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Creating Eternal Art Through Code — Mandarin Daily News
A profile in the Mandarin Daily News. It notes he was born in 1995 and makes generative art with code, using the image of a painter imagining hundreds of starry nights to explain generative work as the sum of those possibilities. The piece traces his self-taught coding at lunch breaks in primary school, digital creation contests at secondary school, a stint as a software engineer, graduate study in integrated digital media at New York University, and the pandemic years when code became a journal and produced more than two hundred works. It closes on Soul Fish.
- Profile
- Generative art
LG Eternal Floral Realm
Eternal Floral Realm was shown on the ground floor of DIAMOND TOWERS in Taipei, presented by LG and VML with MONOLAB as the production team; artist and music by Che-Yu Wu. LG’s press release describes OLED evo M4 wireless and G4 gallery displays, a Soundbar S95TR and webOS, with irregularly arranged screens, mirrored walls and water-ripple projection, alongside a partnership with the digital art platform Artlume.
- Generative art
- Brand collaboration
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- LG Taiwan press release ↗︎
- MONOLAB ↗︎
- Related records
- → Physis is not a thing, it's an act（2025） · The second LG collaboration (Curatorial theme)
The Eternal Garden in a Bottle — Open Factory, Cent Quatre 104 Paris
An Open Factory session during the residency at Cent Quatre 104 in Paris, presenting The Eternal Garden in a Bottle. The official 104 event page returned a 404 at the time of cataloguing, so only the venue, the event name and the month are kept here.
- Residency
- Paris
241104 The Other Shore of Dreams
A piano release on StreetVoice tagged as classical. Its bilingual text describes life and the world vanishing like passing shadows, memory as a thread spun by a former self, and an attempt to catch the eternity of now. No lyrics are provided.
- Music
- Memory
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- StreetVoice ↗︎
- Related records
- → 241015 Intangible Sunshine · The same year of piano pieces (Curatorial theme)
- → 250102 Circulation Noise（2025） · The same year of piano pieces (Curatorial theme)
241015 Intangible Sunshine
A piano release on StreetVoice tagged as classical. The bilingual text on the page speaks of letting all things be as they are, embraced and accepted in their purest form, with sunlight pouring over intertwining warmth. No lyrics are provided.
- Music
- Piano
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- StreetVoice ↗︎
- Related records
- → 240914 The Bull and the Sudden Rain · The same year of piano pieces (Curatorial theme)
- → 241104 The Other Shore of Dreams · The same year of piano pieces (Curatorial theme)
dialog() Asian Generative Art — C-LAB dome projection
dialog() is a generative art exhibition linking Tokyo, Taipei, Seoul and Beijing, gathering forty artists across those cities and starting in Tokyo in August 2024. The Taipei leg was organised by Volume Dao at C-LAB; the MONOLAB page describes the work inside the dome theatre, with mirrored flooring dissolving the horizon. Artist and music by Che-Yu Wu.
- Generative art
- Dome projection
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- MONOLAB ↗︎
- dialog() Asian Generative Art ↗︎
- Related records
- → The Soul of Flowers at TAxT Taoyuan Art x Technology Festival · Two shows in the same autumn (Curatorial theme)
Algorithmic Verses: Island Impressions and Mountain Verses with AUO FindArt at Art Taipei
Algorithmic Verses: Island Impressions and Mountain Verses was presented with AUO FindArt during Art Taipei. The record comes from the artist’s own Instagram post, whose text could not be read at the time of cataloguing, so only the title, the partner and the month are kept here.
- Algorithmic Verses
- Art fair
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- Che-Yu Wu on Instagram ↗︎
- Related records
- → Algorithmic Verses: The Boundary Between Dreams and Loneliness（2025） · The Algorithmic Verses name used first on visual work (Curatorial theme)
The Soul of Flowers at TAxT Taoyuan Art x Technology Festival
The Soul of Flowers was shown at the 2024 TAxT Taoyuan Art x Technology Festival, under the theme of a contest between humans and AI, at the Chungyuan Creative Park. The MONOLAB page describes a three-sided Light Matrix surround setup with stereoscopic viewing: with 3D glasses on, flat pixels become voxels occupying physical space. Organised by Taoyuan City Government with LightMatrix; artist and music by Che-Yu Wu.
- Generative art
- Stereoscopic display
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- MONOLAB ↗︎
- TAxT 桃園科技藝術節 ↗︎
- Related records
- → dialog() Asian Generative Art — C-LAB dome projection · Two shows in the same autumn (Curatorial theme)
240914 The Bull and the Sudden Rain
A piano release on StreetVoice tagged as classical. The page carries a short text by the artist about dampened time soaking into the night sky, crickets flickering across wide fields, and a bull stepping forward to wait for dawn. No lyrics are provided.
- Music
- Piano
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- StreetVoice ↗︎
- Related records
- → 241015 Intangible Sunshine · The same year of piano pieces (Curatorial theme)
240817 Summer Migration
A release on StreetVoice tagged as classical. The artist’s text speaks of a world changing fast, scattered memory and migration, mentions dinosaurs searching for the North Star, and asks whether eternity exists. No lyrics are provided.
- Music
- Migration
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- StreetVoice ↗︎
- Related records
- → 240428 Voice of Light · The same year of piano pieces (Curatorial theme)
The Soul of Flowers on the dialog() Asia tour
The dialog() Asian Generative Art Exhibition 2024 links Tokyo, Taipei, Seoul and Beijing, gathering forty artists. The official page says the show opened in Tokyo in August 2024, travelled to Taipei in October and Seoul in November, and continued to Beijing afterwards. The Soul of Flowers was shown on this tour.
- Touring exhibition
- Generative art
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- dialog() Asian Generative Art ↗︎
- Related records
- → The Soul of Flowers at The Digital Art Mile, Basel · The same Soul of Flowers on tour (Curatorial theme)
Algorithmic Verses Chapter Three — Eternal Floral Realm, Orchid
Algorithmic Verses Chapter Three: Eternal Floral Realm, Orchid was shown in the Tainan section of the Taiwan Cultural Expo. The expo’s Tainan page returned a 404 at the time of cataloguing, so only the work, the occasion and the month are kept here.
- Algorithmic Verses
- Cultural Expo
Art in the AI Era — Epoch Foundation
A speaker page for the Epoch Foundation’s Taiwan Symposium 2024. It gives his talk as Art in the AI Era: Exploring New Frontiers of Creativity, on how artists collaborate with AI, on algorithmic art, and on what art means once AI takes part in making it.
- Talk
- Artificial intelligence
Sacred Forest
Sacred Forest, a documentary co-produced by Taiwan’s PTS and Japan’s NHK for the broadcaster’s twenty-sixth anniversary, records the forests and communities along the Alishan Forest Railway in 8K with 22.2-channel sound. Gwei Lun-mei narrates, Kiyoshi Yoshida composed the score, and the Amami singer Ri’anna performs. An outdoor premiere was held on the concert hall plaza in Taipei on 29 June 2024, with the Wan Sheng Orchestra led by Che-Yi Li performing live alongside generative artist Che-Yu Wu; the PTS release records over two thousand people present.
- Live performance
- Documentary
TaiwanPlus Art Attack — Algorithm as Paint Brush
A segment in TaiwanPlus’s Art Attack. The description says he brings his programming expertise into visual art, writing mathematical equations that generate ever-shifting images rather than dictating each stroke, and applies the same algorithmic approach to instrumental systems that evolve across sets of chords.
- Press
- Generative art
The Soul of Flowers at The Digital Art Mile, Basel
The Soul of Flowers was shown at The Digital Art Mile in Basel. The ArtMeta site returned only its site name at the time of cataloguing, with no dates, venue or artist list, so only the work, the event and the month are kept here.
- International exhibition
- The Soul of Flowers
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- ArtMeta ↗︎
- Related records
- → The Soul of Flowers on the dialog() Asia tour · The same Soul of Flowers on tour (Curatorial theme)
- → The Soul of Flowers on fxhash（2023） · The same work on show (Curatorial theme)
NYCU 1000 Days — Every Stride Toward SURPASS
A video published by National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, chronicling the thousand days after its merger through interviews with interdisciplinary faculty, students studying across campuses, alumni and the university president, on commuting distance, the scope for interdisciplinary growth and the uncertainty of the early years.
- University
- Video
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- NYCU on YouTube ↗︎
- Related records
- → Generative Interactive Art and Systems Design — NYCU · The same university, the teaching thread (Curatorial theme)
240428 Voice of Light
A release on StreetVoice tagged as soundtrack and new age. The page carries one bilingual line about seeking one’s own sound within the light. No lyrics are provided.
- Music
- Light
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- StreetVoice ↗︎
- Related records
- → 240102 Sea of People · The same year of piano pieces (Curatorial theme)
- → 240817 Summer Migration · The same year of piano pieces (Curatorial theme)
akaRadio EP18 — a generative art special
Episode 18 of the podcast akaRadio. The page notes his degree in electrical engineering at NCTU, his study of creative coding in New York, his move to put work on chain from 2020, and the solo exhibition The Great Equation made with Double Fusion in late 2023. The conversation covers his entry into new media art, recent work, observations from NFT.NYC, his teaching on the Hahow platform, and his view of where generative art is heading.
- Interview
- Teaching
Soul Fish Collabs at Personal Structures, Venice
Personal Structures is a biennial contemporary art exhibition organised by the European Cultural Centre in Venice and held during the Venice Art Biennale. The official page gives the seventh edition as 20 Apr to 24 Nov 2024 across Palazzo Mora, Palazzo Bembo and the Marinaressa Gardens. Soul Fish Collabs was shown there.
- International exhibition
- Soul Fish
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- Personal Structures, European Cultural Centre ↗︎
- Related records
- → Soul Fish at the Yilan DIGI-FI Festival（2023） · Another showing of the same Soul Fish work (Curatorial theme)
- → Soul Fish at the NYCU Arts Festival（2023） · Two showings of the same Soul Fish (Curatorial theme)
Shopping Design podcast — What is generative art?
An interview in the Shopping Design podcast’s designer series. The page describes him framing generative art as playing inside a chaotic system, discussing the cost of leaving a well-paid engineering job for practice, the moment his work drew unexpected attention after being shared on an NFT platform, differences in how generative art developed in the United States and Taiwan, and where he draws on literature and philosophy.
- Interview
- Generative art
Kiss Science — Are art and mathematics related?
An episode in the Kiss Science channel’s science hall of fame series, featuring Che-Yu Wu as chief executive of MoYu Interactive Design. The description opens on two questions: what generative art is, and how one interacts with a digital object.
- Science communication
- Generative art
genart-nycu-2024 course repository
A public course repository for a class at the Institute of Applied Arts, NYCU. The README links to the university syllabus and holds notes for the first two sessions, covering an introduction to generative art and foundations in mathematics, physics and signal processing, along with weekly assignment briefs and a shared submission folder. The main branch carries nine commits.
- Open source
- Teaching
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- GitHub ↗︎
- Related records
- → Generative Interactive Art and Systems Design — NYCU · The course the README links to (Documented connection)
Turn! Dream Uncle EP112
Episode 112 of the podcast Turn! Dream Uncle. The page notes his move from electrical engineering at NCTU into generative art, and how the theft of his work became the moment he was seen. He discusses the algorithm rather than the final image as the soul of generative art, and how collecting digital work ties a collector to an artist’s future. The episode closes on his plans for 2024 to deepen his personal brand and find collaborations where his practice and commercial interest line up.
- Interview
- NFT
Urban Contour on fxhash
A generative release of 114 editions on fxhash. His NFT catalogue describes it as a generative Impressionist program piece that builds a city’s collective subconscious, where many fragments resemble one’s own surroundings and abstract lines and structures connect each person’s memories.
- NFT
- Generative art
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- cheyuwu.com NFT catalogue ↗︎
- Related records
- → Urban Contour with Lexus（2023） · The same Urban Contour title (Curatorial theme)
240102 Sea of People
A release on StreetVoice tagged as soundtrack and new age. The text describes gathering oddly shaped stones along an endless shore, arms unable to hold so much time, and finally turning to scatter them all into the sea. No lyrics are provided.
- Music
- Sea
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- StreetVoice ↗︎
- Related records
- → 240428 Voice of Light · The same year of piano pieces (Curatorial theme)
- → 231225 Overture to the Snow Verses（2023） · The same year of piano pieces (Curatorial theme)
Taiwan’s 30 most influential people in blockchain
BlockTempo’s annual list, split into industry leaders and community KOLs, with each person invited to give market predictions and Web3 observations for 2024. He appears among the industry leaders, listed as founder of MoYu Design, with a note that his work takes the algorithm as its soul and joins engineering to art.
- List
- Web3
Generative Interactive Art and Systems Design — NYCU
A course at the Institute of Applied Arts, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, in the second semester of academic year 112, course number 534417. The university syllabus page returned only its title at the time of cataloguing, so no outline details are recorded. The public repository for the same class on GitHub names it Generative Computational Art Implementation.
- Teaching
- Generative art
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- NYCU 課程時間表 ↗︎
- Related records
- → genart-nycu-2024 course repository · The course the README links to (Documented connection)
- → NYCU 1000 Days — Every Stride Toward SURPASS · The same university, the teaching thread (Curatorial theme)