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2023-01-01 — 2023-12-3135 public records
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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
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- ELLE Taiwan ↗︎
- Related records
- → Soul Fish at the Yilan DIGI-FI Festival · The work covered in the article (Documented connection)
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
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- StreetVoice ↗︎
- Related records
- → 231110 Stray Birds 288, 223, 278 · The same year of piano pieces (Curatorial theme)
- → 240102 Sea of People（2024） · The same year of piano pieces (Curatorial theme)
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
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- Vogue Taiwan ↗︎
- Related records
- → Soul Fish at the Yilan DIGI-FI Festival · The work covered in the article (Documented connection)
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
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- Shopping Design ↗︎
- Related records
- → TAIWAN DESIGN BEST 100 — Concept Exhibition of the Year · The same BEST 100 list (Curatorial theme)
The Soul of Flowers on fxhash
An fxhash project recorded on the artist's site: project 29643, 200 editions, released on 6 December 2023.
- Generative art
- NFT
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- Che-Yu Wu / NFT page ↗︎
- Related records
- → The Soul of Flowers at The Digital Art Mile, Basel（2024） · The same work on show (Curatorial theme)
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
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- cheyuwu.com ↗︎
- 映像節 DIGI-FI ↗︎
- Related records
- → Vogue on the 2023 DIGI-FI festival · The work covered in the article (Documented connection)
- → ELLE on the 2023 Yilan DIGI-FI festival · The work covered in the article (Documented connection)
- → Soul Fish Collabs at Personal Structures, Venice（2024） · Another showing of the same Soul Fish work (Curatorial theme)
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
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- Shopping Design ↗︎
- Related records
- → The Great Equation — A Digital Life Journey · The selected exhibition (Documented connection)
- → A talk at the BEST 100 annual lecture party · The same BEST 100 list (Curatorial theme)
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
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- cheyuwu.com ↗︎
- Related records
- → Urban Contour on fxhash（2024） · The same Urban Contour title (Curatorial theme)
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
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- StreetVoice ↗︎
- Related records
- → 231110 Stray Birds 288, 223, 278 · The same year of piano pieces (Curatorial theme)
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
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- StreetVoice ↗︎
- Related records
- → 231019 Words · The same year of piano pieces (Curatorial theme)
- → 231225 Overture to the Snow Verses · The same year of piano pieces (Curatorial theme)
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
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- GQ Taiwan ↗︎
- Related records
- → The Great Equation — A Digital Life Journey · The new solo exhibition mentioned in the piece (Documented connection)
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
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- 動區動趨 BlockTempo ↗︎
- Related records
- → The Great Equation — A Digital Life Journey · Coverage of this solo exhibition (Documented connection)
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
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- 自由時報 Liberty Times ↗︎
- Related records
- → The Great Equation — A Digital Life Journey · Coverage of this solo exhibition (Documented connection)
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
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- 中央社 CNA ↗︎
- Related records
- → The Great Equation — A Digital Life Journey · Coverage of this solo exhibition (Documented connection)
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
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
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- MONOLAB ↗︎
- 雙人表演場精華短片 ↗︎
- Related records
- → CNA on the opening of The Great Equation · Coverage of this solo exhibition (Documented connection)
- → Liberty Times on The Great Equation · Coverage of this solo exhibition (Documented connection)
- → BlockTempo on The Great Equation · Coverage of this solo exhibition (Documented connection)
- → GQ Taiwan — Inspired by Shade Green Metallic · The new solo exhibition mentioned in the piece (Documented connection)
- → TAIWAN DESIGN BEST 100 — Concept Exhibition of the Year · The selected exhibition (Documented connection)
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
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- NYCU Arts Festival ↗︎
- Related records
- → Soul Fish Collabs at Personal Structures, Venice（2024） · Two showings of the same Soul Fish (Curatorial theme)
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
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
Unbound: Ecology in the Age of Machines
A group exhibition at Unit, Mayfair in London, running 9 August to 5 September 2023 with seven artists. It addresses the relationship between biological and technological entities, holding that ecology is not only the study of where we find ourselves but of everything that surrounds us and lets us live. Che-Yu Wu shows the Ecological Fusion series, numbered variants using particle and cellular communication simulations to ask how technological and biological time converge. The show presents on-chain works alongside physical prints.
- Group show
- Ecology
CC! Let Me Tell You! S1EP4 — with Huang Xin
Episode four, hosted by Che-Yu Wu with digital artist Huang Xin, who has worked in interactive art for over a decade, on making, appreciation and teaching. It covers how he entered the field, what makes generative art distinctive, why he teaches, the survival paths open to Taiwanese digital artists, and how fxhash changed the landscape.
- Podcast
- Conversation
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- CreativeCoding.in ↗︎
- Related records
- → CC! Let Me Tell You! S1EP3 — NFTs and art · The same self-produced season (Curatorial theme)
CC! Let Me Tell You! S1EP3 — NFTs and art
Episode three looks at the relationship between NFTs and visual art and their effect on making and on the digital creative industry, covering the fundamentals, digital distortion, how the market behaves, and intellectual property questions in the space.
- Podcast
- NFT
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- CreativeCoding.in ↗︎
- Related records
- → CC! Let Me Tell You! S1EP2 — inside interactive design · The same self-produced season (Curatorial theme)
- → CC! Let Me Tell You! S1EP4 — with Huang Xin · The same self-produced season (Curatorial theme)
Taipei Generative Onsite: Archipelago Hashed 2023 — a review
A review of Taipei Generative Onsite: Archipelago Hashed 2023 at Fongkai Art Museum, written by the CreativeCoding.in editor. Organised by Volume DAO, a Taiwanese collective working on Tezos, the show places generative art inside a physical museum. The article describes four zones: solo presentations, a thematic section on recursion, an interpretive section comparing digital and physical craft, and an interactive area where visitors co-generate work through algorithmic frameworks on their phones.
- Review
- Generative art
ab-project-template
A JavaScript repository on GitHub serving as a project starter template. It carries no description field, and both its creation and its last push fall on 13 June 2023.
- Open source
- Template
CC! Let Me Tell You! S1EP2 — inside interactive design
Episode two covers trends in interactive design, its range of applications and the difficulties of running a studio. It takes in his reasons for founding the studio, the early business problems, notable Taiwanese interactive design teams and projects, AR, VR, MR and XR technologies, commercial applications, and the thinking behind the name Monoame.
- Podcast
- Industry
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- CreativeCoding.in ↗︎
- Related records
- → CC! Let Me Tell You! S1EP1 — an engineer's route into art · The same self-produced season (Curatorial theme)
- → CC! Let Me Tell You! S1EP3 — NFTs and art · The same self-produced season (Curatorial theme)
CC! Let Me Tell You! S1EP1 — an engineer's route into art
Episode one, hosted by Leona with the studio's founder and featuring Che-Yu Wu. It asks what creative coding actually is and traces his own way into it, covering the obstacles he hit, cases he finds interesting, the gap in resources between Taiwan and abroad, advice for people stuck at the programming barrier, and paths for learning and work. Distributed on FirstStory, Spotify, KKBOX, Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and SoundOn.
- Podcast
- Creative coding
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- CreativeCoding.in ↗︎
- Related records
- → CC! Let Me Tell You! S1EP0 pilot · The same self-produced season (Curatorial theme)
- → CC! Let Me Tell You! S1EP2 — inside interactive design · The same self-produced season (Curatorial theme)
CC! Let Me Tell You! S1EP0 pilot
The pilot episode of the studio's own podcast, led by Che-Yu Wu, founder of Monoame. It ranges over a trip to Japan, an idea for generative ramen, metalwork, encounters with Takawo and Kevin Abosch, and the Checks project, extending into smart contracts, conceptual art and the philosophy of quantum mechanics. The episode runs about thirty minutes.
- Podcast
- Studio talk
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- CreativeCoding.in ↗︎
- Related records
- → CC! Let Me Tell You! S1EP1 — an engineer's route into art · The same self-produced season (Curatorial theme)
Space-Time Weaving Series
A series released on Foundation. The platform has since shut down and the collection page returns 404 with an offline notice, so this entry records only the series name and the date without describing the work. A deployer record for a contract named Space-Time Weaving Series by Che-Yu Wu remains visible on chain.
- Series
- Time
gpt4-cli
A Python repository on GitHub whose name points to a command-line tool for GPT-4. It carries no description field; it was created on 18 March 2023 and last pushed the following day.
- Open source
- CLI
Soul Fish — the making of
A technical account of building Soul Fish, laid out as successive iterations from an early sine-wave outline through to shader work, covering blending modes, the generative music implementation and the deployment process on fxhash. The through-line is how rational programming is made to produce a sense of life.
- Process
- Shaders
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- CreativeCoding.in ↗︎
- Related records
- → Soul Fish — the creation story · The article links directly to the creation story (Documented connection)
The Hamily WAGMI — The Memes by 6529, Season 2 Card 2
An ERC1155 work in The Memes by 6529, listed on OpenSea with a total supply of 690. An eight-by-ten grid of robot characters called hams shake, and the shaking propagates as waves across the grid; the words The Hamily and WAGMI travel around the edges, hovering reveals letters, and keyboard shortcuts download an image or open The Hamily site. The card is also tied to an episode over use of Wu's code, after which past and future royalties were assigned to him.
- Memes
- Community
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- OpenSea ↗︎
- 21st Century Digital Art ↗︎
- Related records
- → 230206 MEMEGINEERING · The same meme line (Curatorial theme)
Creative Coding Taiwan meetup #5 — AI tools and on-chain generative art
The fifth community meetup, in two parts. Che-Yu Wu discusses how AI tools reshape creative workflow, arguing that Midjourney and ChatGPT work as multiplication rather than replacement and should amplify what a maker is already good at. Huang Xin distinguishes generative art from AI art, treating generative art as a way of making through code with NFTs verifying uniqueness and ownership, and compares the curated model of Art Blocks with the open model of fxhash on Tezos.
- Community
- AI tools
230206 MEMEGINEERING
A release on Manifold whose claim page is titled 230206 Memegineering, matching the date prefix in the title. The page loads its content client-side and only the title could be read when fetched, so the edition size and description are not asserted here.
- Memes
- On-chain release
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- Manifold ↗︎
- Related records
- → The Hamily WAGMI — The Memes by 6529, Season 2 Card 2 · The same meme line (Curatorial theme)
The Soul Interactive Collection
An eye suspended in darkness, computed pixel by pixel in p5.js and a GLSL shader, with generative music on a C minor triad. Written in the hall of the Solana Breakpoint conference in Lisbon in November 2021, projected across the walls and floor of Chaos Laboratory in Taipei 101 in May 2022, and minted on Ethereum as a hundred ERC-1155 copies on 9 February 2023, which Unit London airdropped to its collectors in March. Moving the mouse takes over the centre and colour of the eye; a click turns on the sound.
- Interactive
- Cosmos
Soul Fish — the creation story
The artist's account of making Soul Fish. Deep-sea creatures with transparent, luminous bodies were the starting point; the form is built from mathematical wave functions, Perlin noise and physics simulation, with fins, whiskers and bones driven by randomised parameters. Each fish also generates its own melodic line from sampled piano, so the piece keeps composing itself. Viewers can steer swimming speed and direction and pop bubbles with a click, each triggering a sound. The article records that the edition of 400 fully minted on 16 January 2023 and that the work has been shown at Taipei 101 and projected onto public architecture.
- Generative art
- Generative music
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- CreativeCoding.in ↗︎
- Related records
- → Soul Fish — the making of · The article links directly to the creation story (Documented connection)