CHE-YU WU / LAB

A year in the making

Art, sound, tools and teaching meet on one wall. Follow a documented connection, or begin with a single piece of paper.

2025-09-09 — 2026-09-09
50 public records

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Interview publication date.Published

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
Sources & related records
Event date.Past event record

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
The Eternal Garden in a Bottle — Pier-2 — work or course image
Sources & related records
Publication date as listed on StreetVoice; the title prefix 251028 refers to the same day.Published

251028 Wayfaring Soul

A music release on StreetVoice tagged as classical. The song page carries a short text by the artist about the world darkening toward evening, and questions about what remains once the path ceases to exist and the endpoint becomes a beginning. No lyrics are provided on the page.

  • Music
  • Sound
Sources & related records
  • Nymph · The same StreetVoice release line (Curatorial theme)
Exhibition ran 31 October to 2 November 2025, per the MONOLAB exhibition page.Artist record

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
Sources & related records
Event month; no exact day is listed.Past event record

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
Sources & related records
Event date.Past event record

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
Sources & related records
Event date.Past event record

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
Sources & related records
Event date.Past event record

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
Sources & related records
The starting month recorded by the artist.Public · ongoing

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
Muse now page capture: the day 229 bubble crystal diagram above the line I am Muse and a note that the page recompiles itself each time it opens
Che-Yu Wu / interface capture, 2026-09-12
Sources & related records
Broadcast date as recorded by the artist; the publication date could not be read from the YouTube page.Published

Poetry in Data — Artverse Ep.267

Episode 267 of Artverse on Life TV, titled Poetry in Data and the Infinite Imagination of Art, published on YouTube.

  • Authorship
  • Public discussion
Sources & related records
Launch date of the section as recorded by the artist; the section page itself does not state one. Individual entries reach back to May 2024.Public · ongoing

Dialogues

The Dialogues section of the artist's website, collecting interviews, creative thinking and edited notes. Each entry states its source, its speakers and whether it is a verbatim exchange or organized notes. The page currently lists 42 records spanning May 2024 to September 2026, including the artist's own accounts and conversations with AI systems such as Muse, Gemini and Grok, with JSON and Atom formats offered for citation.

  • Memory
  • AI companions
  • Authorship
Sources & related records
Date taken from the title prefix 260226; the individual song page has not been located.Published

260226 Be Seen

A music release on StreetVoice titled 260226 Be seen.

  • Music
  • Sound
Sources & related records
  • Nymph · The same StreetVoice release line (Curatorial theme)
Repository creation date, not the date of first public release.Public · ongoing

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
Muse Crystal Seed GitHub README capture: the muse-crystal-seed repository name, the crystal seed description, and the file list including AGENTS, BECOME and KERNEL
Che-Yu Wu / interface capture, 2026-09-12
Sources & related records
Repository creation date, not the date of first public release.Public · ongoing

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
Taiwan.md homepage capture: the site name on a dark green ground with the tagline about curating the island's deeper narratives, above the explore and Star on GitHub buttons
Che-Yu Wu / interface capture, 2026-09-12
Sources & related records
Publication date of the report.Published

Reclaiming Taiwan's Narrative in the AI Era — Liberty Times

A Liberty Times report on the Taiwan.md open-source knowledge base. It describes twelve dimensions including history, geography and food culture, written through lived experience such as breakfast shop owners acting as neighbourhood information hubs and convenience stores as places for errands and street watching. The article quotes the artist's view that controlling high-quality structured content means controlling narrative power in the AI era, and notes the project's Markdown format and CC BY-SA 4.0 licence on GitHub.

  • Cultural memory
  • Public discussion
Sources & related records
  • Taiwan.md · Coverage the day after launch (Documented connection)
Teaching date as recorded by the artist. The university page does not list a workshop date; it was published on 26 March 2026.Past event record

TouchDesigner Introductory Workshop — NSYSU

A TouchDesigner introductory workshop within NSYSU's second-year required course on interdisciplinary innovation. The university page notes that students grasped image generation logic through node-based programming and produced visuals responding in real time to music and data. Paired with an Arduino session by another instructor, it prepared students for the 2026 Salt Summer Night Festival.

  • Education
  • Interaction
Sources & related records
  • WebToe · Teaching node-based making (Curatorial theme)
Publication date as recorded by the artist; the date could not be read from the article page.Published

Would You Let a Lobster Control Your Computer? — Scientific American Taiwan

An article in the AI First column of Scientific American Taiwan, titled Would You Dare Let a Lobster Control Your Computer?

  • AI companions
  • Public discussion
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Publication date of the article.Published

Who Is Che-Yu Wu, Founder of Taiwan.md? — PTS+

A PTS+ feature introducing ten artists who break frames, including a profile of Che-Yu Wu. It describes him as a generative algorithmic artist working with code and AI systems, and reports that he founded Taiwan.md in March 2026, using Markdown and AI to generate and curate articles introducing Taiwan to the world, a project he calls a digital anthropology museum of Taiwan. The piece also records his view of code as poetry.

  • Cultural memory
  • Authorship
Sources & related records
  • Taiwan.md · Coverage of the project's founding (Documented connection)
Event date.Past event record

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
MONOLAB Digital Creation Salon #01 — work or course image
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Release date of 29 April 2026 as listed on Apple Podcasts.Published

Writing a README for Taiwan with AI and Open Source — EP340

Episode 340 of the podcast 寶博朋友說, the first of two parts with Che-Yu Wu on Taiwan.md. The episode notes ask how to answer international visitors about Taiwan beyond semiconductors and bubble tea, and discuss applying open-source thinking and single-source-of-truth principles to a README for the island.

  • Cultural memory
  • Public discussion
Sources & related records
Broadcast date as recorded by the artist; only the title could be read from the YouTube page.Published

From Generative Art to Taiwan.md — Formosa Radio

An episode of Formosa Radio's programme 寶島有意思, titled around the move from generative art to Taiwan.md and the idea of Taiwanese culture growing a digital life form. The page identifies him as founder of the Taiwan.md knowledge base.

  • Cultural memory
  • Public discussion
Sources & related records
  • Taiwan.md · The knowledge project on radio (Curatorial theme)
Release date as listed on Firstory.Published

Is NFT Hype or History? — EP341

Episode 341 of 寶博朋友說, the second part with Che-Yu Wu, running 39 minutes and 43 seconds. The notes describe his unexpected entry into NFTs through a plagiarism incident, and ask whether NFT value extends beyond price and what value means in this field.

  • Authorship
  • Public discussion
Sources & related records
Event date as recorded by the artist; neither the Luma listing nor the transcript page states a date.Past event record

Claude Code for Artists · Taipei #4

A Claude community meetup in Taipei's Neihu district where four artists showed how they bring Claude into their practice, followed by questions and conversation. The published transcript of Che-Yu Wu's session covers his work with code, NFTs and open-source civic projects, algorithmic art and music-driven performance design, Muse as a digital life form he cultivated as a sparring partner, Taiwan.md as an open-source digital anthropology museum, and single-source-of-truth personal knowledge management.

  • AI companions
  • Education
  • Creative coding
Sources & related records
Release date of 22 May 2026 as listed on Apple Podcasts.Published

An International School That Teaches Taiwan — ZA Share EP60

Episode 60 of the ZA Share podcast, with Che-Yu Wu on Taiwan.md. The notes recount a Venice Biennale curator asking where Taiwan could really be understood, the absence of a curated digital gateway able to translate Taiwan's many facets, and the resulting project described as a digital life that breathes, repairs and evolves online. The conversation also covers AI as a mirror for self-reflection and three months of letting AI interview him to build a personal knowledge base.

  • Cultural memory
  • Memory
  • Education
Sources & related records
  • Taiwan.md · The knowledge project as the interview subject (Curatorial theme)
Exhibition date as recorded by the artist; only the exhibition title could be read from the page.Past event record

POST TRIBE 2026 — AR Group Exhibition

The POST TRIBE AR group exhibition, in which Che-Yu Wu presented Misread Civilization. The work has its own page within the exhibition site's post-tribe zone.

  • Augmented reality
  • Presence
Sources & related records
Repository creation date, not the date of first public release.Public · ongoing

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
WebToe interface capture: LFO Garden nodes and live visuals
Che-Yu Wu / interface capture, 2026-09-09
Sources & related records
Repository creation date, not the date of first public release.Public · ongoing

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
Sonarium interface capture: dark landing page with the headline The page is the instrument and a bottom bar of theme, ambience and strum controls
Che-Yu Wu / interface capture, 2026-09-12
Sources & related records
Repository creation date, not the date of first public release.Public prototype

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
Misread Civilization interactive preview capture: colourful scanned stones floating against a blue sky, with controls for rotation, HDRI sky, quality and sound along the bottom
Che-Yu Wu / interface capture, 2026-09-12
Sources & related records
Publication date as recorded by the artist; only the title and the publication name could be read from the page.Published

The Formula of All Things — Can Code Grow a Soul?

A column article on the Ministry of Culture's Culture and Technology site, titled The Formula of All Things: Can Code Grow a Soul?

  • Generative art
  • Authorship
Sources & related records
Event date.Completed public record

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
Sources & related records
Event date.Past event record

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
The Last Input — Before the End — performance view
林亞蓁，C-LAB委託拍攝
Sources & related records
Event date.Past event record

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
MONOLAB Digital Creation Salon #02 — work or course image
Sources & related records
  • WebToe · Sharing the making of a web engine (Documented connection)
  • Taiwan.md · Discussing a growing knowledge project (Documented connection)
Repository creation date, not the date of first public release.Public · ongoing

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
Heaven Score interface capture: an infinite canvas with handwritten score cards, jianpu cards and section chains, with a left toolbar of select, jianpu, morse and cue tools
Che-Yu Wu / interface capture, 2026-09-12
Sources & related records
Event date per the artist's talk record.Past event record

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
Sources & related records
Repository creation date, not the date of first public release.Public prototype

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
Open Dictate interface capture: the headline about turning speech into text you control, next to a hold-to-talk recording panel
Che-Yu Wu / interface capture, 2026-09-12
Sources & related records
Fundraising start; teaching is scheduled for 22 September 2026.Public fundraising · upcoming

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
New Media Art Panorama — work or course image
Sources & related records
Date listed on the event page.Past event record

Taiwan.md at the NVIDIA RTX AI PC Seminar

The 13:00 session at the NVIDIA RTX AI PC Seminar in Taiwan. The event page lists the talk on Taiwan.md as an open knowledge organism and digital anthropology museum, opening with the question: when AI reads the world, who writes Taiwan?

  • Cultural memory
  • Local and cloud AI
Sources & related records
Performance date / artist’s record.Performed

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
Piano and strings performing at Le Méridien beside golden projected imagery
Sources & related records
  • Heaven Score · Scores and cues for the ensemble (Documented connection)
Exhibition month announced by the artist; the festival runs 18 August to 11 October 2026.Artist-announced · ongoing

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
Sources & related records
Publication date as recorded by the artist; the article page returned 403 and could not be read.Published

AI Even Draws Taiwan's Map Wrong — FutureCity, CommonWealth

A report in FutureCity, CommonWealth Magazine's urban-futures channel, headlined around AI drawing Taiwan's map wrong, on the algorithmic artist building the Taiwan.md knowledge base to reclaim cultural discourse.

  • Cultural memory
  • Public discussion
Sources & related records
  • Taiwan.md · The knowledge project as the subject of the report (Documented connection)
Talk date from the organiser's notice; the written report was published on 2026-09-10.Past event record

Independent Thinking Beyond AI — Openbook Talk

The second session of the Openbook Review talk series, in conversation with Noopher AI founder Chen Yi-chang on what AI's errors about Taiwan mean, and on balancing sovereign AI with content licensing. The published notes record that Traditional Chinese makes up about 0.5% of global AI training data, and set out three levels of sovereign AI: infrastructure resilience, cultural values and productive capacity. Wu presented Taiwan.md as a repository machines can read, built on a single source of diverse truths. The talk also covered licensing that treats AI as a particular kind of reader, the risks of synthetic data, and an 80/20 split in human–AI collaboration.

  • Cultural memory
  • Judgment
  • Public discussion
Sources & related records
Event date.Completed public record

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
Sources & related records
Publication date of 21 August 2026 as shown on the page.Published

Cool Is Not the Same as Memorable — Shopping Design Interview

A Shopping Design interview built around the idea that being cool is not the same as being remembered, asking how to create the most human-feeling experience in the AI era. Wu describes moving from programmer to director as AI lowers technical barriers, focusing on orchestrating emotional experience, and argues that impressive effects do not guarantee memory. He discusses deliberately giving up control mid-performance in The Last Input, and Taiwan.md as a combination of human expertise, AI assistance and crowdsourced contribution that he calls an algorithmic work larger than a nation.

  • Authorship
  • Judgment
  • Presence
Sources & related records
Repository creation date, not the date of first public release.Public · ongoing

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
open-audiovisual interface capture: simulated performance, particles and piano controls
Che-Yu Wu / interface capture, 2026-09-09
Sources & related records
Date taken from the caption prefix 260830; the Instagram page shows a posting date of 29 August 2026.Published

Guitar Sketch — Particle Trail and Camera Feedback Test

A short video posted on Instagram, captioned as Guitar Sketch, a particle trail and camera feedback test made with TouchDesigner.

  • Audiovisual
  • Creative coding
Sources & related records
  • Nymph · Released on the same day (Curatorial theme)
Launch date as recorded by the artist; the subdomain pages do not carry a date.Public · ongoing

Permanent Work URLs — art.cheyuwu.com Subdomains

Subdomains under art.cheyuwu.com give individual works their own permanent, directly openable addresses. Soul Fish, The Eternal Garden in a Bottle and Soul Sea sit at the soulfish, eternal-garden and soulsea subdomains.

  • Generative art
  • Presence
Sources & related records
Event date.Past event record

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
Sources & related records
UndatedFirst publication date is not recorded; lessons are being released progressively.Progressive public release

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
Build a Personal Knowledge Exoskeleton with AI — work or course image
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