CHE-YU WU / STRATA 地層

Strata | 2001–2026: what each year left behind

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.

2026-01-01 — 2026-12-31
48 public records

Read the year downwards, one month at a time. The small tags under a card are its connections: open one to jump to the record it names.

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Still going on

Family treeHow 818 daily sketches grew out of one another46 families drawn as branching trees with thumbnails, 2018 to 2026

Complete records

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Newest first, older as you go down. Each record retains its date basis, public sources and connection labels.

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

Undated · Public · ongoing First publication date is not recorded; lessons are being released progressively.

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
Woven Land, Woven River — work image
Exhibition

· Public · ongoing Opening day; on view 24 September to 11 October.

Woven Land, Woven River — Taiwan Design Expo 2026

A real-time computed textile commissioned by the Taoyuan Environmental Protection Bureau, shown on a C-shaped ring of LED in zone A9, TAOYUAN RE:CODE, at the Taiwan Design Expo. The national greenhouse gas inventory, Taoyuan's terrain and waterways, industrial emissions, reduction policies and visitors' survey answers are woven, pick by pick, into one cloth.

  • Generative art
  • Data
A Visitor's Guide to the Taiwan Design Expo — Smile Taiwan — image from the article
PressSmile Taiwan / article image

· Published Publication date.

A Visitor's Guide to the Taiwan Design Expo — Smile Taiwan

Smile Taiwan's visitor guide mentions the work's interaction in its entry on zone A10: visitors can make their own water mandala online and see it on the big screen.

  • Exhibition coverage
An Editor's Walk Through the Taiwan Design Expo — Shopping Design — image from the article
PressShopping Design / article image

· Published Publication date.

An Editor's Walk Through the Taiwan Design Expo — Shopping Design

Shopping Design's editor walks through the Taiwan Design Expo and, in TAOYUAN RE:CODE, describes Woven Land, Woven River as a totem wall into which every visitor's choice is woven as it happens.

  • Exhibition coverage
Encoding a Contemporary Landscape — MOT TIMES — image from the article
PressMOT TIMES / article image

· Published Publication date.

Encoding a Contemporary Landscape — MOT TIMES

A feature on the TAOYUAN RE:CODE pavilion published by the Taoyuan Environmental Protection Bureau in the design magazine MOT TIMES, describing the data behind Woven Land, Woven River in four scales, with photographs from the site.

  • Exhibition coverage
Cymatics of Life — work image
Exhibition

· Public · ongoing Opening day; on view 24 September to 11 October.

Cymatics of Life — Taiwan Design Expo 2026

The curved projection wall in zone A10, Life Around Water, the Taoyuan Department of Water Resources pavilion. Visitors scan a code and answer five questions about water; the answers become frequencies and parameters that grow their own water mandala in real time on a twelve-metre curved screen, with a one-minute scheduled performance every half hour.

  • Cymatics
  • Interaction
Carbon Really Has Weight — United Daily News — image from the article
PressUnited Daily News / article image

· Published Publication date.

Carbon Really Has Weight — United Daily News

United Daily News on the Environmental Protection Bureau's TAOYUAN RE:CODE pavilion, introducing Woven Land, Woven River in its dynamic computing zone. The story follows the bureau's press release from the day before the opening; several other outlets ran it the same day.

  • Exhibition coverage
Redefining Design Perception — DesignBIZ Summit — event image
TalkShopping Design / article image

· Past event record Event date.

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
Permanent Work URLs — art.cheyuwu.com Subdomains — project image
Open sourceChe-Yu Wu / cheyuwu.com article image

· Public · ongoing Launch date as recorded by the artist; the subdomain pages do not carry a date.

Permanent Work URLs — art.cheyuwu.com Subdomains

Subdomains under art.cheyuwu.com give individual works their own permanent, directly openable addresses. Soul Fish, Soul Sea and The Eternal Garden in a Bottle sit at the soulfish, soulsea and eternal-garden subdomains; since 20 September 2026 the root of eternal-garden runs the Paris p5.js ecosystem and distorted score, while Eternal Floral Realm, the 2024 brush-flower piece that used to live there, is a different work and remains at the daisy and othershore paths.

  • Generative art
  • Presence
Nymph — music cover
Music

· Published Music publication date.

Nymph

A music release on StreetVoice, titled Nymph: a sound record from this period of the artist’s practice.

  • Music
  • Sound
Prototype

· Published Date taken from the caption prefix 260830; the Instagram page shows a posting date of 29 August 2026.

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
open-audiovisual interface capture: simulated performance, particles and piano controls
Open sourceChe-Yu Wu / interface capture, 2026-09-09

· Public · ongoing Repository creation date, not the date of first public release.

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
Cool Is Not the Same as Memorable — Shopping Design Interview — image from the article
PressShopping Design / article image

· Published Publication date of 21 August 2026 as shown on the page.

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
Taiwan.md — An Open-source Digital Anthropology Museum — event image
TalkTaiwan AI Academy / article image

· Past event record Event date.

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
Independent Thinking Beyond AI — Openbook Talk — event image
TalkOpenbook / article image

· Past event record Talk date from the organiser's notice; the written report was published on 2026-09-10.

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
AI Even Draws Taiwan's Map Wrong — FutureCity, CommonWealth — image from the article
PressFuture City @ CommonWealth / article image

· Published Publication date as recorded by the artist; the article page returned 403 and could not be read.

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
MONOLAB Digital Creation Salon #02 — work or course image
Talk

· Past event record The event page still shows the originally planned 11 July 2026; the salon was actually held on 2 August, the date carried by the post-event survey and notes.

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
Reality Lens 240507 — OpenProcessing sketch thumbnail
ExhibitionChe-Yu Wu / OpenProcessing

· Public · ongoing Exhibition month announced by the artist; the festival runs 18 August to 11 October 2026.

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
Piano and strings performing at Le Méridien beside golden projected imagery
Performance

· Artist record Performance date / artist’s record.

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
Taiwan.md at the NVIDIA RTX AI PC Seminar — event image
TalkNVIDIA / page image

· Past event record Date listed on the event page.

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
Hahow course cover: New Media Art Panorama
CourseChe-Yu Wu / Hahow course cover

· Public · ongoing Fundraising start; teaching is scheduled for 22 September 2026.

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
Open Dictate interface capture: the headline about turning speech into text you control, next to a hold-to-talk recording panel
Open sourceChe-Yu Wu / interface capture, 2026-09-12

· Public prototype Repository creation date, not the date of first public release.

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
OpenHCI 2026 — event image
TalkOpenHCI organisers / page image

· Past event record Event date per the artist's talk 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
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
Open sourceChe-Yu Wu / interface capture, 2026-09-12

· Public · ongoing Repository creation date, not the date of first public release.

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
The Last Input — Before the End — performance view
Performance林亞蓁,C-LAB委託拍攝

· Past event record Event date.

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
Generative AI Conference 2026 — event image
TalkGenerative AI Conference organisers / article image

· Past event record Event date.

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
Writing

· Published Publication date as recorded by the artist; only the title and the publication name could be read from the page.

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
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
PrototypeChe-Yu Wu / interface capture, 2026-09-12

· Public prototype Repository creation date, not the date of first public release.

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
Sonarium interface capture: dark landing page with the headline The page is the instrument and a bottom bar of theme, ambience and strum controls
Open sourceChe-Yu Wu / interface capture, 2026-09-12

· Public · ongoing Repository creation date, not the date of first public release.

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
WebToe interface capture: LFO Garden nodes and live visuals
Open sourceChe-Yu Wu / interface capture, 2026-09-09

· Public · ongoing Repository creation date, not the date of first public release.

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
Exhibition

· Past event record Exhibition date as recorded by the artist; only the exhibition title could be read from the page.

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
An International School That Teaches Taiwan — ZA Share EP60 — video still
PodcastZASHARE / YouTube thumbnail

· Published Release date of 22 May 2026 as listed on Apple Podcasts.

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
Claude Code for Artists · Taipei #4 — event image
TalkLuma event page / article image

· Past event record Event date as recorded by the artist; neither the Luma listing nor the transcript page states a date.

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
Is NFT Hype or History? — EP341 — episode artwork
PodcastFirstory podcast host / podcast artwork

· Published Release date as listed on Firstory.

Is NFT Hype or History? — EP341

Episode 341 of 寶博朋友說 and 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
From Generative Art to Taiwan.md — Formosa Radio — video still
Podcast寶島聯播網 / YouTube thumbnail

· Published Broadcast date as recorded by the artist; only the title could be read from the YouTube page.

From Generative Art to Taiwan.md — Formosa Radio

An episode of Formosa Radio's programme 寶島有意思 with a title about 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
Writing a README for Taiwan with AI and Open Source — EP340 — episode artwork
PodcastEP340|AI+開源寫出「台灣使用說明書」,從台積電到早餐店台味全包!feat. 新媒體藝術家 吳哲宇(上) / podcast artwork

· Published Release date of 29 April 2026 as listed on Apple Podcasts.

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

Episode 340 of the podcast 寶博朋友說 and 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
Unfinished Bloom — work or course image
Exhibition

· Past event record Event date.

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
MONOLAB Digital Creation Salon #01 — work or course image
Talk

· Past event record Event date.

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
Who Is Che-Yu Wu, Founder of Taiwan.md? — PTS+ — image from the article
PressPTS+ / article image

· Published Publication date of the article.

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
Would You Let a Lobster Control Your Computer? — Scientific American Taiwan — image from the article
PressScientific American Taiwan / article image

· Published Publication date as recorded by the artist; the date could not be read from the article page.

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
TouchDesigner Introductory Workshop — NSYSU — event image
WorkshopNSYSU / article image

· Past event record Teaching date as recorded by the artist. The university page does not list a workshop date; it was published on 26 March 2026.

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
Reclaiming Taiwan's Narrative in the AI Era — Liberty Times — image from the article
PressLiberty Times / article image

· Published Publication date of the report.

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
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
Open sourceChe-Yu Wu / interface capture, 2026-09-12

· Public · ongoing Repository creation date, not the date of first public release.

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
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
Open sourceChe-Yu Wu / interface capture, 2026-09-12

· Public · ongoing Repository creation date, not the date of first public release.

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
260226 Be Seen — music cover
MusicChe-Yu Wu / StreetVoice cover

· Published Date taken from the title prefix 260226; the individual song page has not been located.

260226 Be Seen

A music release on StreetVoice titled 260226 Be seen.

  • Music
  • Sound
Writing

· Public · ongoing 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.

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
Poetry in Data — Artverse Ep.267 — video still
PressMETAVERSE 藝次元宇宙 / YouTube thumbnail

· Published Broadcast date as recorded by the artist; the publication date could not be read from the YouTube page.

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
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
Ongoing practiceChe-Yu Wu / interface capture, 2026-09-12

· Public · ongoing The starting month recorded by the artist.

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