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01 / Selected reading & viewing
Taiwan Plus (International) · 2024-06-21Art Attack — Che-Yu Wu
International documentary: How a Taiwanese artist uses code to create life.
Watch the documentary ↗︎Cool Is Not the Same as Memorable: Creating the Most Human Experience in the AI Era — An Interview with New Media Artist Che-Yu Wu
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The Human Soul of AI-Generated Art
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02 / Complete archive
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202621 records
Waste Turned into Art: Computation Reveals a City's Carbon Footprint
A Taoyuan cable news reporter follows the head of the Environmental Protection Bureau through TAOYUAN RE:CODE and describes Woven Land, Woven River as 35 years of Taiwan's emission data, industrial emissions and Taoyuan's reduction policies, computed in real time into a digital work that never stops changing.
Original Chinese title
廢棄物變藝術 科技演算看見城市碳足跡
Article & video
TAOYUAN RE:CODE Closes on 11 October as the Taoyuan Environmental Protection Bureau Opens an Online Exhibition Room
Ahead of the closing, the Taoyuan Environmental Protection Bureau opened an ARTOGO online exhibition room for TAOYUAN RE:CODE, and its release again described Che-Yu Wu's ten-metre ring of real-time generative art, Woven Land, Woven River: data turned into flowing ripples and landscape, with the sustainable actions visitors enter on site becoming part of the work's computation. Several other outlets ran it the same day.
Original Chinese title
台灣設計展《桃園演算室》10/11將閉幕 桃園環保局推線上展間
Articles
As the Taiwan Design Expo Counts Down, Life Around Water Looks Again at Everyday Water Through Image and Algorithmic Art
Li Pao describes the entrance zone of Life Around Water as two works: Whitelight Motion looks at the water of a whole city, and on the other side Che-Yu Wu's Cymatics of Life turns visitors' answers about everyday water use into a Water Ripple Mandala shown at once on the phone and on the curved projection wall, writing people's habits straight into the image.
Original Chinese title
台灣設計展倒數 《水之道》用影像與演算藝術重看日常用水
Articles
Life Around Water at the Taiwan Design Expo 2026 Shows Taoyuan's Water Coming Back into Use
Three days before the expo closed, the Taoyuan Department of Water Resources issued its own release on Life Around Water, describing an entrance of flowing images that trace water's journey and Che-Yu Wu's Cymatics of Life, which generates a Water Ripple Mandala live for each visitor. Taoyuan News and Taiwan Hot News ran it the same day.
Original Chinese title
2026台灣設計展桃園「水之道」 展現水資源循環新生活
Articles
Life Around Water Opens at the Taiwan Design Expo 2026: From Water Governance to Image, Sound and Algorithmic Art
The design site HeyShow runs the curators' introduction to Life Around Water, whose closing section covers Che-Yu Wu's Cymatics of Life: built on the idea of cymatics, each visitor's answers become parameters and frequencies computed live into a Water Ripple Mandala of their own, and every half hour the curved screen stages a timed algorithmic performance.
Original Chinese title
2026台灣設計展《水之道 Life Around Water》登場 從水務治理到影像、聲音與演算藝術，走進桃園與水共生的日常
Articles
Taoyuan Knows Water: How Reclaimed Water Becomes a Grain of Rice at Life Around Water, Taiwan Design Expo 2026
Bella's guide to the Life Around Water zone describes Che-Yu Wu's Cymatics of Life: visitors scan a QR code and answer five questions about everyday water use, and the answers become parameters and frequencies that grow a Water Ripple Mandala of their own, on the phone and on a curved screen about twelve metres wide. Every half hour the wall runs a timed performance of about a minute.
Original Chinese title
桃園其實很懂水！2026台灣設計展《水之道》看再生水如何變成一粒米
Articles
Life Around Water at the Taiwan Design Expo 2026: Following a Drop of Water Through Taoyuan
Smile Taiwan's events column runs an introduction to Life Around Water, credited to the Taoyuan Department of Water Resources. Its closing section covers Che-Yu Wu's Cymatics of Life: each visitor's answers become a different frequency, computed live into a Water Ripple Mandala of their own, and everyone's participation gathers into a changing waterscape.
Original Chinese title
2026台灣設計展《水之道》 體驗一滴水的永續之旅！走進桃園與水共生的日常
Articles
TAOYUAN RE:CODE Passes Ten Thousand Visitors in Its First Week: Pull to Feel the Weight of Everyday Carbon
Truemii, the culture section of China Times, reports from TAOYUAN RE:CODE as interactions pass ten thousand in the first week. Visitors enter the sustainable actions they are willing to take through a QR code, and each response flows in real time into Che-Yu Wu's ten-metre ring of real-time generative art, Woven Land, Woven River: every contribution becomes part of the work.
Original Chinese title
桃園演算室開展一周破萬人次「拉一下」感受日常碳排差異
Articles
After This Exhibition, What Would You Delete? From Field Research to a Sensory Translation of Digital Net Zero — Documentary on TAOYUAN RE:CODE
A documentary on TAOYUAN RE:CODE released by the Taoyuan Department of Environmental Protection. Che-Yu Wu talks about Woven Land, Woven River: terrain, cities and people are already a kind of weaving, and with this much carbon the pattern woven comes out intricate and beautiful, showing a civilisation's abundance and the cost behind it.
Original Chinese title
走出這場展覽後，你願意刪掉什麼？｜從田野調查到數位淨零的感官轉譯 -《桃園演算室 TAOYUAN RE:CODE》策展紀實
Film & video
Life Around Water Opens at the Taiwan Design Expo 2026: From Water Governance to Image, Sound and Algorithmic Art
An introduction to the Department of Water Resources' Life Around Water zone, placed by the Taoyuan City Government in Parenting, describing Che-Yu Wu's Cymatics of Life: visitors answer questions about water, the answers become frequencies, and each person's own Water Ripple Mandala is computed live onto the curved screen, which stages a timed algorithmic performance every half hour.
Original Chinese title
2026台灣設計展《水之道 Life Around Water》登場 從水務治理到影像、聲音與演算藝術，走進桃園與水共生的日常
Articles
The Last Input: When a World Is Born, Are You There?
A third-season column on the Ministry of Culture’s cultural technology platform. Using The Last Input, a residency performance at C-LAB’s Taiwan Sound Lab with IRCAM, it looks at a world computed in real time, a 49.4-channel sound field, and visual audio: sound that grows out of a simulated world.
Original Chinese title
The Last Input 最後一次輸入：當一個世界誕生，你在場嗎？
Articles
Does Scrolling Have a Carbon Weight? TAOYUAN RE:CODE at the Taiwan Design Expo 2026: A Ten-Metre Live-Generated Landscape and a Recycled-Diaper Chandelier
Dfun Magazine's exhibition report on the Environmental Protection Bureau's TAOYUAN RE:CODE pavilion; its dynamic computing section introduces Che-Yu Wu's real-time generative work Woven Land, Woven River, where emission structures, net-zero policy and visitors' choices are computed along the ring screen into a landscape of rivers, ripples and ponds.
Original Chinese title
滑手機也有碳排重量？2026台灣設計展《桃園演算室》登場：10公尺即時生成地景、廢棄尿布再生吊燈重構淨零日常
Articles
As Coding Gets Faster, Artists Need More Time to Read
Episode 28 of AI Practicing, hosted by Tsao Hsiao-Yue of Taipei Tech. Che-Yu Wu starts with entering competitions as a teenager to earn a laptop, then talks about studying in New York, his two solo exhibitions at Taipei 101, going from disliking AI to building it into The Soul of Flowers and The Eternal Garden in a Bottle, and The Last Input in October.
Original Chinese title
寫程式愈來愈快，創作者反而更需要花時間讀書
Article & video
TAOYUAN RE:CODE at the Taiwan Design Expo 2026 Imagines a Net-Zero City
An ETtoday reporter visits the Environmental Protection Bureau's TAOYUAN RE:CODE pavilion and, in its dynamic computing zone, Che-Yu Wu's real-time generative work Woven Land, Woven River.
Original Chinese title
2026台灣設計展《桃園演算室》展現淨零城市想像
Articles
Life Is a Shape That Can Be Described by Mathematics — Algorithmic Artist Che-Yu Wu
From the cell simulator he wrote in high school and the L-systems of his New York years to Controlled Chaos, Woven Land, Woven River and Taiwan.md, ending with the question a friend asked him years ago: without code, who is Che-Yu Wu?
Original Chinese title
生命，是可以被數學描述的形狀——演算藝術家吳哲宇
Articles
Used Diapers Turned into a Pendant Lamp: TAOYUAN RE:CODE Stretches What a Circular Economy Can Look Like
The travel site ShareLife introduces the Environmental Protection Bureau's TAOYUAN RE:CODE pavilion and, in its dynamic computing zone, Che-Yu Wu's real-time generative work Woven Land, Woven River.
Original Chinese title
丟掉的尿布變吊燈？《桃園演算室》打破循環經濟想像極限
Articles
Taiwan Design Expo 2026 Opens: An Editor Walks Through the Two Main Zones and Satellite Venues
Shopping Design's editor walks through the Taiwan Design Expo and, in the Environmental Protection Bureau's TAOYUAN RE:CODE pavilion, describes Woven Land, Woven River as a totem wall that weaves in each visitor's choice as it happens.
Original Chinese title
2026 台灣設計展「桃園流」9/24 登場！編輯開箱沉浸體驗、科技轉譯等 2 大主展區與衛星展區亮點
Articles
Encoding a Contemporary Landscape: TAOYUAN RE:CODE at the Taiwan Design Expo 2026, Between Data and Circular Materials
A feature on the TAOYUAN RE:CODE pavilion published by the Taoyuan Environmental Protection Bureau in MOT TIMES, describing the data behind Che-Yu Wu's real-time generative work Woven Land, Woven River in four scales, with photographs from the site.
Original Chinese title
編碼當代地景的永續實驗：2026 台灣設計展《桃園演算室》，在數據與循環材質中尋找人與環境的平衡
Articles
Carbon Really Has Weight: 24 Interactive Stations at the Taiwan Design Expo Put It on the Scale
A report on the Environmental Protection Bureau's TAOYUAN RE:CODE pavilion at the Taiwan Design Expo, introducing Che-Yu Wu's real-time generative work Woven Land, Woven River in its dynamic computing zone; several other Taiwanese outlets ran the story the same day.
Original Chinese title
碳排真的「有重量」！台灣設計展24組互動設施「秤」給你看
Articles
Cool Is Not the Same as Memorable: Creating the Most Human Experience in the AI Era — An Interview with New Media Artist Che-Yu Wu
As AI lowers the technical barriers to creation, what makes an experience memorable? Could less attachment to outcomes allow a work to go deeper and farther?
Original Chinese title
酷，不等於被記住！AI 時代，如何創造「最有人類質感的體驗」──專訪新媒體藝術家吳哲宇
Articles
The Great Equation: Can Code Grow a Soul?
A column on the Ministry of Culture’s cultural technology platform. Looking back from the Taipei 101 solo exhibition at questions of mechanisms, life and the soul of algorithms.
Original Chinese title
萬物公式：程式碼能不能長出靈魂？
Articles
20252 records
The Human Soul of AI-Generated Art
The most complete public account of the artist’s life: from the collapse of FTX to a renewal through absurdism, and from watchmaker to AI collaboration.
Original Chinese title
AI 生成藝術的靈魂在人類
Article & video
LG Transparent OLED and Interactive Art
UDN reports on the collaboration between LG transparent OLED and Che-Yu Wu’s work.
Original Chinese title
LG × 永恆花境 科技藝術聯名
Articles
20247 records
Che-Yu Wu: Creating Eternal Art with Code
Mandarin Daily News interviews an artist who turns code into a paintbrush.
Original Chinese title
吳哲宇 用程式創作永恆藝術
Articles
Art Attack — Che-Yu Wu
International documentary: How a Taiwanese artist uses code to create life.
Source language: English
Film & video
1,000 Days of NYCU
An official NYCU documentary featuring Che-Yu Wu’s reflections on creation and teaching.
Original Chinese title
陽明交大 1000 天
Film & video
akaRadio EP18: A Generative Art Special
What is generative art? How algorithms become a language for creation.
Original Chinese title
akaRadio EP18 — 生成式藝術創作特輯
Audio interviews
Creating Eternal Life and Emotion in a Digital World
What is generative art? A self-examination by an artist who uses code as a paintbrush.
Original Chinese title
在數位世界創造永恆的生命與情感
Audio interviews
Science Hall of Fame: Is Art Related to Mathematics?
Creating art with mathematics and code: an exploration of aesthetics from fractals to particle systems.
Original Chinese title
科普名人堂 — 藝術與數學有關係嗎？
Film & video
A Taiwanese NFT Talent, Featuring Che-Yu Wu
From generative art to NFTs: a creative journey and a conversation about why Taiwanese artists can shine internationally.
Original Chinese title
NFT 臺灣之光 ft. 吳哲宇
Audio interviews
20233 records
SoulFish at the Yilan Festival
ELLE introduces the Yilan festival and the exhibited work SoulFish.
Original Chinese title
靈魂魚 × 宜蘭映像節
Articles
Creating Life with Algorithms
A conversation with Porsche about how Che-Yu Wu moves beyond cold technology to generate digital worlds with warmth through code.
Original Chinese title
用演算法創造生命
Articles
The Great Equation Solo Exhibition at Taipei 101
CNA reports on Che-Yu Wu’s The Great Equation exhibition at Taipei 101.
Original Chinese title
萬物公式個展 — 台北101
Articles
20222 records
Algorithmic Bliss
Feature story on generative art practice and philosophy.
Source language: Chinese & English
Articles
Why Art-Focused NFTs Are More Sought After
Why might NFTs focused on art gain value by resisting market trends and profile-picture projects?
Original Chinese title
純創作的 NFT 更搶手
Audio interviews
20212 records
A Taiwanese Talent Makes His Way in New York
From electrical engineering at NCTU to new media art at NYU: a Taiwanese engineer’s transition across disciplines.
Original Chinese title
闖進紐約的台灣之光
Articles
Art Blocks — After Dinner Mints Ep29
English interview: Generative art philosophy, Electriz, and the Art Blocks ecosystem.
Source language: English
Film & video
20201 records
The Spark Between Programming and Interaction Design
A conversation about freelancing, starting a business, and crossing disciplines from electrical engineering at NCTU to NYU.
Original Chinese title
程式語言與互動設計的火花
Audio interviews
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