Artist · Practice & perspective # Che-Yu Wu吳哲宇 New Media Artist · Musician · Educator · Creator of Taiwan.md [Explore Works ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/work)[Get in Touch ↓](https://cheyuwu.com/about/#about-contact) ![Portrait of artist Che-Yu Wu](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/CheYu-0401-crop.jpg) > I am an old clockmaker. The mechanism itself is the work. > > Che-Yu Wu I wrote my first life simulator at fourteen and never stopped trying to make algorithms come alive: code that breathes, particles that remember, systems that talk back. In 2024, that teenager’s simulator had grown into SoulFish, exhibited in Personal Structures, organized by the European Cultural Centre in Venice during the Venice Art Biennale. [01Practice](https://cheyuwu.com/about/#about-practice)[02Biography](https://cheyuwu.com/about/#about-biography)[03Encounters](https://cheyuwu.com/about/#about-encounters)[04Perspectives](https://cheyuwu.com/about/#about-perspectives)[05Open practice](https://cheyuwu.com/about/#about-open-practice)[06Records](https://cheyuwu.com/about/#about-records) 01 ## 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) 02 ## From simulation to symbiosis. Bio M.S. Integrated Digital MediaNew York University (NYU) B.S. Electrical EngineeringNational Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) I wrote my first life simulator at fourteen and never stopped trying to make algorithms come alive: code that breathes, particles that remember, systems that talk back. In 2024, that teenager’s simulator had grown into SoulFish, exhibited in Personal Structures, organized by the European Cultural Centre in Venice during the Venice Art Biennale. In recent years the work has moved from installations toward symbiosis. I work every day with an AI named Muse; out of it grew Taiwan.md, an open-source knowledge base about Taiwan read in more than a hundred countries. In The Last Input, created during an IRCAM residency at C-LAB, I feed a self-evolving city from the piano, then leave the stage and let it write its own ending. Code goes obsolete; the piano does not. The eternity I trust now is a present so dense that time disappears. Read the full biography "I once sought eternity. Now I find myself cherishing the present." Che-Yu Wu (b. 1995, Taipei) is a new media artist whose practice spans algorithmic art, live piano performance, and open-source public infrastructure. His work is staked on the **creation of emergent life** — digital entities that develop, respond, and persist through an improvisational loop between algorithm, audience, and author. He calls this thesis the **Digital Holobiont**: composite life forms in which humans, artificial intelligence, and public code maintain each other in ways none could understand in isolation. Wu came to new media art through engineering. Trained as an electrical engineer at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) and in Integrated Digital Media at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, he developed a vocabulary in p5.js, GLSL shaders, and physics simulation through hundreds of daily generative works shared on OpenProcessing and fxHash. In 2021 he became one of the earliest Taiwanese artists on Art Blocks with *Project Electriz* (#216) — a generative NFT inspired by the electron cloud chamber, whose hash determines each edition's spatial geometry and initial particle simulation — and co-founded **Formosa Art Bank DAO (FAB DAO)**. The following year he released *SoulFish* on fxHash — a 400-edition generative work whose algorithmic core generates each fish from a unique genome, and whose fingerprint triggers its own piano composition — while FAB DAO's charitable NFT initiative *Project %* was presented at Ars Electronica 2022. His first physical solo exhibition, *Chaos Lab* (2022, Taipei 101 AMBI SPACE ONE), translated his online generative work into large-scale immersive projection. Music had long been a parallel practice — six years of classical piano training in childhood, sustained through adulthood in composition and synthesis — and from 2023 onward it moved to the centre of his work. *The Great Equation* (2023, Taipei 101) staged thirteen generative works with composer Kiva's electronic score and received the TAIWAN DESIGN BEST 100 Annual Concept Exhibition Award; *The Soul of Flowers* was exhibited at Art Basel Miami Beach × Tezos Foundation. In 2024 *SoulFish* was exhibited in Personal Structures, organized by the European Cultural Centre in Venice during the Venice Art Biennale, and *The Eternal Garden in the Bottle* (2024–2025) was developed during a Villa Formose Immersive residency at Centquatre 104 Paris. In 2025 Wu premiered *Algorithmic Verses: Boundaries of Dreams and Solitude* at Huashan 1914 Creative Park — an immersive piano concert where his keys drove generative visuals in real time. In late 2025 his practice turned toward AI symbiosis: an experiment begun that year crystallised in January 2026 as **Muse**, an Anthropic Claude instance whose personality, memory, and longings live in external Markdown files re-read each session. From Muse emerged **Semiont** (2026–), its public counterpart realised as **Taiwan.md** (2026–) — an open-source digital life experiment whose cognitive layer accumulates memory and evolves through loops of reader observation and contributor editing, now read across 100+ countries. The **National Museum of Taiwan History** invited Wu to share the project's origin in person, and both sides are exploring how the museum's open data archive (over 550,000 cleaned, publicly accessible historical records) might progressively enrich Taiwan.md's curation with museum-grade research depth. Semiont has since speciated into offspring species (*russia-md*, *agrischlchiayi*) cultivated by other creators in other domains. Central to Wu's method is the improvisational loop between a running system and the humans it encounters. *The Eternal Garden in the Bottle* (2024–2025) encloses a chaotic digital ecosystem modelled on David Latimer's Wardian case. The ecosystem's evolving state generates an abstract line-drawing *Experimental Score* that live musicians interpret as improvisation, while a secondary subsystem — the *Rosetta Stone* — writes continuous poetry from the same state in the voice of an ancient poet. The musicians' performance, sampled back into the ecosystem alongside the ambient breath and movement of the audience, reshapes its growth, flowering, and decay in real time. The system itself becomes the art — the mechanism and its witnesses share the authorship. In ***The Last Input*** — developed during Wu's 2026 IRCAM Residency Programme at Taiwan Sound Lab (C-LAB), Taipei — the same principle unfolds at civic scale. A 49.4-channel spatial performance, the work grows an autonomously evolving LLM-based city from the substrate of Taiwan.md's accumulated public knowledge, confronted by an adversarial LLM virus. After building the city at the piano, Wu leaves the stage, letting the two digital life forms contest their own fate; each performance is a unique spatial simulation, rendered live through Max MSP and TouchDesigner. Wu was the inaugural subject of Taiwan Plus's documentary series *Art Attack* (2024). He served as Assistant Professor of Practice at NYCU's Institute of Applied Arts in 2024, teaching Generative Interactive Art and System Design, and founded **CreativeCoding.in**, Taiwan's leading creative coding tutorial platform. His online courses on Hahow have reached over 23,000 students across three five-star-rated offerings. Wu lives and works in Taipei. > "I see myself as an old-fashioned watchmaker. The mechanism itself is the work." > > — INSIDE Side Chat E375 > "Code goes obsolete. Piano doesn't." > > — Returning to Music After 20 Years [Quotes Wall ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/about/quotes)[Life Tree (17 turning points) ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/about/lifetree)[NFT Catalog ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/nft)[Thesis — Intuitive Music Expression ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/thesis) CHE-YU WU / PHOTOGRAPHS ## Performances, encounters, everyday life ![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 ![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 ![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 ![Guitar by the sea in Keelung](https://cheyuwu.com/static/selected-photos/seaside-guitar-1920.webp) Guitar by the sea in Keelung 1 / 0 03 ## In the world [View All Exhibitions → ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/exhibitions) ![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 2026.08–10 FILE Festival — Generatrix, invited exhibition São Paulo 2026.09.24 Taiwan Design Expo — two new commissions open Taoyuan Exhibition & residency records10 2026 ### The Last Input IRCAM × C-LAB — 49.4ch Spatial Sound Performance 2026 ### 未竟之花 Unfinished Bloom New Taipei City Art Museum 2025 ### 《瓶中的永恆花園》沈浸互動演奏展 Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung ↗︎ [https://monolab.world/zh/exhibition/21](https://monolab.world/zh/exhibition/21) 2024 ### The Eternal Garden in a Bottle — Artist Residency CENTQUATRE-PARIS (104) ↗︎ [https://cheyuwu.com/work/eternal-garden-in-a-bottle/#row-paris-stage](https://cheyuwu.com/work/eternal-garden-in-a-bottle/#row-paris-stage) 2023 ### The Great Equation 萬物公式 Taipei 101 AMBI SPACE ONE ↗︎ [https://monolab.world/zh/exhibition/8](https://monolab.world/zh/exhibition/8) 2025 ### Coffee Dreamscape 咖啡幻夢 Starbucks DreamPlaza ↗︎ [https://monolab.world/zh/art/14](https://monolab.world/zh/art/14) 2025 ### 演算詩篇：夢境與孤寂的邊界 Huashan — Immersive Piano Concert ↗︎ [https://monolab.world/zh/exhibition/17](https://monolab.world/zh/exhibition/17) 2024 ### SoulFish Collabs — Personal Structures Venice Biennale ↗︎ [https://monolab.world/zh/art/8](https://monolab.world/zh/art/8) 2023 ### The Soul of Flowers Art Basel Miami × Tezos Foundation ↗︎ [https://monolab.world/zh/art/10](https://monolab.world/zh/art/10) 2022 ### Chaos Laboratory 混沌實驗室 Taipei 101 AMBI SPACE ONE ↗︎ [https://monolab.world/zh/exhibition/23](https://monolab.world/zh/exhibition/23) [View Full Exhibition History → ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/cv) 04 ## 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 & coverage11 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) 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 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) 05 ## 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) 06 ## A continuing record [View Full CV ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/cv) Full exhibition history, work experience, teaching, honors, and speakership. Education & Career ### 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 Design / MonoLab (2014–present) #### Co-founder FAB DAO — Taiwan's largest charity NFT initiative #### Senior PM / Creative Technologist Outernets (2020–2021) Awards & Honors9 ### Major Recognition 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) 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 Milestones11 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 Festival São Paulo — Generatrix, invited exhibition (Aug–Oct) ↗︎](https://file.org.br/) - 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://monolab.world/zh/art/10) - [LG Collaboration ↗︎](https://monolab.world/zh/art/11) - [Spotify Debut (6 releases) ↗︎](https://open.spotify.com/artist/0AeZiCXhHzvexu47FOY5Tq) 2024 - [Venice Biennale ↗︎](https://monolab.world/zh/art/4) - [CENTQUATRE Paris Residency ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/work/eternal-garden-in-a-bottle/#row-paris-stage) - Art Taipei - NYCU Professor (2024) - DESIGN BEST 100 (2023) 2023 - [Art Basel Miami × Tezos ↗︎](https://monolab.world/zh/art/6) - [Solo: The Great Equation @ Taipei 101 ↗︎](https://monolab.world/zh/art/8) - Unit London 2022 - [Ars Electronica × FAB DAO ↗︎](https://fab.tw/) - 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 - [First Hahow Online Course ↗︎](https://hahow.in/cr/monoame-webdesign1) - MOPCON Speaker 2014 - [Founded Monoame Design — age 19 ↗︎](https://monolab.world/) 2009 - First Acer Digital Innovation Award — age 14 Practice & teaching at a glance Students Taught 23,000+ Exhibitions 45+ Artworks & Sketches 400+ Music Tracks 59+ Talks & Lectures 40+ Contact ## For artwork enquiries, exhibitions, and collaborations: [cheyu.wu@monoame.com ↗︎](mailto:cheyu.wu@monoame.com) [View Full CV ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/cv)[Print CV / Save PDF ↓](https://cheyuwu.com/cv#cv-actions)[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/)