CHE-YU WU / LAB
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Project % — Ars Electronica Linz
Project % shown at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria. The TAICCA source page returned HTTP 403 at the time of writing, so this entry records only the title and the dates and makes no claim about the content of the presentation.
- Exhibition
- International
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Daily sketches: Toxic Laurel and Golden Evolution
Two daily sketches that later became seeds for the everything-formula line of work. The OpenProcessing author page was behind a bot-verification wall at the time of writing, so neither sketch page could be read and this entry records only the titles and the date.
- Daily practice
- Generative
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Interactive web design meetup: KIVΛMKII on sci-fi sound
A meetup talk by Kiva Wu of Projectλ Studio. The session organises sound design into dynamics, frequency and space, explains the difference between audio and MIDI tracks, walks through compressors, equalisers, filters and delay, and discusses balancing organic randomness against musical logic a listener can follow.
- Community
- Sound design
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- Interactive web design meetup: Blockstudio on building online · The same interactive web design meetup series (Curatorial theme)
Unit on Chain: Zach Lieberman × Che-Yu Wu
A conversation in Unit London's Unit on Chain series, running alongside the In Our Code exhibition. Zach Lieberman and Che-Yu Wu discuss their routes into creative coding from art and engineering, how emotion and movement carry meaning in algorithmic work, the difference between a technical demo and a poem, teaching the next generation, and why physical exhibitions still matter for generative art.
- Conversation
- Creative coding
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Introduction to tech art — ITSA livestream
A beginner livestream on new media and code-based art, hosted by Creative Coding Taiwan with support from the Ministry of Education ITSA programme. It frames creative coding at the meeting point of design, engineering, mathematics, motion and hardware, demonstrates basic p5.js drawing and interaction alongside MaxMSP sound synthesis and ADSR control, and cites work by Ryoji Ikeda and teamLab.
- Talk
- Teaching
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Interactive web design meetup: Blockstudio on building online
A meetup session with Ming Li, design director at Blockstudio. He presents two methodologies and five projects: a staged framework for website motion from loading through interaction, and an eleven-point method for analysing a site. Cases include the Kaohsiung Music Center, a 25th-anniversary online exhibition for Game Citadel, and the Taiwan Design Research Institute site.
- Community
- Web design
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- Interactive web design meetup: KIVΛMKII on sci-fi sound · The same interactive web design meetup series (Curatorial theme)
- Interactive web design meetup: digital landing · The same interactive web design meetup series (Curatorial theme)
Interactive web design meetup: digital landing
A meetup session with Gu Jianhua, creative director of Black Hole Creative Studio, on moving from 3D web effects to virtual exhibition spaces. He addresses the gap between designers and engineers, shows around twelve projects spanning installations, online exhibitions and NFT showcases, and introduces Virsody, a Web3 virtual curation platform built in 2022.
- Community
- Online exhibition
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- Interactive web design meetup: Blockstudio on building online · The same interactive web design meetup series (Curatorial theme)
open-processing-backup
A JavaScript repository on GitHub for backing up work hosted on OpenProcessing. The repository carries no description field; it was created on 12 November 2022 and last pushed the following day.
- Open source
- Archiving
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CreativeCoding.in writing award — interactive art category
One of the results announcements for the CreativeCoding.in writing award. In the interactive art category, a merit award went to Lo Wei-ting for a p5.js learning-notes piece on tearing open a gap in time. The entry documents shader techniques in p5.js combining a water-flow effect with a distortion filter, alongside a reflective account of the author's learning.
- Open call
- Community
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HexSchool livestream: skills for an interactive web engineer
A livestream in HexSchool's 大神來六角 series, hosted by Ray with Che-Yu Wu as speaker. It maps out the skills an interactive web engineer needs: CSS and visual design, animation tooling such as jQuery, Framer Motion and ScrollMagic, Canvas and WebGL, 3D on the web with Three.js and Babylon.js, audio handling and machine learning, plus creative coding and hardware integration.
- Talk
- Front-end
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Generative charity wallpapers with McDonald's
An account of a generative charity wallpaper project with McDonald's Taiwan. The wallpapers sit on a phone lock screen and can be scanned to donate to Ronald McDonald House. Three works were made: hearts formed by particle physics expanding into a universe, balloons carrying hearts across a pandemic-era city, and a mathematically generated roller-coaster track. The artist wrote rules and let the computer generate many variants, the hard part being that every variant had to look good, which required custom automation for different screen sizes.
- Commission
- Charity
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p5.js interactive art — a beginner workshop in two parts
A two-part write-up of a workshop. Part one covers what creative coding is, introduces p5.js as a JavaScript-based visual programming tool, and demonstrates colour, shape and variables, showing how OpenProcessing lets someone without an engineering background make interactive visuals; part two turns to generative art. The material comes from a course delivered for C-LAB in October 2021 and later documented as roughly two hours of instruction.
- Teaching
- p5.js
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Soul Fish — the creation story
The artist's account of making Soul Fish. Deep-sea creatures with transparent, luminous bodies were the starting point; the form is built from mathematical wave functions, Perlin noise and physics simulation, with fins, whiskers and bones driven by randomised parameters. Each fish also generates its own melodic line from sampled piano, so the piece keeps composing itself. Viewers can steer swimming speed and direction and pop bubbles with a click, each triggering a sound. The article records that the edition of 400 fully minted on 16 January 2023 and that the work has been shown at Taipei 101 and projected onto public architecture.
- Generative art
- Generative music
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- Soul Fish — the making of · The article links directly to the creation story (Documented connection)
230206 MEMEGINEERING
A release on Manifold whose claim page is titled 230206 Memegineering, matching the date prefix in the title. The page loads its content client-side and only the title could be read when fetched, so the edition size and description are not asserted here.
- Memes
- On-chain release
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- The Hamily WAGMI — The Memes by 6529, Season 2 Card 2 · The same meme line (Curatorial theme)
The Soul Interactive Collection
An interactive work documented on the artist's own site. A vast eye hangs in darkness, its pupil glowing in fluorescent colours and gradients, drawing on Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project from 2003 and on the brand visuals of the 2022 Solana Breakpoint conference. The piece began at that conference, out of a moment of self-doubt about his place in the field. The mouse moves the work, a click enables sound, and in physical form it is projected five to ten metres across.
- Interactive
- Cosmos
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Creative Coding Taiwan meetup #5 — AI tools and on-chain generative art
The fifth community meetup, in two parts. Che-Yu Wu discusses how AI tools reshape creative workflow, arguing that Midjourney and ChatGPT work as multiplication rather than replacement and should amplify what a maker is already good at. Huang Xin distinguishes generative art from AI art, treating generative art as a way of making through code with NFTs verifying uniqueness and ownership, and compares the curated model of Art Blocks with the open model of fxhash on Tezos.
- Community
- AI tools
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The Hamily WAGMI — The Memes by 6529, Season 2 Card 2
An ERC1155 work in The Memes by 6529, listed on OpenSea with a total supply of 690. An eight-by-ten grid of robot characters called hams shake, and the shaking propagates as waves across the grid; the words The Hamily and WAGMI travel around the edges, hovering reveals letters, and keyboard shortcuts download an image or open The Hamily site. The card is also tied to an episode over use of Wu's code, after which past and future royalties were assigned to him.
- Memes
- Community
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- 230206 MEMEGINEERING · The same meme line (Curatorial theme)
Soul Fish — the making of
A technical account of building Soul Fish, laid out as successive iterations from an early sine-wave outline through to shader work, covering blending modes, the generative music implementation and the deployment process on fxhash. The through-line is how rational programming is made to produce a sense of life.
- Process
- Shaders
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- Soul Fish — the creation story · The article links directly to the creation story (Documented connection)
gpt4-cli
A Python repository on GitHub whose name points to a command-line tool for GPT-4. It carries no description field; it was created on 18 March 2023 and last pushed the following day.
- Open source
- CLI
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Space-Time Weaving Series
A series released on Foundation. The platform has since shut down and the collection page returns 404 with an offline notice, so this entry records only the series name and the date without describing the work. A deployer record for a contract named Space-Time Weaving Series by Che-Yu Wu remains visible on chain.
- Series
- Time
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CC! Let Me Tell You! S1EP0 pilot
The pilot episode of the studio's own podcast, led by Che-Yu Wu, founder of Monoame. It ranges over a trip to Japan, an idea for generative ramen, metalwork, encounters with Takawo and Kevin Abosch, and the Checks project, extending into smart contracts, conceptual art and the philosophy of quantum mechanics. The episode runs about thirty minutes.
- Podcast
- Studio talk
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- CC! Let Me Tell You! S1EP1 — an engineer's route into art · The same self-produced season (Curatorial theme)
CC! Let Me Tell You! S1EP1 — an engineer's route into art
Episode one, hosted by Leona with the studio's founder and featuring Che-Yu Wu. It asks what creative coding actually is and traces his own way into it, covering the obstacles he hit, cases he finds interesting, the gap in resources between Taiwan and abroad, advice for people stuck at the programming barrier, and paths for learning and work. Distributed on FirstStory, Spotify, KKBOX, Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and SoundOn.
- Podcast
- Creative coding
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- CC! Let Me Tell You! S1EP0 pilot · The same self-produced season (Curatorial theme)
- CC! Let Me Tell You! S1EP2 — inside interactive design · The same self-produced season (Curatorial theme)
CC! Let Me Tell You! S1EP2 — inside interactive design
Episode two covers trends in interactive design, its range of applications and the difficulties of running a studio. It takes in his reasons for founding the studio, the early business problems, notable Taiwanese interactive design teams and projects, AR, VR, MR and XR technologies, commercial applications, and the thinking behind the name Monoame.
- Podcast
- Industry
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- CC! Let Me Tell You! S1EP1 — an engineer's route into art · The same self-produced season (Curatorial theme)
- CC! Let Me Tell You! S1EP3 — NFTs and art · The same self-produced season (Curatorial theme)
ab-project-template
A JavaScript repository on GitHub serving as a project starter template. It carries no description field, and both its creation and its last push fall on 13 June 2023.
- Open source
- Template
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CC! Let Me Tell You! S1EP3 — NFTs and art
Episode three looks at the relationship between NFTs and visual art and their effect on making and on the digital creative industry, covering the fundamentals, digital distortion, how the market behaves, and intellectual property questions in the space.
- Podcast
- NFT
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- CC! Let Me Tell You! S1EP2 — inside interactive design · The same self-produced season (Curatorial theme)
- CC! Let Me Tell You! S1EP4 — with Huang Xin · The same self-produced season (Curatorial theme)
Taipei Generative Onsite: Archipelago Hashed 2023 — a review
A review of Taipei Generative Onsite: Archipelago Hashed 2023 at Fongkai Art Museum, written by the CreativeCoding.in editor. Organised by Volume DAO, a Taiwanese collective working on Tezos, the show places generative art inside a physical museum. The article describes four zones: solo presentations, a thematic section on recursion, an interpretive section comparing digital and physical craft, and an interactive area where visitors co-generate work through algorithmic frameworks on their phones.
- Review
- Generative art
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CC! Let Me Tell You! S1EP4 — with Huang Xin
Episode four, hosted by Che-Yu Wu with digital artist Huang Xin, who has worked in interactive art for over a decade, on making, appreciation and teaching. It covers how he entered the field, what makes generative art distinctive, why he teaches, the survival paths open to Taiwanese digital artists, and how fxhash changed the landscape.
- Podcast
- Conversation
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- CC! Let Me Tell You! S1EP3 — NFTs and art · The same self-produced season (Curatorial theme)
Unbound: Ecology in the Age of Machines
A group exhibition at Unit, Mayfair in London, running 9 August to 5 September 2023 with seven artists. It addresses the relationship between biological and technological entities, holding that ecology is not only the study of where we find ourselves but of everything that surrounds us and lets us live. Che-Yu Wu shows the Ecological Fusion series, numbered variants using particle and cellular communication simulations to ask how technological and biological time converge. The show presents on-chain works alongside physical prints.
- Group show
- Ecology