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A year in the making

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2023-09-09 — 2024-09-09
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Unit London lists the run as 9 Aug to 5 Sep 2023; the record is filed under the closing month.Past event record

Unbound: Ecology in the Age of Machines

A group exhibition at Unit London in Mayfair, whose curatorial frame draws on eco-feminist theory to look at relations between biological and technological entities, with NFTs and physical prints on show. The page lists seven artists, Che-Yu Wu among them.

  • Group exhibition
  • Ecology
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Date the recording was published. The page titles the workshop Digital Cloud Chamber.Published

Digital Cloud Chamber — a workshop at Processing Community Day Taiwan

A workshop at the 2023 Processing Community Day Taiwan, organised by SpOnAcT under the theme Code As Acts. The video description explains that the session simulates particle physics in p5.js, drawing trajectories by adjusting speed, force fields, electrode properties and spatial settings, and shares how that idea grew into the works Weaving Spacetime and variants of Electriz. Chapters also cover a TouchDesigner demonstration, the Hundred Peaks and Island Impressions series, uses of sine, cosine and noise, and a Q&A.

  • Workshop
  • Particle systems
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Opening date listed on the exhibition page.Past event record

Soul Fish at the NYCU Arts Festival

Part of the NYCU Arts Festival exhibition on repetition, difference and the posthuman, running 21 September to 24 October 2023 in the basement of the Hao Ran Library. The exhibition page lists Che-Yu Wu's Soul Fish.

  • Generative art
  • Exhibition
Soul Fish artwork frame
MonoLab / exhibition record
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MONOLAB and the video description both give the run as 4 to 16 Oct 2023. CNA published a preview on 2 Oct, and the video credits list a press conference photographer, but no press conference date appears on either page.Past event record

The Great Equation — A Digital Life Journey

A solo exhibition at AMBI SPACE ONE on the fifth floor of Taipei 101. Press coverage describes three chapters, inorganic, organic and living, across thirteen generative sequences running about twenty-four minutes, moving from cosmic void to mountains and ocean. The run included standing screenings and performance sessions, the solo and duo slots improvised live with the electronic musician KIVΛMKII. Supervised by the Ministry of Culture, organised by MoYu Interactive Design and Co-Innovation Fusion, curated by Shao-Yun Kuo, with Yu Chen as technical and visual director.

  • Solo exhibition
  • Live performance
The Great Equation installed at AMBI SPACE ONE
MonoLab / exhibition record
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Month only; the source page gave no run dates at the time of cataloguing.Artist record

SPARKLES — ONBD x SuperRare Space

SPARKLES, an online show curated by ONBD in its SuperRare Space. The gallery page returned a 404 at the time of cataloguing and the remaining ONBD page shows only account details with no exhibition content, so only the title, the platform and the month are kept here.

  • Online exhibition
  • NFT
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Publication date of the article.Published

CNA on the opening of The Great Equation

A preview report from CNA. It notes that the solo exhibition The Great Equation: A Journey Through Digital Life Evolution opens on 4 October, turning the venue into a changing experience as he takes apart and reassembles his Digital Life series with live improvisation across classical and electronic music. The article also records a donation of five hundred tickets to university students by the chairman of Co-Innovation Fusion.

  • Press
  • Solo exhibition
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Publication date of the article.Published

Liberty Times on The Great Equation

An exhibition report in the Liberty Times. It describes an immersive presentation of thirteen generative works in three chapters, inorganic, organic and living, with thirteen sequences travelling from cosmic void through mountains to the deep sea with synchronised sound, running about twenty-four minutes from 4 to 16 October. The piece quotes him on pursuing the limits of romance and rationality.

  • Press
  • Solo exhibition
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Publication date as listed on the page, 4 Oct 2023.Published

BlockTempo on The Great Equation

An interview-led report on BlockTempo. It introduces the exhibition’s three chapters, inorganic, organic and living, visualising evolution from cosmic particles to complex life, traces his move from programmer to artist, and covers his view that NFTs make digital art immutable while smart contracts keep work and collector in contact, citing his Pochi series as work that keeps evolving after release.

  • Press
  • NFT
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The page shows no publication date; 27 Oct 2023 is carried over from the record supplied at cataloguing.Published

GQ Taiwan — Inspired by Shade Green Metallic

A GQ Taiwan feature made with Porsche. It opens on his reading of Shade Green Metallic, a colour that looks grey at first and lets green surface over time, which he connects to the way stacked rules and code eventually produce something alive. The article also covers his shift from electrical engineering at NCTU to integrated digital media in New York, the theft of his Strange Robots work and the international attention that followed, his view of the upside and risk for brands issuing NFTs, and his exhibitions Chaos Lab in 2022 and The Great Equation.

  • Press
  • Brand collaboration
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StreetVoice lists the publication date as 19 Nov 2023 while the title prefix 231019 refers to a different day. It stands at the start of that year’s run of piano pieces.Published

231019 Words

A release on StreetVoice tagged as experimental. The page carries a single line by the artist about reclaiming a faith in music and its everyday practice, where everything begins with words. No lyrics are provided.

  • Music
  • Piano
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StreetVoice lists the publication date as 19 Nov 2023 while the title prefix 231110 refers to a different day.Published

231110 Stray Birds 288, 223, 278

A release on StreetVoice tagged as soundtrack and new age. The page points to Tagore’s Stray Birds, and the three numbers after the title refer to pieces in that collection. No further text and no lyrics are provided.

  • Music
  • Poetry
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The work page is marked 231121, recorded here as 21 Nov 2023.Published

Urban Contour with Lexus

A cover commission for the hundredth issue of Lexus Amazing Life, themed Login to the Future Next Generation. The work page frames it as a three-way dialogue between cars, people and the future, using contours and visual language to picture a future still taking shape, and describes material forms in the city as carriers of aspirations not yet defined.

  • Brand collaboration
  • City
A frame from Urban Contour
Che-Yu Wu / site image
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Press coverage gives the run as 23 Dec 2023 to 23 Jan 2024; the record is filed under the opening month. The work page itself carries no dates.Past event record

Soul Fish at the Yilan DIGI-FI Festival

Soul Fish was shown at the 2023 DIGI-FI festival organised by the Yilan County Government, at the Chung Hsing Cultural and Creative Park. His work and Ke-Chun Wu’s Zendo made up the second chapter of the exhibition, a forest of paper and light, and the edition introduced 5G transmission for real-time generation. His own page describes tracing the contours of soul fish with the fine brushwork of algorithms, fish at once vivid and ethereal in a fictional ocean.

  • Interactive installation
  • Festival
Soul Fish at the Yilan DIGI-FI festival
Che-Yu Wu / site image
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Month only; the list page shows no explicit publication date.Published

TAIWAN DESIGN BEST 100 — Concept Exhibition of the Year

The annual TAIWAN DESIGN BEST 100 list published by Shopping Design. The Great Equation: A Digital Life Evolution Journey was selected in the concept exhibition and performance of the year category, listed with the line that computing the origin of all things makes every moment newly born.

  • Award
  • Solo exhibition
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Event date as listed on the page, 15 Dec 2023.Past event record

A talk at the BEST 100 annual lecture party

A reader event held by Shopping Design for its BEST 100 list, arranged in six thematic chapters. Speakers included Joe Fang, Manbo Key, Wen-Hao Chao, Ming-Chang Huang, Tai-Yun Shih and Kuan-Chieh Peng of the MEDIAN, and Che-Yu Wu. The event page frames his talk around where the drive to keep going comes from.

  • Talk
  • Design community
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Publication date as listed on the page, 21 Dec 2023.Published

Vogue on the 2023 DIGI-FI festival

An exhibition guide in Vogue Taiwan. It gives the run as 23 Dec 2023 to 23 Jan 2024 at the Chung Hsing park in Yilan, with six works and a large projection-mapped wall across four narrative chapters. The second zone describes his Soul Fish leading visitors through forests made of light, computed in real time over 5G.

  • Press
  • Festival
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Publication date as listed on StreetVoice; the title prefix 231225 refers to the same day.Published

231225 Overture to the Snow Verses

A release on StreetVoice tagged as soundtrack and new age. The page carries one line about a quiet white realm and footprints sunk into it. No lyrics are provided.

  • Music
  • Piano
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Publication date as listed on the page, 27 Dec 2023.Published

ELLE on the 2023 Yilan DIGI-FI festival

An exhibition guide in ELLE. It notes the seventh edition of the festival, organised by the Yilan County Government, introducing 5G applications and inviting artists from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan across four narrative chapters. The second chapter presents his interactive work Soul Fish, describing algorithmic brushwork tracing its contours. The article lists the run as 23 Dec 2023 to 23 Jan 2024 at the Chung Hsing Cultural and Creative Park.

  • Press
  • Festival
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Year only. The class ran in the second semester of academic year 112, in the first half of 2024, and the page gives no start date. The Chinese course title follows the record supplied at cataloguing and differs from the name used on GitHub.Past event record

Generative Interactive Art and Systems Design — NYCU

A course at the Institute of Applied Arts, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, in the second semester of academic year 112, course number 534417. The university syllabus page returned only its title at the time of cataloguing, so no outline details are recorded. The public repository for the same class on GitHub names it Generative Computational Art Implementation.

  • Teaching
  • Generative art
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Publication date as listed on the page, 1 Jan 2024.Published

Taiwan’s 30 most influential people in blockchain

BlockTempo’s annual list, split into industry leaders and community KOLs, with each person invited to give market predictions and Web3 observations for 2024. He appears among the industry leaders, listed as founder of MoYu Design, with a note that his work takes the algorithm as its soul and joins engineering to art.

  • List
  • Web3
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Publication date as listed on StreetVoice; the title prefix 240102 refers to the same day.Published

240102 Sea of People

A release on StreetVoice tagged as soundtrack and new age. The text describes gathering oddly shaped stones along an endless shore, arms unable to hold so much time, and finally turning to scatter them all into the sea. No lyrics are provided.

  • Music
  • Sea
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fxhash has shut down; the release date and edition count follow his own NFT catalogue. That catalogue does not mention Lexus, so the link between the two records is thematic.Published

Urban Contour on fxhash

A generative release of 114 editions on fxhash. His NFT catalogue describes it as a generative Impressionist program piece that builds a city’s collective subconscious, where many fragments resemble one’s own surroundings and abstract lines and structures connect each person’s memories.

  • NFT
  • Generative art
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Release date as listed on Apple Podcasts.Published

Turn! Dream Uncle EP112

Episode 112 of the podcast Turn! Dream Uncle. The page notes his move from electrical engineering at NCTU into generative art, and how the theft of his work became the moment he was seen. He discusses the algorithm rather than the final image as the soul of generative art, and how collecting digital work ties a collector to an artist’s future. The episode closes on his plans for 2024 to deepen his personal brand and find collaborations where his practice and commercial interest line up.

  • Interview
  • NFT
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2 Mar 2024 is carried over from the record supplied at cataloguing; commit dates were not visible on the repository page when it was read.Published

genart-nycu-2024 course repository

A public course repository for a class at the Institute of Applied Arts, NYCU. The README links to the university syllabus and holds notes for the first two sessions, covering an introduction to generative art and foundations in mathematics, physics and signal processing, along with weekly assignment briefs and a shared submission folder. The main branch carries nine commits.

  • Open source
  • Teaching
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Date the video was published.Published

Kiss Science — Are art and mathematics related?

An episode in the Kiss Science channel’s science hall of fame series, featuring Che-Yu Wu as chief executive of MoYu Interactive Design. The description opens on two questions: what generative art is, and how one interacts with a digital object.

  • Science communication
  • Generative art
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Release date as listed on the episode page.Published

Shopping Design podcast — What is generative art?

An interview in the Shopping Design podcast’s designer series. The page describes him framing generative art as playing inside a chaotic system, discussing the cost of leaving a well-paid engineering job for practice, the moment his work drew unexpected attention after being shared on an NFT platform, differences in how generative art developed in the United States and Taiwan, and where he draws on literature and philosophy.

  • Interview
  • Generative art
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Filed under the opening month. The official page lists no artist roster and neither Che-Yu Wu nor Soul Fish appears on it; the participation itself comes from the record supplied at cataloguing.Past event record

Soul Fish Collabs at Personal Structures, Venice

Personal Structures is a biennial contemporary art exhibition organised by the European Cultural Centre in Venice and held during the Venice Art Biennale. The official page gives the seventh edition as 20 Apr to 24 Nov 2024 across Palazzo Mora, Palazzo Bembo and the Marinaressa Gardens. Soul Fish Collabs was shown there.

  • International exhibition
  • Soul Fish
The Soul Fish installation
Che-Yu Wu / site image
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Release date as listed on Apple Podcasts.Published

akaRadio EP18 — a generative art special

Episode 18 of the podcast akaRadio. The page notes his degree in electrical engineering at NCTU, his study of creative coding in New York, his move to put work on chain from 2020, and the solo exhibition The Great Equation made with Double Fusion in late 2023. The conversation covers his entry into new media art, recent work, observations from NFT.NYC, his teaching on the Hahow platform, and his view of where generative art is heading.

  • Interview
  • Teaching
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Publication date as listed on StreetVoice; the title prefix 240428 refers to the same day.Published

240428 Voice of Light

A release on StreetVoice tagged as soundtrack and new age. The page carries one bilingual line about seeking one’s own sound within the light. No lyrics are provided.

  • Music
  • Light
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Date the video was published. The description names no individual interviewees, so his appearance cannot be confirmed from the page text.Published

NYCU 1000 Days — Every Stride Toward SURPASS

A video published by National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, chronicling the thousand days after its merger through interviews with interdisciplinary faculty, students studying across campuses, alumni and the university president, on commuting distance, the scope for interdisciplinary growth and the uncertainty of the early years.

  • University
  • Video
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Month only; the source page gave no run dates at the time of cataloguing.Artist record

The Soul of Flowers at The Digital Art Mile, Basel

The Soul of Flowers was shown at The Digital Art Mile in Basel. The ArtMeta site returned only its site name at the time of cataloguing, with no dates, venue or artist list, so only the work, the event and the month are kept here.

  • International exhibition
  • The Soul of Flowers
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Date the video was published.Published

TaiwanPlus Art Attack — Algorithm as Paint Brush

A segment in TaiwanPlus’s Art Attack. The description says he brings his programming expertise into visual art, writing mathematical equations that generate ever-shifting images rather than dictating each stroke, and applies the same algorithmic approach to instrumental systems that evolve across sets of chords.

  • Press
  • Generative art
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Date of the outdoor premiere. The release was issued on 30 Jun 2024 and gives the television premiere as 9 pm on 4 Jul 2024, streaming simultaneously on PTS+.Past event record

Sacred Forest

Sacred Forest, a documentary co-produced by Taiwan’s PTS and Japan’s NHK for the broadcaster’s twenty-sixth anniversary, records the forests and communities along the Alishan Forest Railway in 8K with 22.2-channel sound. Gwei Lun-mei narrates, Kiyoshi Yoshida composed the score, and the Amami singer Ri’anna performs. An outdoor premiere was held on the concert hall plaza in Taipei on 29 June 2024, with the Wan Sheng Orchestra led by Che-Yi Li performing live alongside generative artist Che-Yu Wu; the PTS release records over two thousand people present.

  • Live performance
  • Documentary
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Month only; the speaker page carries no event date.Past event record

Art in the AI Era — Epoch Foundation

A speaker page for the Epoch Foundation’s Taiwan Symposium 2024. It gives his talk as Art in the AI Era: Exploring New Frontiers of Creativity, on how artists collaborate with AI, on algorithmic art, and on what art means once AI takes part in making it.

  • Talk
  • Artificial intelligence
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Filed under the month the Tokyo leg opened. The official home page names no individual works; the work title comes from the record supplied at cataloguing.Past event record

The Soul of Flowers on the dialog() Asia tour

The dialog() Asian Generative Art Exhibition 2024 links Tokyo, Taipei, Seoul and Beijing, gathering forty artists. The official page says the show opened in Tokyo in August 2024, travelled to Taipei in October and Seoul in November, and continued to Beijing afterwards. The Soul of Flowers was shown on this tour.

  • Touring exhibition
  • Generative art
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Month only; the source page was unavailable at the time of cataloguing and no run dates were obtained.Artist record

Algorithmic Verses Chapter Three — Eternal Floral Realm, Orchid

Algorithmic Verses Chapter Three: Eternal Floral Realm, Orchid was shown in the Tainan section of the Taiwan Cultural Expo. The expo’s Tainan page returned a 404 at the time of cataloguing, so only the work, the occasion and the month are kept here.

  • Algorithmic Verses
  • Cultural Expo
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Publication date as listed on StreetVoice; the title prefix 240817 refers to the same day.Published

240817 Summer Migration

A release on StreetVoice tagged as classical. The artist’s text speaks of a world changing fast, scattered memory and migration, mentions dinosaurs searching for the North Star, and asks whether eternity exists. No lyrics are provided.

  • Music
  • Migration
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