Che-Yu Wu 吳哲宇

Che-Yu Wu 吳哲宇

New Media Artist / Founder of Monoame Design

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"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.

Exhibitions

2026

  • Unfinished Bloom 未竟之花 — New Taipei City Art Museum (2026/04)
  • Taiwan.md — Open-source knowledge infrastructure about Taiwan; 985⭐ / 92K+ readers / 100+ countries / 4 languages; collaboration with National Museum of Taiwan History exploring integration of 550,000+ open data records (2026/03–)

2025

2024

  • Eternal Floral Realm — Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Diamond Towers × LG Taiwan (2024/12)
  • Artist Residency Open Factory — The Eternal Garden in the Bottle — Cent Quatre 104, Paris (TAICCA-supported) (2024/12)
  • Algorithmic Verses: Island Impressions w/ AUO FindArt — Art Taipei (2024/10)
  • Generative Art Dome Projection — dialog() Asia, C-Lab (2024/10)
  • The Soul of Flowers — Eternal Dream Edition — Taoyuan Art × Technology Festival (2024/09)
  • Algorithmic Poems, Chapter III: The Eternal Floral Realm — Orchid — Creative Expo Taiwan (2024/08)
  • The Soul of Flowers — Dialog Asia: Tokyo, Taipei, Seoul (2024/08)
  • "Sacred Forest" × PTS & NHK — Liberty Square, 2,000+ audience (2024/06)
  • The Soul of Flowers — The Digital Art Mile, Basel (2024/06)
  • Shape of Mind — National Chengchi University Art Center (2024/04)
  • SoulFish Collabs — Personal Structures, organized by the European Cultural Centre in Venice during the Venice Art Biennale ⭐ (2024/04)

2023

  • SoulFish — Yilan Digi-Fi Festival, Condé Nast TAIWAN (2023/12)
  • CHEYUWU at Taipei Blockchain Week — BuzhiDAO (2023/12)
  • CHEYUWU at NFT Taipei (2023/12)
  • The Soul of Flowers — Art Basel Miami Beach × Tezos Foundation & Refraction DAO ⭐ (2023/11)
  • The Soul — 2023 Shanghai Light Spot Art Festival (2023/11)
  • Soul Sea — Tehran Tech Summit (2023/11)
  • 𝙎𝙋𝘼𝙍𝙆𝙇𝙀𝙎 — ONBD & Superrare (2023/10)
  • Digital Art Fair Asia w/ Unit London (2023/10)
  • Solo: The Great Equation — 101 AMBI SPACE ONE, Taipei ⭐ (2023/10)
  • 10-year Anniversary Exhibition — Unit London, UK (2023/10)
  • Unbound — Ecology in the Age of Machine — Unit London (2023/08/09–09/05)

2022

  • Project Percentage % — FAB DAO / Ars Electronica ⭐ (2022/09)
  • Fairy Village, In Our Code — Unit London (2022/09)
  • SoulFish — Repetition and Difference: Posthuman & Multispecies, NYCU Art Festival (2022/09)
  • Solo: Chaos Lab — 101 AMBI SPACE ONE, Metaverse Taipei 2022 ⭐ (2022/03/29 first run; 05/20–22 extended run)
  • Rebelion — GALERIA AZUR, Madrid (2022/03)
  • The Body Language — THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space, Venice (2022/01)

2021

  • SACRIFICE — M.A.D.S. Gallery, Milan (first European solo) (2021/12)
  • NEALDIGITAL Gallery — NFT Art Week, Shenzhen (2021/11)
  • PARAÌSO — M.A.D.S. Gallery, Milan (2021/07/23–08/03)

2019

NFT Projects

Collaborations

  • CHEYUWU × White Castle | SliderVerse, 2021 — sliderverse.doodlelabs.io (Art Blocks' first brand collaboration ever)
  • Che-Yu Wu × 6529 Meme cards, 2023 — Season 2, Card 2 | 690 editions
  • Che-Yu Wu × Unit London — BioCode: Ecological Fusion, 2023 — Unbound
  • CHEYUWU × Foundo | Sea Ham — Fashion Voyage, 2023
  • CHEYUWU × Lexus | Urban Contour, 2023
  • MonoLab × LG Taiwan (multi-year, 2024-2025)
  • PTS × NHK / Wansheng Orchestra — Sacred Forest documentary premiere, 2024 (Liberty Square, 2,000+ audience)

Music Releases

Spotify (2025)

StreetVoice (2022-2025)

Music Background

  • 6 years classical piano training (childhood)
  • Chien-Kuo High School Harmonica Club; National Chiao Tung University Piano Club president
  • 2012 — National Student Music Competition, Harmonica Quartet 1st Prize (self-selected: Czardas)
  • 2025-2026 — IRCAM Residency Programme (selected)

Artworks

Work Experience

Academic

  • (former) Assistant Professor of Practice tier — NYCU Institute of Applied Arts (2024/02–06, spring semester of academic year 112, completed)
    • Course: Generative Interactive Art and System Design
    • Tools: p5.js, TouchDesigner, MediaPipe, GLSL Shader

Entrepreneurial

  • Founder / Full-Stack Developer — Monoame Interactive (2014-present)
    • 40+ projects: National Palace Museum, LG, Nissan, Remy Martin, Department of Rapid Transit Systems
    • Founded CreativeCoding.in media & tutorial platform
  • Co-Founder — MonoLab Creative Lab (2024-present, w/ Te-Yi Chu)
  • Co-Founder — Formosa Art Bank DAO / FAB DAO (2021-present, w/ Mashbean Huang) — Taiwan's largest charitable NFT initiative
  • Initiator — Taiwan.md (2026-present) — Open-source knowledge infrastructure about Taiwan

Industry

  • Senior PM / Senior Creative Technologist — Outernets, New York (2020/07-2021/12)
    • Computer Vision + interactive content delivery system
    • Dashboard refactor: React 15→17, bundle -52% (5.8MB→2.8MB), AWS / GraphQL / RabbitMQ
  • Unreal VR/AR Engineer — New Reality Company, R/GA (2019/05-2019/08)
    • Oculus Rift S, Leap Motion, Vive Pro, Magic Leap; Epic Game Grant application
  • Research Assistant — NYU IDM (2018/09-2020/05)
    • TA for Creative Coding, 40+ students
  • Interactive Design Engineer — NTHU Research Center for Technology and Art (2018/02-2018/06)
    • IoT exhibition "Image of NTHU", 500+ daily visitors
  • Cartography & AutoLISP Developer — Shyang-Horng AutoCAD Tech. Center (2014/05-2016/06)

Education

  • M.S. Integrated Digital Media — New York University (NYU) Tandon School of Engineering (2018-2020)
  • B.S. Electrical Engineering — National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) (2014-2018)
  • High School — Chien-Kuo Senior High School, Taipei (2010-2013)

Teaching

Honors

  • Personal Structures, European Cultural Centre — SoulFish exhibited in Venice during the Venice Art Biennale (2024)
  • Cent Quatre 104 Paris Artist Residency — The Eternal Garden in the Bottle (TAICCA-supported, 2024)
  • Art Basel Miami Beach × Tezos Foundation — The Soul of Flowers invited exhibition (2023)
  • Block Tempo Top 30 Most Influential Blockchain Figures in Taiwan — Block Tempo (2024)
  • TAIWAN DESIGN BEST 100 Annual Concept Exhibition Award — The Great Equation / Shopping Design (2023)
  • Tatler Asia Generation T (2022)
  • FutureTech Showcase Selected Work — Floating in the Sky / Palpable Media & Deloitte (2020)
  • NYC Media Lab Exhibition — Accepted VR Work, Floating in the Sky (2020)
  • 1st Prize & Grand Prize — Smart City Hackathon, Industrial Development Bureau Taiwan (2016)
  • 1st Prize & Grand Prize (Microsoft) — Meizhu Hackathon, NTHU × NCTU
  • 1st Prize — Intelligent Ironman Creativity Contest (2013)
  • 1st Prize & Grand Prize — 9th Acer Digital Innovation Award (2013)
  • 2nd Prize — 8th Acer Digital Innovation Award (2012)
  • 1st Prize & Grand Prize — 7th Acer Digital Innovation Award (2011, defeated Professional category as a high schooler)
  • 1st Prize — 6th Acer Digital Innovation Award (2010)
  • 1st Prize — 5th Acer Digital Innovation Award (2009)

Selected Projects

Speakership

2026

  • 2026/9 / 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)
  • 2026/8 — 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 (Aug 18)
  • 2026/7 — OpenHCI'26 (90 min full version)
  • 2026/7 — GIS Taiwan 2026 Roundtable (Grand Hyatt Taipei)
  • 2026/4 — MONOLAB Salon #01 — Tempo House, 100 min
  • 2026/4 — "My Code Finally Came Alive" — TouchDesigner Meetup Talk
  • 2026/4 — Chung Hua University of Science and Technology — New Media Art Lecture
  • 2026/4 — Ministry of Education IDC Campus Lecture
  • 2026/3 — National Museum of Taiwan History — full-day lecture (introduced personally by the deputy director)
  • 2026/3 — Generative AI Annual Meetup
  • 2026/3 — TouchDesigner Workshop — Sun Yat-sen University

2025

  • 2025/11 — The Algorithmic Mirage Dance: JavaScript Opens the Unknown Frontiers of Art / JSDC 2025
  • 2025/11 — Forging Eternal Life and Emotions in the Digital Realm / NYCU IAA seminar
  • 2025/11 — Panel: Art and AI / OEES Congress, Open Eyes Economy, Krakow, Poland
  • 2025/8 — Ambi Space One — Tide Taipei lecture
  • 2025/7 — Open HCI lecture
  • 2025/6 — National Taitung University lecture
  • 2025/6 — Chiayi Cultural Creative Industries Park lecture
  • 2025/5 — National Taiwan University, Probability Course

2024

  • 2024/7 — Art in the AI Era: Exploring New Frontiers of Creativity / Epoch Foundation
  • 2024/6 — Yilan Cultural Technology Forum — Eternal Life and Soulfish
  • 2024/6 — Chien-Kuo High School lecture
  • 2024/5 — National Ilan University
  • 2024/4 — National Chengchi University lecture
  • 2024/3 — National Taiwan University CSIE lecture

2023

2022 and earlier

Writing

Medium Long-form

YouTube Tutorial Channel (@bosscodingplease)

Podcast & Interviews

Media Exposure

TV

Brand Feature

Exhibition Coverage

NFT Coverage

Education & Growth

Others

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