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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.
2025-01-01 — 2025-12-3120 public records
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The Poetic World of Generative Art
A talk at NYCU’s Institute of Communication Studies on the poetic possibilities of generative art and how algorithms can express life and emotion.
- Creative coding
- Education
Life and Emotion in the Digital World
A talk at NYCU’s Institute of Applied Arts tracing interactive websites, generative art and immersive experiences. It considers the role of algorithms in artistic and commercial practice through questions of life, emotion and improvisation.
- Creative coding
- Education
OEES — Art and AI
An Art and AI discussion at the Open Eyes Economy Summit in Poland, bringing an artist’s practice into a public conversation about artificial intelligence and culture.
- Authorship
- Public discussion
Algorithmic Art with JavaScript — JSDC 2025
A JSDC talk on JavaScript as an artistic medium, exploring generative visuals and interaction. It brings questions of life and emotion in code to a developer audience.
- Creative coding
- Education
Symphony of Fragments
A record of a generative art exhibition at AMBI SPACE ONE in Taipei 101, continuing an exploration of algorithms in spatial settings.
- Installation
- Generative art
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- Che-Yu Wu ↗︎
- MONOLAB ↗︎
- Related records
- → The Formula of All Things — Can Code Grow a Soul?（2026） · Writing on algorithms entering space (Curatorial theme)
251028 Wayfaring Soul
A music release on StreetVoice tagged as classical. The song page carries a short text by the artist about the world darkening toward evening, and questions about what remains once the path ceases to exist and the endpoint becomes a beginning. No lyrics are provided on the page.
- Music
- Sound
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- StreetVoice ↗︎
- Related records
- → Nymph（2026） · The same StreetVoice release line (Curatorial theme)
The Eternal Garden in a Bottle — Pier-2
A digital ecosystem nourished by sound, presented at Pier-2 as an immersive interactive performance exhibition. Musicians, visitors and algorithms participate in the garden’s changing state.
- Performance
- Ecosystems
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- MONOLAB event listing on ACCUPASS ↗︎
- Pier-2 Art Center ↗︎
- Related records
- → The Last Input — Before the End（2026） · Performing generative worlds (Curatorial theme)
- → Permanent Work URLs — art.cheyuwu.com Subdomains（2026） · A work that stays openable after the exhibition (Curatorial theme)
The Human Soul of AI Art — Side Chat E375
An interview about algorithmic art, AI-assisted creation and the artist’s aesthetic judgment. It moves from the mechanisms of making to the creator’s role as tools change.
- Authorship
- Judgment
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- INSIDE ↗︎
- Related records
- → Redefining Design Perception — DesignBIZ Summit（2026） · Creative judgment in the AI era (Curatorial theme)
- → Poetry in Data — Artverse Ep.267（2026） · Practice discussed on a broadcast programme (Curatorial theme)
250731 The Wild Road
A piano release on StreetVoice tagged as classical. The artist’s text opens with the unknown swallowing the waymarks of the wilderness, then turns to solitude, time and moving on. No lyrics are provided.
- Music
- Journey
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- StreetVoice ↗︎
- Related records
- → 250522 Star Trails · The same year of piano pieces (Curatorial theme)
The Coffee Dreamscape
A real-time generative digital work in the terraced seating area of Starbucks Reserve DREAM PLAZA, measuring 15.5 by 2.8 metres. The Starbucks page describes it as drawing on the company’s Costa Rican coffee estate and alternating two scenes: a flowing landscape of coffee trees growing with Taipei’s climate, and a flavour poem turning coffee varieties into colour spectra. It responds to footfall, sales data and live weather.
- Real-time generative
- Site-specific work
UDN Tech — LG’s transparent OLED arrives in Taiwan
A product report on UDN Tech covering the Taiwan launch of the LG SIGNATURE OLED T transparent wireless display, its switch between transparent and pure black modes, its two-million-NTD price and delivery timeline, alongside the StanbyME 2. The article notes that work by new media artist Che-Yu Wu was shown with the transparent screen.
- Press
- Brand collaboration
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- 聯合報科技玩家 UDN Tech ↗︎
- Related records
- → Physis is not a thing, it's an act · The same LG launch event (Documented connection)
Physis is not a thing, it's an act
Presented at the LG product launch at BREEZE MEGA STUDIO, combining an exhibition area with an immersive concert. Organised by LG, Zhan Guo Ce and MONOLAB; curated and directed by Te-Ying Chu, with artwork and music by Che-Yu Wu.
- Brand collaboration
- Immersive concert
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- MONOLAB ↗︎
- Related records
- → UDN Tech — LG’s transparent OLED arrives in Taiwan · The same LG launch event (Documented connection)
- → LG Eternal Floral Realm（2024） · The second LG collaboration (Curatorial theme)
Algorithmic Verses: The Boundary Between Dreams and Loneliness
An immersive piano concert at Huashan 1914 Creative Park, presented by MONOLAB and MagicBox. The MONOLAB page invites the audience to sit, lie down or simply close their eyes and drift with the piano and the light, from faint cosmic light through an afternoon lake breeze and turbulent stardust to snow and ocean. Artist, music and piano by Che-Yu Wu, joined by Min-Ling Wang (strings), Pei-Ying Hsieh (percussion and sound) and Chen-Ni Chang (handpan, guitar, harmonica).
- Immersive concert
- Piano
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- MONOLAB ↗︎
- Klook ticketing ↗︎
- Related records
- → This I Don’t Know EP17 — When Code Becomes a Brush · The concert previewed on the show (Curatorial theme)
- → 250224 Blue Horizon · Drawn from the same body of piano work (Curatorial theme)
- → 250430 Stars · Drawn from the same body of piano work (Curatorial theme)
- → 250522 Star Trails · Drawn from the same body of piano work (Curatorial theme)
- → Algorithmic Verses: Island Impressions and Mountain Verses with AUO FindArt at Art Taipei（2024） · The Algorithmic Verses name used first on visual work (Curatorial theme)
250522 Star Trails
A piano release on StreetVoice tagged as soundtrack and new age. Its bilingual text describes a midnight dream descending, countless lives flashing across the sky like meteors and sinking into endless dust. No lyrics are provided.
- Music
- Night sky
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- StreetVoice ↗︎
- Related records
- → 250430 Stars · The same year of piano pieces (Curatorial theme)
- → 250731 The Wild Road · The same year of piano pieces (Curatorial theme)
- → Algorithmic Verses: The Boundary Between Dreams and Loneliness · Drawn from the same body of piano work (Curatorial theme)
This I Don’t Know EP17 — When Code Becomes a Brush
Episode 17 of the podcast This I Don’t Know, on how generative art breaks the limits of making. The episode page describes him discussing art becoming a computable system with unlimited generative outcomes, the difference from traditional art, how NFTs give digital works scarcity, and how an artist balances technology against aesthetics, closing with a preview of an immersive piano concert.
- Interview
- Generative art
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- Apple Podcasts ↗︎
- Related records
- → Algorithmic Verses: The Boundary Between Dreams and Loneliness · The concert previewed on the show (Curatorial theme)
250430 Stars
A piano release on StreetVoice tagged as soundtrack and new age. Its bilingual text speaks of hanging one’s own constellation beneath a boundless dome, whispering in the name of a tiny insect, blooming faint yet eternal light in the dark. No lyrics are provided.
- Music
- Night sky
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- StreetVoice ↗︎
- Related records
- → 250224 Blue Horizon · The same year of piano pieces (Curatorial theme)
- → 250522 Star Trails · The same year of piano pieces (Curatorial theme)
- → Algorithmic Verses: The Boundary Between Dreams and Loneliness · Drawn from the same body of piano work (Curatorial theme)
250224 Blue Horizon
A piano release on StreetVoice tagged as classical. Its bilingual text describes memory scattered along winding roads, bleeding like ink into handwritten letters and staining the hands with blurred traces. No lyrics are provided.
- Music
- Memory
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- StreetVoice ↗︎
- Related records
- → 250111 Dripping Loneliness · The same year of piano pieces (Curatorial theme)
- → 250430 Stars · The same year of piano pieces (Curatorial theme)
- → Algorithmic Verses: The Boundary Between Dreams and Loneliness · Drawn from the same body of piano work (Curatorial theme)
250111 Dripping Loneliness
A piano release on StreetVoice tagged as classical. The artist’s text starts from a theory without free will, states that one is all and all is one, and calls both world and self an illusion. No lyrics are provided.
- Music
- Solitude
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- StreetVoice ↗︎
- Related records
- → 250102 Circulation Noise · The same year of piano pieces (Curatorial theme)
- → 250224 Blue Horizon · The same year of piano pieces (Curatorial theme)
250102 Circulation Noise
A piano release on StreetVoice tagged as classical. The artist’s text describes emerging from confusion, a purer emptiness born of greater desire, and drawing a dream forest visible only to oneself inside a world that cannot be defined. No lyrics are provided.
- Music
- Noise
- Sources
- Open the original page ↗︎
- StreetVoice ↗︎
- Related records
- → 250111 Dripping Loneliness · The same year of piano pieces (Curatorial theme)
- → 241104 The Other Shore of Dreams（2024） · The same year of piano pieces (Curatorial theme)
TouchDesigner Workshop — MonoLab Education
A TouchDesigner workshop from MONOLAB Education. The page describes a hands-on beginner class needing no programming experience, producing an interactive piece fit for the stage within seven hours, and ending by connecting the work to stage equipment for an actual run. The same platform lists an online TouchDesigner introduction and a digital creation salon.
- Teaching
- TouchDesigner