He, She, It: Residing in Multiple Universes

He, She, It: Residing in Multiple Universes was the second Digital Creation and NFT Open Call Exhibition at the National Chengchi University Art & Culture Center, part of the digital art series of the 24th NCCU Art Residency Program. It ran from 20 March to 6 June 2024 in the Yi-sin Gallery on the centre’s fourth floor. The open call asked how people form connections with objects, and how each keeps a time and space of its own.

The centre invited the new media artists Newyellow and Che-Yu Wu as exhibition advisors. The two helped select the students’ submissions and also showed work alongside NCCU students and staff as invited artists. Nine of the eleven exhibitors came through the open call, with photography, watercolour, digital work and programming, shown as picture books, cards and transparencies. With support from akaSwap, the works were also made into commemorative NFTs that visitors could draw at random on site.

Che-Yu Wu showed Shape of Mind. Seven black-and-white prints hung on the gallery wall, and on a plinth in front of them stood a pen plotter. Each day the centre’s staff loaded a different variant of the algorithm, and the plotter drew it on A4 paper with a single pen for half an hour to an hour, the finished sheets laid on the floor. On the evening of 24 April he and Newyellow gave the talk Experience and Guide of Digital Creation at the Digital Art Center on the second floor, then took the audience up to the fourth floor to see the show.