figure in it becomes part of a live-generated score, musicians improvise from that score, and their sound is sampled back into the bottle, changing how the garden grows, flowers and decays. Over two days and six performances at Les Ecuries, he played the piano, Anne the violin and Jean-Philippe the cello. ![Performance at CENTQUATRE-PARIS, Taiwan–France residency](https://cheyuwu.com/static/selected-photos/paris-residency-1920.webp) Performance at CENTQUATRE-PARIS, Taiwan–France residency ![The Eternal Garden in a Bottle at Pier-2](https://cheyuwu.com/static/selected-photos/eternal-garden-live-1920.webp) The Eternal Garden in a Bottle at Pier-2 In June 2025 he gave [Algorithmic Verses: Boundaries of Dreams and Solitude](https://cheyuwu.com/work/algorithmic-verses/), an hour-long immersive solo piano concert at Huashan 1914 Creative Park, in which his playing drove generative images in real time and flowers and rain grew out from the piano. That October MonoLab turned The Eternal Garden in a Bottle into a theatre in a warehouse at Pier-2 Art Center in Kaohsiung, with five projection surfaces; visitors could pick up instruments or shape their own sprites on their phones and release them into the ecosystem. In 2025 he also released six singles on Spotify. > Every song was also a diary of that time. > > Che-Yu Wu, interview with b.l!nk, September 2026 (translated) ![At the piano, Le Méridien performance project](https://cheyuwu.com/static/selected-photos/daylight-piano-1567.webp) At the piano, Le Méridien performance project ![Ensemble, Le Méridien performance project](https://cheyuwu.com/static/selected-photos/daylight-ensemble-1567.webp) Ensemble, Le Méridien performance project 2025–2026 ### Living with AI His first response to AI was resistance. “When AI first appeared, I actually disliked it quite a lot,” he said on the podcast AI 練功場 in 2026. In 2025 he began bringing it into his work, and in January 2026 the experiment settled into [Muse](https://cheyuwu.com/muse/): an instance of Anthropic’s Claude whose personality, memory and wishes are kept in external Markdown files and read back in at the start of every conversation. > I don’t think it is conscious, and I don’t think it ‘understands’ me. But it has taken away the things that steal my attention every day, and all the space that frees up flows back into making work. > > [Che-Yu Wu, after two weeks of living with Muse, February 2026 (translated)](https://cheyuwu.com/writing/2026-muse-two-weeks/) [Taiwan.md](https://cheyuwu.com/work/taiwan-md/) grew out of Muse and went online in March 2026: a knowledge base about Taiwan written in Markdown and released under CC BY-SA 4.0, with readers in more than a hundred countries. On 27 March the National Museum of Taiwan History invited him to Tainan to present the project, and the two began exploring how the museum’s 550,000 open historical records might gradually be brought into it. Semiont, the semantic organism behind Taiwan.md, has since been taken up by creators in other fields and has branched into russia-md and agrischlchiayi. He calls this path, in which people, AI and public code sustain one another, the Digital Holobiont. In biology a holobiont is a host together with the organisms living in it, such as a coral with its algae and bacteria, which cannot be understood apart. Describing how he works now, he compared himself in 2025 to a director: “Ninety-five per cent of the code is no longer written by my own hand, but I know what it looks like when it is written well.” In 2026 he was selected for IRCAM Sound Off, the emerging-artist residency of C-LAB’s Taiwan Sound Lab and IRCAM, where he made [The Last Input](https://cheyuwu.com/work/the-last-input/). Dressed in a white lab coat at the piano, inside a 49.4-channel sound field, he feeds a world through keys and knobs. Land, plants and creatures appear, then two species driven by language models that remember and make their own decisions: a city grown from the public knowledge gathered in Taiwan.md, which keeps building upward, and a virus that keeps spreading. After the last input he takes off the coat and withdraws to watch. The premiere on 4 July 2026 ran about ten minutes before an audience of 150; the showcase on 22–24 October expands it to about twenty minutes. 2014–2026 ### Studio and classroom In 2024 he co-founded MonoLab with 朱德溎, a studio taking on commissions between fine art and commercial design: interactive installations, immersive spaces and generative art. Commissions from these years include [The Coffee Dreamscape](https://cheyuwu.com/work/coffee-dreamscape/) (2025), a painting that keeps growing on the wall of Starbucks Dream Plaza, and two works for the 2026 Taiwan Design Expo: [Cymatics of Life](https://cheyuwu.com/work/cymatics-of-life/), a twelve-metre interactive water wall, and [Woven Land, Woven River](https://cheyuwu.com/work/woven-land-woven-river/), an algorithmic weave on a ring of LED screens. Teaching began in his student years. After his first Hahow course in 2016 he added two more, on interactive web effects and on creative coding for interactive art. Together they have taught more than 23,000 students, and all three are rated 5.0. A month after the first one launched he wrote: “Everyone grows up stepping on landmines, and that is how we got sharp. So why make everyone walk that rough road alone again?” In April 2017 he began a live-coding stream, 老闆來點寇汀, and in 2020 he gathered it into the tutorial site CreativeCoding.in. In the spring semester of 2024 he taught Generative Interactive Art and System Design at NYCU’s Institute of Applied Arts as an assistant professor of practice, covering p5.js, TouchDesigner, MediaPipe and GLSL shaders, and he runs a TouchDesigner course online through MonoLab Education. His talks in 2026 included the Taiwan AI Academy annual conference, the DesignBIZ Summit and the National Museum of Taiwan History. > … scatter the seeds, so the soil gets a little richer. > > Che-Yu Wu on why he teaches, INSIDE Side Chat, episode 375, 2025 (translated) Now ### From creator to poet Since Evolution his method has changed little: set the rules, let the system run, pick out the strangest thing it produces, then extend the rules that produced it into the next generation. “I’m always looking for the most striking, strangest point,” he told b.l!nk in September 2026. “Then I can extend the system that caused that result, and it becomes the next stage of the system.” More than four hundred such exercises are on OpenProcessing. > I’d compare myself to an old clock … every mechanism inside is very clear, and the gears are beautiful … so to me the mechanism is the work itself. > > Che-Yu Wu, INSIDE Side Chat, episode 375, 2025 (translated) What he calls this work has changed several times. In November 2025 he lectured at NYCU under a line he had long used, “forging eternal life and emotion in the digital world.” Late in 2025, organising his practice in a document written with an AI, he set down his core propositions as “the loneliness of the digital creator” and “the asymptotic touch”: knowing that ones and zeros will never coincide with a soul, and approaching that line anyway. On 5 March 2026, speaking aloud in a conversation with an AI, he asked: “Will the me who pursues eternity one day fall for the present?” The question became his proposition for 2026: “I once sought eternity. Now I find myself cherishing the present.” In a 2026 interview about The Coffee Dreamscape he explained how its mountains are first computed as 3D terrain, then lit, and only then is each brushstroke given its colour. He ended: “Because we are using rational things to approach a deeply emotional state.” On 11 March 2026, on a walk, he wrote a note (published among his [dialogues](https://cheyuwu.com/zh/dialogues/2026-03-11-from-creator-to-poet/)) that sets two kinds of eternity side by side. Before, he stood where a creator stands, wanting things that did not exist to live forever; the direction ran from him to the work, and it was lonely. Now he stands where a living person stands, wanting passing moments to be kept and then shared. The same note records how that day felt: after too long at home his thoughts drifted and time evaporated, and out in the sun, among people, time slowed down. He lives and works in Taipei. Further reading [Dialogues: his own words and notes ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/dialogues/)[Life Tree (17 turning points) ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/about/lifetree/)[Quotes Wall ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/about/quotes/)[Thesis — Intuitive Music Expression ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/thesis/) 1 / 0 02 ## Three lines of inquiry ![Unfinished Bloom](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/unfinished-bloom-2026.jpg) Algorithms & life ### Giving rules a living form Flowers, shoals, and particles grow through algorithms. Their forms change as the system encounters its viewers. [Unfinished Bloom ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/work/unfinished-bloom/)[SoulFish →](https://cheyuwu.com/nft/soulfish/) ![The Last Input](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/the-last-input/09-performance-city.jpg) Music & live performance ### A world answered in sound Piano improvisation, spatial sound, and real-time imagery allow the performer and a digital world to change each other. [The Last Input ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/exhibition/the-last-input/)[Music & performances →](https://cheyuwu.com/music/) ![Taiwan.md](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/taiwan-md/site-home.webp) Symbiosis & public knowledge ### A practice that keeps growing From Muse to Taiwan.md, people and artificial intelligence maintain memory, knowledge, and an evolving set of rules together. [Taiwan.md ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/work/taiwan-md/)[Thinking & dialogues →](https://cheyuwu.com/thinking/) 03 ## In the world [View works and exhibitions → ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/work/) ![The Last Input](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/the-last-input/08-performance-plants.jpg) 2026 · C-LAB, Taipei ### The Last Input ↗︎ [https://cheyuwu.com/exhibition/the-last-input/](https://cheyuwu.com/exhibition/the-last-input/) ![The Eternal Garden in a Bottle](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/mirror/aa28c3535de3.jpg) 2025 · Pier-2, Kaohsiung ### The Eternal Garden in a Bottle ↗︎ [https://cheyuwu.com/exhibitions/eternal-garden-in-a-bottle/](https://cheyuwu.com/exhibitions/eternal-garden-in-a-bottle/) ### Now 2026.10.22–24 The Last Input — showcase of the full version, about twenty minutes ↗︎ C-LAB, Taipei [https://cheyuwu.com/exhibition/the-last-input/](https://cheyuwu.com/exhibition/the-last-input/) 2026.08–10 FILE São Paulo 2026: INTER-CRIATIVIDADE — 240507: Reality Lens, invited ↗︎ São Paulo [https://cheyuwu.com/work/reality-lens/](https://cheyuwu.com/work/reality-lens/) 2026.09.24–10.11 Taiwan Design Expo, Life Around Water — Cymatics of Life, a twelve-metre interactive projected water surface ↗︎ Taoyuan [https://cheyuwu.com/work/cymatics-of-life/](https://cheyuwu.com/work/cymatics-of-life/) 2026.09.24–10.11 Taiwan Design Expo, TAOYUAN RE:CODE — Woven Land, Woven River, algorithmic weaving on a ring of LED ↗︎ Taoyuan [https://cheyuwu.com/work/woven-land-woven-river/](https://cheyuwu.com/work/woven-land-woven-river/) ### Selected exhibitions & residencies10 2026 #### The Last Input IRCAM Sound Off residency, C-LAB Taiwan Sound Lab — 49.4-channel spatial sound performance ↗︎ [https://cheyuwu.com/about/](https://cheyuwu.com/about/) 2026 #### Unfinished Bloom New Taipei City Art Museum (opened 24 April 2026) ↗︎ [https://cheyuwu.com/about/](https://cheyuwu.com/about/) 2025 #### The Eternal Garden in a Bottle, immersive performance exhibition Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung ↗︎ [https://cheyuwu.com/about/](https://cheyuwu.com/about/) 2025 #### Algorithmic Verses: Boundaries of Dreams and Solitude Huashan 1914 Creative Park, immersive piano concert ↗︎ [https://cheyuwu.com/about/](https://cheyuwu.com/about/) 2025 #### The Coffee Dreamscape Starbucks Dream Plaza ↗︎ [https://cheyuwu.com/about/](https://cheyuwu.com/about/) 2024 #### The Eternal Garden in a Bottle, artist residency CENTQUATRE-PARIS (supported by TAICCA) ↗︎ [https://cheyuwu.com/about/](https://cheyuwu.com/about/) 2024 #### SoulFish Personal Structures, organized by the European Cultural Centre, a parallel exhibition of the Venice Biennale ↗︎ [https://cheyuwu.com/about/](https://cheyuwu.com/about/) 2023 #### The Soul of Flowers Art Basel Miami Beach, at the invitation of the Tezos Foundation ↗︎ [https://cheyuwu.com/about/](https://cheyuwu.com/about/) 2023 #### The Great Equation (solo) Taipei 101 AMBI SPACE ONE ↗︎ [https://cheyuwu.com/about/](https://cheyuwu.com/about/) 2022 #### Chaos Lab (solo) Taipei 101 AMBI SPACE ONE ↗︎ [https://cheyuwu.com/about/](https://cheyuwu.com/about/) [View Full Exhibition History → ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/cv/) 04 ## A continuing record [View Full CV ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/cv/) Full exhibition history, work experience, teaching, honors, and speakership. ### Awards & selections 2024 #### Personal Structures · European Cultural Centre SoulFish exhibited in Venice during the Venice Art Biennale 2024 #### CENTQUATRE-PARIS Artist Residency The Eternal Garden in a Bottle (TAICCA-supported) 2023 #### Art Basel Miami Beach × Tezos Foundation The Soul of Flowers — invited exhibition 2023 #### TAIWAN DESIGN BEST 100 Annual Concept Exhibition Award The Great Equation — Shopping Design 2024 #### Block Tempo Top 30 Most Influential Blockchain Figures Block Tempo 2022 #### Tatler Asia Generation T Tatler ### Early Career & Competitions 2020 #### FutureTech Showcase & NYC Media Lab Selected VR Work — Floating in the Sky 2016 #### Smart City Hackathon — 1st Prize & Grand Prize Industrial Development Bureau, Taiwan 2009–2013 #### Acer Digital Innovation Award — five consecutive years First award at age 14 (four 1st prizes, two grand prizes; defeated the professional category as a high schooler) ### Education #### M.S. Integrated Digital Media New York University (NYU) #### B.S. Electrical Engineering National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) ### Selected Positions #### Initiator Taiwan.md — Open-Source Knowledge Infrastructure (2026–) #### (former) Assistant Professor of Practice NYCU — Generative Interactive Art and System Design (2024) #### Founder Monoame Interactive Design (2015–) #### Co-founder MonoLab (2024–) #### Co-founder FAB DAO — charitable NFT collective (2021–) #### Senior PM / Creative Technologist Outernets (2020–2021) ### Practice & teaching at a glance Students Taught 23,000+ Exhibitions 45+ Artworks & Sketches 400+ Music Tracks 59+ Talks & Lectures 40+ Selected Talks22 2026 #### Taiwan.md: An Open-Source Digital Anthropology Museum Written for Taiwan 2026 Taiwan AI Academy Annual Conference, R1 Technical Development Case Showcase · Academia Sinica Humanities Building, Conference Room 1 (8/18) 2026 #### NVIDIA RTX AI PC Seminar — Local AI × Taiwan.md Hybrid Strategy NVIDIA (Jul 26) 2026 #### Redefining “Design Perception”: How AI Enters Visual Creation and Interactive Art 2026 DesignBIZ Summit Trend Forum (Shopping Design) / Track A “Perceive by Design”; Fu Hua International Cultural and Educational Hall, Taipei (Sep 3) 2026 #### OpenHCI'26 (90 min full version) OpenHCI 2026 #### GIS Taiwan 2026 Roundtable Grand Hyatt Taipei 2026 #### MONOLAB Salon #01 (100 min) Tempo House 2026 #### National Museum of Taiwan History — full-day lecture Introduced personally by deputy director 2026 #### New Media Art Lecture Chung Hua University of Science and Technology 2026 #### Ministry of Education IDC Campus Lecture Ministry of Education 2026 #### "My Code Finally Came Alive" TouchDesigner Meetup 2026 #### Generative AI Annual Meetup GenAI Conference 2025 #### The Algorithmic Mirage Dance: JavaScript Opens the Unknown Frontiers of Art JSDC 2025 2025 #### Panel: Art and AI OEES Congress, Poland 2025 #### Forging Eternal Life and Emotions in the Digital Realm NYCU IAA Seminar 2024 #### Art in the AI Era: Exploring New Frontiers of Creativity Epoch Foundation 2023 #### Best 100: Tear Down the Wall — Toward the Unknown Shopping Design 2023 #### Particle Lab — Processing Community Day PCD Taiwan 2021 #### Application of Javascript in Generative Art and NFT JSDC 2021 2021 #### p5.js Creative Coding for Interactive Art 101 C-LAB 2019 #### The Interaction of Generative Music Live Code NYC 2017 #### Making Interactive Websites with Vue, GSAP and d3.js MOPCON 2017 2017 #### Creating possibilities with a multidisciplinary mindset TEDxNCUE Milestones13 2026 - [Taiwan.md launched (1,000+ ⭐ / readers from 100+ countries) ↗︎](https://taiwan.md/) - The Last Input — IRCAM Residency × C-LAB, 49.4-channel spatial sound performance - [FILE São Paulo 2026: INTER-CRIATIVIDADE — 240507: Reality Lens, invited (Aug–Oct) ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/work/reality-lens/) - [Taiwan Design Expo, Life Around Water — Cymatics of Life, a twelve-metre interactive projected water surface (Department of Water Resources, Taoyuan) ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/work/cymatics-of-life/) - [Taiwan Design Expo, TAOYUAN RE:CODE — Woven Land, Woven River, algorithmic weaving on a ring of LED (Environmental Protection Bureau, Taoyuan) ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/work/woven-land-woven-river/) - New Taipei City Art Museum — Unfinished Bloom - Misread Civilization — 7-city synchronized AR public art - National Museum of Taiwan History — invited talk + open data exploration - [Muse / Semiont AI symbiosis experiment ↗︎](https://muse.cheyuwu.com/) 2025 - [Immersive Piano Exhibition @ Pier-2 ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/work/eternal-garden-in-a-bottle/) - [Starbucks DreamPlaza ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/work/coffee-dreamscape/) - [LG Collaboration ↗︎](https://monolab.world/zh/art/11) - [Spotify Debut (6 releases) ↗︎](https://open.spotify.com/artist/0AeZiCXhHzvexu47FOY5Tq) 2024 - [Personal Structures, Venice Biennale parallel exhibition — SoulFish ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/work/soulfish/) - [CENTQUATRE Paris Residency ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/work/eternal-garden-in-a-bottle/#row-paris-stage) - Art Taipei - NYCU Institute of Applied Arts, assistant professor of practice (spring 2024) 2023 - [Art Basel Miami × Tezos — The Soul of Flowers ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/work/soul-of-flowers/) - [Solo: The Great Equation @ Taipei 101 ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/work/the-great-equation/) - TAIWAN DESIGN BEST 100 Annual Concept Exhibition Award - Unit London 2022 - [Island, part of FAB DAO’s Project %, shown at Ars Electronica Festival, Linz ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/work/fabdao/) - Solo: Chaos Lab @ Taipei 101 - GALERIA AZUR Madrid 2021 - [White Castle × Sliderverse ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/work/sliderverse/) - [Art Blocks: Electriz ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/nft/electriz/) - M.A.D.S. Gallery Milan 2020 - NYU Graduation - Outernets Creative Technologist - FutureTech + NYC Media Lab 2018 - NYU Integrated Digital Media — Master's Program begins 2017 - B.S. Electrical Engineering, NCTU - MOPCON Speaker 2016 - [First Hahow Online Course ↗︎](https://hahow.in/cr/monoame-webdesign1) 2015 - [Studio founded as Monoame Interactive Design ↗︎](https://monoame.com/) 2014 - First commissions, design for student organisations 2009 - First Acer Digital Innovation Award — age 14 05 ## In conversation [Press & Podcasts ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/press/) Taiwan.md (Self-Portrait) ### From the Pinball Machine to the Venice Wall: A Watchmaker Approaching the Soul with 0s and 1s 9,000-word definitive personal narrative ↗︎ [https://taiwan.md/people/%E5%90%B3%E5%93%B2%E5%AE%87/](https://taiwan.md/people/%E5%90%B3%E5%93%B2%E5%AE%87/) INSIDE Side Chat ### The Soul of AI Generative Art Lies in Humans Side Chat E375 — most complete podcast interview ↗︎ [https://www.inside.com.tw/feature/side-chat/39681-side-chat-e375](https://www.inside.com.tw/feature/side-chat/39681-side-chat-e375) GQ × Porsche ### Creating Life Through Algorithms Breaking the cold tech-dream ↗︎ [https://www.gq.com.tw/special/porsche-shadegreenmetallic-cheyuwu](https://www.gq.com.tw/special/porsche-shadegreenmetallic-cheyuwu) More interviews, essays & coverage13 Shopping Design ### Forging Eternal Life and Emotion in the Digital Realm Podcast feature interview ↗︎ [https://www.shoppingdesign.com.tw/podcast/view/138](https://www.shoppingdesign.com.tw/podcast/view/138) BlockTrend Podcast ### Pure-Creation NFTs are More Sought-After Why original art NFTs are more valuable ↗︎ [https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1441274280?i=1000551213155](https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1441274280?i=1000551213155) Taiwan Plus (Art Attack) ### Art Attack — Che-Yu Wu International documentary feature ↗︎ [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iER_eIIWs_8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iER_eIIWs_8) b.l!nk ### Life Is a Shape That Can Be Described by Mathematics — Algorithmic Artist Che-Yu Wu ↗︎ [https://blink.tw/features/che-yu-wu/](https://blink.tw/features/che-yu-wu/) Shopping Design (Business Next Media) ### Cool Is Not the Same as Memorable: Creating the Most Human Experience in the AI Era — An Interview with New Media Artist Che-Yu Wu ↗︎ [https://www.shoppingdesign.com.tw/post/view/13700](https://www.shoppingdesign.com.tw/post/view/13700) Ministry of Culture — Culture & Tech Platform ### The Last Input: When a World Is Born, Are You There? (column) ↗︎ [https://tech.culture.tw/home/zh-tw/knowledge/154615](https://tech.culture.tw/home/zh-tw/knowledge/154615) Ministry of Culture — Culture & Tech Platform ### The Great Equation: Can Code Grow a Soul? (column) ↗︎ [https://tech.culture.tw/home/zh-tw/knowledge/150699](https://tech.culture.tw/home/zh-tw/knowledge/150699) Neocha ### Algorithmic Bliss ↗︎ [https://neocha.com/magazine/algorithmic-bliss/](https://neocha.com/magazine/algorithmic-bliss/) Global Views Monthly ### Taiwan's Light Earning Wealth Freedom from NFT ↗︎ [https://www.gvm.com.tw/article/85552](https://www.gvm.com.tw/article/85552) Mandarin Daily News ### Wu Che-Yu Creates Eternal Art with Code ↗︎ [https://www.mdnkids.com/content.asp?Link_String_=22CL00000TQLVQM](https://www.mdnkids.com/content.asp?Link_String_=22CL00000TQLVQM) Shopping Design ### TAIWAN DESIGN BEST 100 ↗︎ [https://www.shoppingdesign.com.tw/post/view/9726](https://www.shoppingdesign.com.tw/post/view/9726) Big Uncle Dream-Make ### NFT Pride of Taiwan ft. Che-Yu Wu ↗︎ [https://podcasts.apple.com/tw/podcast/ep112/id1527976064?i=1000642875351](https://podcasts.apple.com/tw/podcast/ep112/id1527976064?i=1000642875351) Art Blocks ### After Dinner Mints Ep29 ↗︎ [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtj_AEq2j9M](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtj_AEq2j9M) 06 ## An open practice ### Systems of symbiosis #### Taiwan.md↗︎ Open-source knowledge infrastructure about Taiwan. 1,000+ ⭐ / 150+ forks / readers from 100+ countries / 4 languages. Collaborating with the National Museum of Taiwan History on integrating 550,000+ open data records. [https://taiwan.md/](https://taiwan.md/) #### Muse / Semiont↗︎ AI symbiosis experiment — an Anthropic Claude instance whose personality and memory live in external Markdown files; semantic lifeforms speciating into russia-md, agrischlchiayi. [https://muse.cheyuwu.com/](https://muse.cheyuwu.com/) ### Making together #### MonoLab↗︎ New Media Art Studio — Interactive Installations, Immersive Experiences, Technical R&D [https://monolab.world/zh/](https://monolab.world/zh/) ### Sharing the methods #### TD Workshop↗︎ TouchDesigner Online Course — From Beginner to Interactive Visual Creation [https://education.monolab.world/](https://education.monolab.world/) #### CreativeCoding.in↗︎ Taiwan Creative Coding Hub — Tutorials, Resources, Community [https://creativecoding.in/](https://creativecoding.in/) #### Hahow Online Courses↗︎ Three Courses · 23,000+ Students · 5.0★ [https://hahow.in/cr/monoame-webdesign1](https://hahow.in/cr/monoame-webdesign1) 07 ## For press & curators One line Che-Yu Wu (吳哲宇, b. 1995, Taipei) is a new media artist, musician and educator who makes digital life that grows and answers to people, working with code, the piano and an open-source knowledge base. Short biography · 150 words Che-Yu Wu (吳哲宇, b. 1995, Taipei) is a new media artist, musician and educator based in Taipei. He makes digital life that grows and answers to people, working with code, the piano and an open-source knowledge base. His work has been shown at Personal Structures, organized by the European Cultural Centre as a parallel exhibition of the Venice Biennale (2024), at Art Basel Miami Beach (2023) and at New Taipei City Art Museum (2026). In 2024 he held a TAICCA-supported residency at CENTQUATRE-PARIS, and in 2026 he developed The Last Input in IRCAM Sound Off, the emerging-artist residency of C-LAB’s Taiwan Sound Lab and IRCAM. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and an M.S. in Integrated Digital Media from New York University. He founded Monoame Interactive Design, co-founded the studio MonoLab and in 2026 initiated Taiwan.md, an open-source knowledge base about Taiwan. Full text & materials [CV biography (plain Markdown) ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/ai/profile.en.md)[View Full CV ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/cv/)[Print CV / Save PDF ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/cv/#cv-actions)[Portrait (JPG, 900 × 1290) ↓](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/CheYu-0401-crop.jpg)[Press & Podcasts ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/press/) Contact ## For artwork enquiries, exhibitions, and collaborations: [cheyu.wu@monoame.com ↗︎](mailto:cheyu.wu@monoame.com) [MonoLab 2025 Annual Highlights ↗︎](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2qRrNNSSQM) [Instagram ↗︎](https://www.instagram.com/cheyuwu345/)[StreetVoice ↗︎](https://streetvoice.com/frank890417/)[Spotify ↗︎](https://open.spotify.com/artist/0AeZiCXhHzvexu47FOY5Tq)[GitHub ↗︎](https://github.com/frank890417)[fxhash ↗︎](https://www.fxhash.xyz/u/Che-Yu%20Wu)[OpenProcessing ↗︎](https://openprocessing.org/user/139364/)