①Wu Chi-Yu Workshop “Southern Universe EXPO: The Proposal”

Step into the historical South: a world both familiar and strange, suspended in a parallel time. World Expositions have long celebrated visions of prosperity and imagined futures. Yet behind these radiant displays lies a settler-colonial past that remains unresolved.
Inspired by the 1935 Taiwan Exposition, a grand event where colonial governance and modern spectacle converged, this game invites players to navigate between acts of settlement and exhibition-making. To fund your proposal, you’ll extract resources and accumulate your own “settler experiences.” These are not just paths to victory. They become the core material of your final proposal.
How will you choose to interpret this history?

*This project originates from a collaborative research between Wu Chi-Yu and Rikey Tenn, with Wu Chi-Yu leading the game design

②Wu Chi-Yu Talk Event “The Reincarnation of the Gaze: From Camphor to Data”

Wu Chi-Yu’s recent works explore camphor, a plant-derived extract that played an important role in the history of modernization. Originally sourced from East Asia, camphor was used as a plasticizer in celluloid film. It was not only part of early image-making technologies, but also a material that connects ecological history and collective memory.
This talk introduces a series of Wu’s moving image projects and research, developed through his long-term engagement with camphor. It further examines how the settler gaze, shaped through historical visual archives and colonial expositions, continues to resurface through shifting media forms. These visual regimes persist and evolve within contemporary data-driven ways of seeing, structured by the logic of datasets and algorithmic systems.

Wu Chi-Yu

Based in Taipei, Wu Chi-Yu is a multimedia artist whose works include film, video installation, and photography. He delves into the lost and unestablished links among species, environment, and the technology that constructs human civilization, exploring the complex historical geography of Asia and the interdependence of various beings through multiple narratives. His works have been exhibited and screened at Times Art Museum, Guangzhou (2021); MoCA, Taipei (2020); 2018 Shanghai Biennale; 2016 Taipei Biennial; Beijing International Short Film Festival (2017) and was a resident artist at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (2014-2015). He is a member of the Taiwanese artist collective Fuxinghen Studio, also the co-founder of the project Pailang Museum, which focuses on the decolonization study of moving images.
https://www.wuchiyu.com/

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