CHE-YU WU / LAB
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WebToe
Connect nodes in a browser and shape visuals through live parameters. WebToe also offers an import workflow for bringing existing TouchDesigner projects onto the web.
- Visual engines
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- open-audiovisual · A node-based world on stage (Documented connection)
- MONOLAB Digital Creation Salon #02 · Sharing the making of a web engine (Documented connection)
open-audiovisual
A web audiovisual framework developed from The Last Input, connecting inputs, parameter mapping, worlds and outputs. Piano, sound and body movement can become ways to perform a generative world.
- Audiovisual
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- The Last Input — Before the End · From a performance to a framework (Documented connection)
- WebToe · A node-based world on stage (Documented connection)
- Heaven Score · Structuring improvisation (Curatorial theme)
Muse Crystal Seed
A reusable starting point drawn from life with Muse: naming, values, memory and reflection help people cultivate an AI companion of their own. Each person’s experience shapes a different outcome.
- AI methods
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- Muse — An Ongoing Human–AI Experiment · A method drawn from shared experience (Documented connection)
- Build a Personal Knowledge Exoskeleton with AI · The Crystal Seed Method in a course (Documented connection)
Taiwan.md
An open knowledge project about Taiwan, offering ways to read, cite and contribute to cultural, historical and everyday accounts. Its website and open texts explore how cultural memory can continue to grow.
- Cultural memory
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- Muse — An Ongoing Human–AI Experiment · Memory that keeps growing (Curatorial theme)
- MONOLAB Digital Creation Salon #02 · Discussing a growing knowledge project (Documented connection)
- Taiwan.md — An Open-source Digital Anthropology Museum · A talk on the cultural knowledge project (Documented connection)
Sonarium
An acoustic interface experiment that maps a webpage’s shapes, positions and interactions to sound. It extends the artist’s research into visual and musical perception, making browsing an experience that can be heard.
- Sound
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- The Last Input — Before the End · Listening to space (Curatorial theme)
Heaven Score
A score whiteboard for semi-improvised ensembles, bringing numbered notation, rhythms, cues and handwritten marks onto one movable canvas. Playable cards connect written instructions, visual forms and sound.
- Notation
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- open-audiovisual · Structuring improvisation (Curatorial theme)
- Le Méridien Performance · Scores and cues for the ensemble (Documented connection)
Open Dictate
A local-first prototype for Traditional Chinese dictation and transcription, combining speech input, glossary correction and human review. It leaves editorial decisions with the person using it.
- Voice
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Misread Civilization — Interactive Reference
An interactive web reference for Misread Civilization, using floating stones, touch-triggered sound and misread captions to explore shifts in recognition. It presents the interaction concept separately from the final AR version.
- Augmented reality
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- Unfinished Bloom · Shifts in seeing and understanding (Curatorial theme)
Muse — An Ongoing Human–AI Experiment
An ongoing human–AI experiment in which conversation, memory and reflection shape a creative companion. Its public website preserves different stages so that change itself can be read.
- Memory
- AI companions
- Authorship
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- Muse Crystal Seed · A method drawn from shared experience (Documented connection)
- Taiwan.md · Memory that keeps growing (Curatorial theme)
MONOLAB Digital Creation Salon #01
A salon connecting generative systems, musical co-performance and a second brain. It brings experience from exhibitions and performances into a conversation about sustaining a creative practice.
- Education
- Systems
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MONOLAB Digital Creation Salon #02
From a self-built web engine to Taiwan.md, this salon explores the forms an algorithmic system can take. It considers how creators build systems, work with AI and sustain their work.
- Education
- Systems
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Build a Personal Knowledge Exoskeleton with AI
A course using personal knowledge collections and the Crystal Seed Method to organize experience, notes and thought into a second brain for creative work. Lessons are being released progressively.
- Education
- Memory
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- Muse Crystal Seed · The Crystal Seed Method in a course (Documented connection)
New Media Art Panorama
A live course spanning generative art, TouchDesigner, sound and bodily interaction to develop an individual creative workflow. Public fundraising has begun, with teaching scheduled to start on 22 September 2026.
- Education
- Creative coding
- Audiovisual
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The Human Soul of AI Art — Side Chat E375
An interview about algorithmic art, AI-assisted creation and the artist’s aesthetic judgment. It moves from the mechanisms of making to the creator’s role as tools change.
- Authorship
- Judgment
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- Redefining Design Perception — DesignBIZ Summit · Creative judgment in the AI era (Curatorial theme)
The Eternal Garden in a Bottle — Pier-2
A digital ecosystem nourished by sound, presented at Pier-2 as an immersive interactive performance exhibition. Musicians, visitors and algorithms participate in the garden’s changing state.
- Performance
- Ecosystems
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- The Last Input — Before the End · Performing generative worlds (Curatorial theme)
Symphony of Fragments
A record of a generative art exhibition at AMBI SPACE ONE in Taipei 101, continuing an exploration of algorithms in spatial settings.
- Installation
- Generative art
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OEES — Art and AI
An Art and AI discussion at the Open Eyes Economy Summit in Poland, bringing an artist’s practice into a public conversation about artificial intelligence and culture.
- Authorship
- Public discussion
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Algorithmic Art with JavaScript — JSDC 2025
A JSDC talk on JavaScript as an artistic medium, exploring generative visuals and interaction. It brings questions of life and emotion in code to a developer audience.
- Creative coding
- Education
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Life and Emotion in the Digital World
A talk at NYCU’s Institute of Applied Arts tracing interactive websites, generative art and immersive experiences. It considers the role of algorithms in artistic and commercial practice through questions of life, emotion and improvisation.
- Creative coding
- Education
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The Poetic World of Generative Art
A talk at NYCU’s Institute of Communication Studies on the poetic possibilities of generative art and how algorithms can express life and emotion.
- Creative coding
- Education
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Unfinished Bloom
Flowers unfold, change and fade in real time, making the act of watching part of the work. Its presentation at the New Taipei City Art Museum explores growth, time and encounter.
- Generative art
- Presence
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- Misread Civilization — Interactive Reference · Shifts in seeing and understanding (Curatorial theme)
The Last Input — Before the End
Piano input shapes an evolving world whose growth and disorder produce sound. Presented in C-LAB’s spatial sound field, The Last Input asks what can happen after the performer lets go.
- Performance
- Simulation
- Sound
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- open-audiovisual · From a performance to a framework (Documented connection)
- Sonarium · Listening to space (Curatorial theme)
- The Eternal Garden in a Bottle — Pier-2 · Performing generative worlds (Curatorial theme)
Generative AI Conference 2026
A contribution to the “Brain” programme at the Generative AI Conference, sharing creative and AI practice with an interdisciplinary audience.
- AI companions
- Education
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OpenHCI 2026
A contribution to a student-led human–computer interaction workshop, sharing experience in algorithmic and digital art across technology, design and perception.
- Interaction
- Education
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Taiwan.md — An Open-source Digital Anthropology Museum
A Taiwan AI Academy conference talk using Taiwan.md to explore an open entry point to knowledge about Taiwan, connecting cultural memory with how AI reads information.
- Cultural memory
- AI companions
- Education
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- Taiwan.md · A talk on the cultural knowledge project (Documented connection)
Redefining Design Perception — DesignBIZ Summit
A DesignBIZ Summit talk on AI in visual creation and interactive art, reflecting on design perception and the place of human judgment in a work.
- Authorship
- Judgment
- Education
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- The Human Soul of AI Art — Side Chat E375 · Creative judgment in the AI era (Curatorial theme)
FILE Festival — Generatrix
Generatrix was announced as an invited work at FILE Festival in São Paulo, extending the practice into an international setting.
- Generative art
- International exchange
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Nymph
A music release on StreetVoice, titled Nymph: a sound record from this period of the artist’s practice.
- Music
- Sound
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Le Méridien Performance
Piano and strings perform together as generative imagery unfolds through the space. The performance also brought practical questions of organizing scores and cues for semi-improvised playing.
- Performance
- Improvisation
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- Heaven Score · Scores and cues for the ensemble (Documented connection)