CHE-YU WU · New media art · Sound · Algorithms



# Che-Yu Wu吳哲宇



I once sought eternity. Now I find myself cherishing the present.



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.



[Works & Exhibitions →](https://cheyuwu.com/work/)[About](https://cheyuwu.com/about/)[Contact](https://cheyuwu.com/contact/)



![Che-Yu Wu performs at the piano beside a projection of a generative city](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/the-last-input/09-performance-city-2400.jpg)



2026.10.22–24 · C-LAB, Taipei*Upcoming*

## The Last Input — Before the End

Explore the work →

[https://cheyuwu.com/exhibition/the-last-input/](https://cheyuwu.com/exhibition/the-last-input/)



A world fed by the piano, then left to write its own ending.

Performance photograph: 林亞蓁, commissioned by C-LAB



01 · NOW



## Now



![](https://cheyuwu.com/)
2026.10.22–24*Upcoming*The Last Input — showcase of the full version, about twenty minutesC-LAB, Taipei

[https://cheyuwu.com/exhibition/the-last-input/](https://cheyuwu.com/exhibition/the-last-input/)



![](https://cheyuwu.com/)
2026.08–10*On now*FILE São Paulo 2026: INTER-CRIATIVIDADE — 240507: Reality Lens, invitedSão Paulo

[https://cheyuwu.com/work/reality-lens/](https://cheyuwu.com/work/reality-lens/)



![](https://cheyuwu.com/)
2026.09.24–10.11*Ended*Taiwan Design Expo, Life Around Water — Cymatics of Life, a twelve-metre interactive projected water surfaceTaoyuan

[https://cheyuwu.com/work/cymatics-of-life/](https://cheyuwu.com/work/cymatics-of-life/)



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2026.09.24–10.11*Ended*Taiwan Design Expo, TAOYUAN RE:CODE — Woven Land, Woven River, algorithmic weaving on a ring of LEDTaoyuan

[https://cheyuwu.com/work/woven-land-woven-river/](https://cheyuwu.com/work/woven-land-woven-river/)



02 · SELECTED WORKS



## Selected works



[Works & Exhibitions →](https://cheyuwu.com/work/)[Full archive →](https://cheyuwu.com/work/archive/)


- ![Woven Land, Woven River](https://cheyuwu.com/)
  2026 · Installation
  
  ### Woven Land, Woven River
  
  
  
  A live algorithmic weaving system turns thirty-five years of Taiwan's carbon data, Taoyuan's ponds and rivers, and visitors' daily choices into one continuously growing cloth on a ring of LED.
  
  [https://cheyuwu.com/work/woven-land-woven-river/](https://cheyuwu.com/work/woven-land-woven-river/)
- ![Cymatics of Life](https://cheyuwu.com/)
  2026 · Installation
  
  ### Cymatics of Life
  
  
  
  A twelve-metre projected wall of water driven by visitors’ answers: each response becomes a frequency, and the water reveals a ripple mandala on the phone and on the wall at once.
  
  [https://cheyuwu.com/work/cymatics-of-life/](https://cheyuwu.com/work/cymatics-of-life/)
- ![SoulFish](https://cheyuwu.com/)
  2022 · Installation
  
  ### SoulFish
  
  [https://cheyuwu.com/work/soulfish/](https://cheyuwu.com/work/soulfish/)
- ![Unfinished Bloom](https://cheyuwu.com/)
  2026 · Installation
  
  ### Unfinished Bloom
  
  [https://cheyuwu.com/work/unfinished-bloom/](https://cheyuwu.com/work/unfinished-bloom/)
- ![The Eternal Garden in a Bottle](https://cheyuwu.com/)
  2025 · Installation
  
  ### The Eternal Garden in a Bottle
  
  [https://cheyuwu.com/work/eternal-garden-in-a-bottle/](https://cheyuwu.com/work/eternal-garden-in-a-bottle/)
- ![Algorithmic Verses](https://cheyuwu.com/)
  2025 · Installation
  
  ### Algorithmic Verses
  
  [https://cheyuwu.com/work/algorithmic-verses/](https://cheyuwu.com/work/algorithmic-verses/)
- ![The Great Equation](https://cheyuwu.com/)
  2023 · Installation
  
  ### The Great Equation
  
  [https://cheyuwu.com/work/the-great-equation/](https://cheyuwu.com/work/the-great-equation/)
- ![The Coffee Dreamscape](https://cheyuwu.com/)
  2025 · Installation
  
  ### The Coffee Dreamscape
  
  [https://cheyuwu.com/work/coffee-dreamscape/](https://cheyuwu.com/work/coffee-dreamscape/)



03 · 2025



## 2025 in review



On 31 May 2025, at a piano concert in Huashan 1914 Creative Park, the audience could sit or lie down while, for ninety minutes, the visuals were generated live from the playing. That year MONOLAB, the studio he founded, made two performances, two exhibitions, four teaching programmes and four brand collaborations. The two concerts at Huashan drew 131 visitors, and The Eternal Garden in a Bottle drew 475 over six days at Pier-2 in October. The work went into an LG product launch and became a generative painting on the wall of Starbucks Reserve DREAM PLAZA Taipei. Teaching ran from a p5.js workshop at National Sun Yat-sen University and a two-day TouchDesigner bootcamp at Wild Lab to a weekly livestream at the end of the year, from 9 November to 21 December.



![MONOLAB 2025 Annual Highlights](https://cheyuwu.com/)


MONOLAB 2025 Annual Highlights · Monolab Official[YouTube ↗︎](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2qRrNNSSQM)



## MONOLAB 2025 Annual Highlights



> “We have been doing the same thing all along: building an organic interaction between viewers and digital dreams.”
> 
> MONOLAB, description of the 2025 annual film, YouTube, January 2026 (translated)



### Performances2



![](https://cheyuwu.com/)

[https://cheyuwu.com/work/algorithmic-verses/](https://cheyuwu.com/work/algorithmic-verses/)


1. 2025.05.31, 06.07[Algorithmic Poetry: The Boundary of Dreams and Solitude →](https://cheyuwu.com/work/algorithmic-verses/)Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Taipei
  
  Premiere of the immersive piano concert: two ninety-minute shows, 131 visitors.
2. 2025.09.03The Boundary of Dreams and Solitude, extended performanceAMBI SPACE ONE, Taipei 101
  
  An extra performance for a networking party at AMBI SPACE ONE.



### Exhibitions2



![](https://cheyuwu.com/)

[https://cheyuwu.com/work/eternal-garden-in-a-bottle/](https://cheyuwu.com/work/eternal-garden-in-a-bottle/)


1. 2025.10.21–26[The Eternal Garden in a Bottle →](https://cheyuwu.com/work/eternal-garden-in-a-bottle/)Pier-2 Art Center, B10 Warehouse, Kaohsiung
  
  The full version of the 2024 Paris residency prototype: ten interactive instruments, four evening concerts, 475 visitors in six days.
2. 2025.10.31–11.02[Symphony of Fragments →](https://cheyuwu.com/exhibitions/symphony-of-fragments/)AMBI SPACE ONE, Taipei 101
  
  A new commission for AMBI SPACE ONE's Ambi Artech Hub, The Future of Art programme: visitors shape light and sound with their gestures.



### Teaching4


![A frame from the first weekly TouchDesigner livestream](https://cheyuwu.com/)

1. 2025.03.22p5.js workshop, National Sun Yat-sen UniversityNational Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung
  
  A one-day p5.js creative coding workshop for the course Interdisciplinary Innovation Project I.
2. 2025.08–TouchDesigner online courseMONOLAB Education
  
  MONOLAB's online course site, starting with a fundamentals course, with assignments and demo files for students.
3. 2025.08.30–31TouchDesigner bootcamp for beginnersWild Lab
  
  A two-day in-person workshop for people new to TouchDesigner.
4. 2025.11.09–12.21Weekly TouchDesigner livestreamYouTube
  
  About an hour per episode, building one real-time visual from scratch. Seven episodes aired in 2025.



### Collaborations4



![](https://cheyuwu.com/)

[https://cheyuwu.com/work/coffee-dreamscape/](https://cheyuwu.com/work/coffee-dreamscape/)


1. 2025.04VOLVO artist interviewVOLVO
  
  An artist interview shoot with VOLVO.
2. 2025.07.02[LG, Physis is not a thing, it's an act →](https://cheyuwu.com/exhibitions/lg-physis/)BREEZE MEGA STUDIO, Taipei
  
  An LG OLED product launch: seven generative art zones and a live performance.
3. 2025.07.25[Starbucks, The Coffee Dreamscape →](https://cheyuwu.com/work/coffee-dreamscape/)Starbucks Reserve DREAM PLAZA Taipei
  
  A permanent real-time generative painting that changes with Taipei's time and weather.
4. 2025.08BenQ RD series programming monitorsInstagram
  
  A short video on his Instagram introducing the programming monitors.



04 · LAB · 2018–2026



## Lab



Daily coding since 2018: 828 pieces, each one runs right on the page.



![Strange Robots, a frame from the running piece](https://cheyuwu.com/)



[**Strange Robots** 2021-03-28](https://lab.cheyuwu.com/s/210328-strange-robots/)



> I want every work to be a digital life form. It is more fun that way.
> 
> Che-Yu Wu, October 2026 (translated from Chinese)



works



828



featured



262



poems



108



families



47



人間繁華，文明興起與衰亡，



化為女神的囈語閒談，跨越了千萬年。



[Poem from Whisperings of Goddesses・2023-06-02](https://lab.cheyuwu.com/s/230602-whisperings-of-goddesses/)



[Enter the Lab →](https://cheyuwu.com/lab/)[lab.cheyuwu.com ↗︎](https://lab.cheyuwu.com/)



05 · MORE



## Strata, music, thinking and about



Strata · 2001–2026



### [What each year left behind](https://cheyuwu.com/strata/)



From primary school to this year: 13 walls, every record with a public source.


- [2026](https://cheyuwu.com/strata/2026/)
- [2025](https://cheyuwu.com/strata/2025/)
- [2024](https://cheyuwu.com/strata/2024/)
- [2023](https://cheyuwu.com/strata/2023/)
- [2022](https://cheyuwu.com/strata/2022/)
- [2021](https://cheyuwu.com/strata/2021/)
- [2020](https://cheyuwu.com/strata/2020/)
- [2019](https://cheyuwu.com/strata/2019/)
- [2018](https://cheyuwu.com/strata/2018/)
- [2017](https://cheyuwu.com/strata/2017/)
- [University](https://cheyuwu.com/strata/2016/)
- [Secondary school](https://cheyuwu.com/strata/2013/)
- [Primary school](https://cheyuwu.com/strata/2007/)



Music · Latest song



![](https://cheyuwu.com/)


### [260830 若蟲 Nymph ↗︎](https://streetvoice.com/frank890417/songs/877013/)



2026-08-30 · StreetVoice



60 songs on StreetVoice and 6 piano releases on Spotify.

[Go to Music →](https://cheyuwu.com/music/)



Thinking · Latest dialogue



### [Twelve Rounds, One Day Before the Talk](https://cheyuwu.com/dialogues/2026-09-02-designbiz-from-zero/)



No. 1 · 2026-09-02



Memory is the substance of life itself. Life is building a castle in a void world — we are at once our own foundation and our own next stone. The work is stone laid upon stone, paving a road into other people's worlds. Once AI brings the friction of execution and thought down to zero, what remains hard is being continuous — finding your own sunlight, the way coral does. So we, as human beings, can finally wake up.

[All thinking & writing →](https://cheyuwu.com/thinking/)



About



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### [Biography, CV and press](https://cheyuwu.com/about/)



[About →](https://cheyuwu.com/about/)[CV →](https://cheyuwu.com/cv/)[Press →](https://cheyuwu.com/press/)[Contact →](https://cheyuwu.com/contact/)



[Works, research, and a continuing recordEnter the archive ↗︎](https://cheyuwu.com/work/archive/)

Exhibitions, commissions and collaborations: [Contact →](https://cheyuwu.com/contact/)



## The Last Input · Rehearsal film



Video hosted on YouTube.