CHE-YU WU / STRATA 地層
Strata | 2001–2026: what each year left behind
The school years in the making
Animation, music and code meet on one wall. Follow a documented connection, or begin with a single piece of paper.
2001-09-09 — 2007-09-0919 public records
Red string: documented links · Twine: shared themes · Hover a paper to read a connection.
Complete 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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Complete records
Read each record
Newest first, older as you go down. Each record retains its date basis, public sources and connection labels.
Virus: a bacteriophage that moves
A bacteriophage drawn in the summer before junior high, 98 by 105 pixels: a red head, a coiled tail, thin legs. The file is simply called “virus”. His favourite television back then was Discovery programmes on genes and genetic engineering.
- Flash
- Biology
Web shortcuts: Yahoo, Sony, Baidu, MSN, Slime, Google
A round main button reads “web shortcuts”, with six buttons to its right: Yahoo, Sony, Baidu, MSN, Slime and Google.
- Class website
- Flash
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- 原件存檔（吳哲宇舊硬碟，2026-09-30 備份） ↗︎
- Related records
- → Class-site tools panel: Yahoo Mail, the Yam blog, the Slime games corner · Another panel, three days later (Curatorial theme)
Class-site tools panel: Yahoo Mail, the Yam blog, the Slime games corner
A small panel made in the summer after graduation, titled “tools”, with three coloured buttons to Yahoo Mail, the Yam blog and the Slime games corner. It still clicks; most of the sites it points to are gone.
- Class website
- Flash
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- 原件存檔（吳哲宇舊硬碟，2026-09-30 備份） ↗︎
- Related records
- → Web shortcuts: Yahoo, Sony, Baidu, MSN, Slime, Google · Another panel, three days later (Curatorial theme)
Wobbly frame
A white picture frame with a black border that wobbles from side to side over 50 frames.
- Flash
- Animation
Gifted resource class banner
Made at the same time and in the same way as the class 6-6 banner, for Sanxing Elementary's gifted resource class: photos cycling on the left, the school's name and three birds in Christmas hats on the right. The photos show classmates, so only a blurred still is shown.
- Class website
- Flash
New technique 1: navigation buttons for the 606 site
A large panel reading “606” on the left and green rounded buttons numbered 1 to 8 on the right. The file is called “new technique 1”: a set of buttons he tried out for the class site.
- Class website
- Flash
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- 原件存檔（吳哲宇舊硬碟，2026-09-30 備份） ↗︎
- Related records
- → Class 6-6 banner: “606 will become part of everyone's heart” · Navigation for the same class site (Curatorial theme)
Arrows: a bullseye, then a face
Two versions of 190 frames each. In the first a bow shoots at a red and white target; in the second, made the next day, the target is replaced by a square face.
- Flash
- Animation
Rabbit: “So bored…”
A rabbit leans on a big ball under a picture of a fish tank, beside a clock and three pots of flowers, and says “So bored…”.
- Flash
- Animation
Class 6-6 banner: “606 will become part of everyone's heart”
The banner's line reads “606 will become part of everyone's heart… and a memory to miss…”. The site itself was never captured by the Internet Archive; the drives kept its Flash parts — navigation buttons, a tools panel, a rabbit, arrows, a bacteriophage — and a banner made for the school's gifted resource class. His 2011 account lists one excellence, one special excellence and one honourable mention in the Taipei class website competition from his primary school years. Classmates' photos in the banners are blurred.
- Class website
- Flash
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- 原件存檔（吳哲宇舊硬碟，2026-09-30 備份） ↗︎
- 獎金獵人 PChome 新聞台（2011 年自述） ↗︎
- Related records
- → New technique 1: navigation buttons for the 606 site · Navigation for the same class site (Curatorial theme)
S.P Shen-Mie Squad
A little comic with a classmate's nickname as its hero: a moon, a starry sky, an Earth, and a grinning white character riding a flying saucer under the title “S.P Shen-Mie Squad”.
- Flash
- Animation
Save energy, cut waste: honourable mention in the education bureau's environmental animation competition
The title card reads “Taipei Sanxing Elementary School, Che-Yu Wu”; 1,950 frames, two minutes forty, opening with “global warming is getting worse”. His 2011 account says that in sixth grade he entered the education bureau's environmental animation competition “and only got an honourable mention”, then worked harder, and in eighth grade won his first Acer Digital Creation Award. The Flash file still plays in full.
- Flash
- Animation
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- 原件存檔（吳哲宇舊硬碟，2026-09-30 備份） ↗︎
- 獎金獵人 PChome 新聞台（2011 年自述） ↗︎
- Related records
- → Skeleton: “Welcome to class 5-6!” · His first competition, a year later (Curatorial theme)
- → Earth study: an Earth before the environmental animation · Used in this competition piece (Curatorial theme)
The music in a glass: a sixth-grade research project
The researcher line reads “60610 Che-Yu Wu”. It began when his father watched him make a simple instrument out of a pen and a ruler and asked him to play a song. He lined up twelve goblets, measured how much water made Do, Re and Mi, then tried soy sauce, oil, vinegar, milk, soy milk, green tea and cola, and finally jelly wax and ice. The report, a photo from it and two experiment videos are on the archive page.
- Science fair
- Sound
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- 原件存檔（吳哲宇舊硬碟，2026-09-30 備份） ↗︎
- Related records
- → Free-flying paper planes: a sixth-grade science fair project · His other research project that year (Curatorial theme)
Earth study: an Earth before the environmental animation
An Earth study of 1,106 frames: blue sea, green land, white ice caps top and bottom, drawn the same way as the Earth in “Save energy, cut waste” two months later.
- Flash
- Animation
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- 原件存檔（吳哲宇舊硬碟，2026-09-30 備份） ↗︎
- Related records
- → Save energy, cut waste: honourable mention in the education bureau's environmental animation competition · Used in this competition piece (Curatorial theme)
Free-flying paper planes: a sixth-grade science fair project
Sanxing Elementary's science fair for academic year 95, class 6-6. It began with watching experienced folders “adjust a bit on the left, a bit on the right”; he ran five sets of tests on the tail, the wing curve, wing size, flying into the wind and nose weight. The conclusion notes that with the tail folded up to 90 degrees the plane comes all the way back to where it started.
- Science fair
- Physics
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- 原件存檔（吳哲宇舊硬碟，2026-09-30 備份） ↗︎
- Related records
- → The music in a glass: a sixth-grade research project · His other research project that year (Curatorial theme)
The watermelon turns red
One of the fifth-grade batch: a rocket that fires and a small fire catching light, under the file name “the watermelon turns red”.
- Flash
- Animation
Watermelon report: a 31-frame animation
The longest of the fifth-grade batch at 31 frames: a watermelon splits and the red flesh bursts out. The original file name is kept as it was.
- Flash
- Animation
Flower: three robots and a building
One of the fifth-grade batch. The file is called “flower”; the picture is three round-headed, thin-legged robots under a blue sky with clouds, standing by a building.
- Flash
- Animation
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- 原件存檔（吳哲宇舊硬碟，2026-09-30 備份） ↗︎
- Related records
- → Skeleton: “Welcome to class 5-6!” · From the same batch of five (Curatorial theme)
Skeleton: “Welcome to class 5-6!”
In fourth grade he borrowed a copy of Flash from school and drew with it for an hour or two every evening. The earliest batch on the drives is five files; in this one a skeleton holds up a speech bubble saying “Welcome to class 5-6!”, which dates the batch to fifth grade. White bones on red, with “welcome” written once more beside it.
- Flash
- Animation
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- 原件存檔（吳哲宇舊硬碟，2026-09-30 備份） ↗︎
- 獎金獵人 PChome 新聞台（2011 年自述） ↗︎
- Related records
- → Flower: three robots and a building · From the same batch of five (Curatorial theme)
- → Save energy, cut waste: honourable mention in the education bureau's environmental animation competition · His first competition, a year later (Curatorial theme)
Bubble bath
One of the fifth-grade batch, a single frame: a bathtub with a bottle labelled “bubbles” beside it, in a room built from blocks of colour.
- Flash
- Animation