The Last Input — Before the End
The Last Input is an immersive sound performance centered on the core theme of "letting go." It explores a critical question: when artificial intelligence can generate everything, what meaning remains in the final input made by human hands? Set within a 49.4-channel spatial audio environment, the work constructs a digital ecosystem where two autonomously evolving AI species grow and collide.
The system operates two AI agents with distinct personalities and objectives: the "City," which strives to maintain order, and the "Virus," which continuously spreads, mutates, and attacks from within. Driven by language models, both agents possess memory, learning capabilities, and autonomous decision-making skills. During the live performance, they can evolve new strategies in response to each other's behavior—making their choices entirely unpredictable, even to the artist.
Using a piano and a control interface, the artist inputs sounds and parameters for the City. These sounds are generated in real-time through an algorithmic audio system and spatialized across the 49.4 channels. The City's sounds emanate from fixed directions, symbolizing the source of order, while the Virus's sounds infiltrate from all sides, representing omnipresent decay.
The performance has no predetermined ending. Each show represents the singular, complete existence of this digital lifeform—an unrepeatable evolutionary process witnessed collectively by the audience, the artist, and the system itself.
Che-Yu Wu
Che-Yu Wu (b. 1995, Taipei) is a Taiwanese new media artist and founder of MonoLab, dedicated to casting eternal life and emotion in the digital world. Trained as an electrical engineer at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and in Integrated Digital Media at NYU, he combines engineering depth with algorithmic, interactive, and aesthetic practice to create digital works with their own voice and life force.
His works have been presented at the Venice Biennale (Soul Fish) and Art Basel Miami (The Soul of Flowers). In 2024, supported by TAICCA, he completed a residency at Centre Cent Quatre, Paris, producing The Eternal Garden in the Bottle. In 2025 he staged Algorithmic Verses, an immersive piano concert at Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Taipei. In 2026 his installation Unfinished Bloom was exhibited at the New Taipei City Museum of Art; the same year he launched Taiwan.md, an open-source knowledge initiative now read by over 92,000 people across more than 100 countries. His online courses on Hahow have reached over 23,000 students.
He lives and works in Taipei.