# HsienYu Cheng (鄭先喻)

HsienYu Cheng (鄭先喻), Taiwanese artist and software developer who constructs technological systems that act upon people, environments, and other systems.

## Primary

- [Home](https://chenghsienyu.com/)
- [CV](https://chenghsienyu.com/cv/)
- [Contact](https://chenghsienyu.com/contact/) ([email](mailto:0x5a@chenghsienyu.com))
- [Full text](https://chenghsienyu.com/llms-full.txt)

## Awards

- 2014 Taipei Digital Art Award, First Prize
- 2017 Kaohsiung Art Award, New Media Art, First Prize
- 2019 Tung Chung Prize
- 2021 19th Taishin Arts Award, Visual Arts Award
- 2023 S+T+ARTS Nomination / Honorary Mention, Ars Electronica

## Recent Exhibitions

- 2023 Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria)
- 2025 Sónar+D (Barcelona, Spain)
- Solo and group exhibitions across Taiwan, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Norway, Italy, Germany, France, Austria, and Korea.

## Works by year

### 2025
- [Traced](https://chenghsienyu.com/traced/)

### 2024
- [There Will Be Works](https://chenghsienyu.com/there-will-be-works/)
- [Credit Makes You Free](https://chenghsienyu.com/credit-makes-you-free/)
- [todayisnotwhatyoulike](https://chenghsienyu.com/todayisnotwhatyoulike/)

### 2023
- [Around 7 Meters is More Fun](https://chenghsienyu.com/around-7-meters-is-more-fun/)
- [A slightly different browser](https://chenghsienyu.com/a-slightly-different-browser/)
- [% consumption of computing](https://chenghsienyu.com/consumption-of-computing/)
- [There is Another Capital Beneath the Waves](https://chenghsienyu.com/there-is-another-capital-beneath-the-waves/)

### 2022
- [Happens to Be Performing](https://chenghsienyu.com/happens-to-be-performing/)
- [It Could Be You](https://chenghsienyu.com/it-could-be-you/)
- [Annoyanony](https://chenghsienyu.com/annoyanony/)
- [Minimal Input @ C-lab](https://chenghsienyu.com/minimal-input-c-lab/)
- [don't know... what do you think?](https://chenghsienyu.com/dont-know-what-do-you-think/)

### 2021
- [Photo of ID - 證件照拍攝指南](https://chenghsienyu.com/photo-of-id/)
- [Revenge Scenes](https://chenghsienyu.com/revenge-scenes/)
- [Game of Life](https://chenghsienyu.com/game-of-life/)
- [Crystal Seeding](https://chenghsienyu.com/crystal-seeding/)

### 2020
- [discharge what you charged: room edition](https://chenghsienyu.com/discharge-what-you-charged-room-edition/)
- [invariable variation](https://chenghsienyu.com/invariable-variation/)
- [de centralize](https://chenghsienyu.com/de-centralize/)
- [We are just saying what you are ruling](https://chenghsienyu.com/we-are-just-saying-what-you-are-ruling/)
- [Taipei Robot Man 2.0: Infodemic](https://chenghsienyu.com/taipei-robot-man-2.0-infodemic/)

### 2019
- [Hijacker:{，} ](https://chenghsienyu.com/hijacker/)
- [Discharge what you charged](https://chenghsienyu.com/discharge-what-you-charged/)
- [Others - Assimilator](https://chenghsienyu.com/others-assimilator/)

### 2016
- [Sandbox](https://chenghsienyu.com/sandbox/)
- [Second Life: Habitat](https://chenghsienyu.com/second-life-habitat/)
- [Untitled: The result](https://chenghsienyu.com/untitled-the-result/)

### 2015
- [Hobo](https://chenghsienyu.com/hobo/)
- [Artist’s daily job](https://chenghsienyu.com/artists-daily-job/)
- [We all love Foucault & Deleuze](https://chenghsienyu.com/we-all-love-foucault-and-deleuze/)
- [isISis](https://chenghsienyu.com/isisis/)
- [The terminal disagrees](https://chenghsienyu.com/the-terminal-disagrees/)

### 2014
- [Rc_bOAT](https://chenghsienyu.com/rc_boat/)
- [Dish on Fish](https://chenghsienyu.com/dish-on-fish/)
- [portrait 2014](https://chenghsienyu.com/portrait-2014/)
- [MissionFailed](https://chenghsienyu.com/missionfailed/)

### 2013
- [portrait 2013 - Douglas Engelbart](https://chenghsienyu.com/portrait-2013-douglas-engelbart/)
- [Afterlife ver. 2.0](https://chenghsienyu.com/afterlife-ver-2.0/)

### 2011
- [Afterlife](https://chenghsienyu.com/afterlife/)
- [portrait 2011](https://chenghsienyu.com/portrait-2011/)

### 2009
- [heartcoke](https://chenghsienyu.com/heartcoke/)

## Solo exhibitions

- [[.user            ]](https://chenghsienyu.com/user/)
- [% consumption of computing](https://chenghsienyu.com/consumption-of-computing/)
- [Eyes, Ears, Nose, Tongues...those parts](https://chenghsienyu.com/eyesearsnose-tonguesthose-parts/)
- [Revenge Scenes](https://chenghsienyu.com/revenge-scenes/)
- [Injector after Null](https://chenghsienyu.com/injector-after-null/)
- [Assimilator](https://chenghsienyu.com/assimilator/)
- [Injector before Null - Sandbox](https://chenghsienyu.com/injector-before-null-sandbox/)
- [Second Life: Habitat](https://chenghsienyu.com/second-life-habitat/)
- [1ed6318fc5481dda3ded... - 2016](https://chenghsienyu.com/1ed6318fc5481dda3ded-2016/)
- [Collector - 收集者](https://chenghsienyu.com/collector/)

## Review & News

### 2024
- [許家維、張碩尹、鄭先喻攜手山口媒體藝術中心共同創作「浪濤之下亦有皇都」 以當代影像追溯台日歷史與記憶](https://artemperor.tw/focus/5979)
- [It Could Be You, digital identities close to you](https://neural.it/2024/04/it-could-be-you-digital-identities-close-to-you/)

### 2023
- [在機器與程式裡，看見人的小毛病──專訪鄭先喻](https://www.biosmonthly.com/article/11389)

### 2022
- [VOP Issue 31：技術邏輯 Technologic](https://vopmagazine.com/vop031/)

### 2021
- [鄭先喻個展「injector after Null」：It's the song, not the singer](https://mag.ncafroc.org.tw/article_detail.html?id=297ef72279c1c94e0179f8b5fbf20000)
- [《證件照拍攝指南》中的身份與主體生成問題](https://artouch.com/views/content-41632.html)
- [Transitions, Articulated and Experienced](https://nomanisanis.land/null-exhibition-review/)

### 2020
- [鄭先喻《來生 Afterlife Ver. 1.0》到《台北機電人 2.0：訊息瘟疫》——殺死越多，來生越多](https://www.biosmonthly.com/article/10559)
- [不再超現實的夢境：鄭先喻《Hijacker:｛，｝》中的現實製造問題](https://www.hongfoundation.org.tw/news-article-item/tung-chung-prize-item-review-assimilator-theaffairs-wang-po-wei)
- [To Think and Imagine in the Digital Basho: Review on Cheng Hsien-Yu’s ASSIMILATOR 在數位場所裡觸發思想：評鄭先喻的《同化者》](https://www.heath.tw/nml-article/to-think-and-imagine-in-the-digital-basho-review-on-cheng-hsien-yus-assimilator/)
- [When is your last time you put the phone down? ｛Assimilator｝,solo exhibition by Hsien-Yu CHENG.](https://web.archive.org/web/20231002155452/https://theartpressasia.com/2020/06/22/when-is-your-last-time-you-put-the-phone-down-%EF%BD%9Bassimilator%EF%BD%9Dsolo-exhibition-by-hsien-yu-cheng/)
- [第二屆銅鐘藝術賞發表 鄭先喻｛同化者｝看見科技與人性的競合](https://artemperor.tw/focus/3352)
- [「零延滯」時代下的科技焦慮――關於鄭先喻的「同化者」](https://mag.clab.org.tw/clabo-article/assimilator/)

### 2018
- [Something/Nothing To Write About: Cheng HsienYu’s Solo Exhibition](https://newbloommag.net/2018/09/08/cheng-hsienyu-solo-exhibition/)
- [The Question of Institutional Split: Review on Cheng Hsien-yu’s “Sandbox”](https://www.heath.tw/nml-article/thequestionofinstitutionalsplitreviewonchenghsien-yussandbox/)

### 2017
- [藝術，不存之地　忠泰美術館當代藝術展](https://artouch.com/views/content-1116.html)

### undated
- [生命中不能寫實之輕：鄭先喻《Afterlife Ver.2.0－生命的來來去去》中的抽象意識](https://web.archive.org/web/20241113211201/https://issuu.com/vtartsalon/docs/very_view_09)

## Plain Markdown for every post

- [1ed6318fc5481dda3ded... - 2016](https://chenghsienyu.com/1ed6318fc5481dda3ded-2016.md)
- [A slightly different browser](https://chenghsienyu.com/a-slightly-different-browser.md)
- [Afterlife](https://chenghsienyu.com/afterlife.md)
- [Afterlife ver. 2.0](https://chenghsienyu.com/afterlife-ver-2.0.md)
- [Annoyanony](https://chenghsienyu.com/annoyanony.md)
- [Around 7 Meters is More Fun](https://chenghsienyu.com/around-7-meters-is-more-fun.md)
- [Artist’s daily job](https://chenghsienyu.com/artists-daily-job.md)
- [Assimilator](https://chenghsienyu.com/assimilator.md)
- [Collector - 收集者](https://chenghsienyu.com/collector.md)
- [% consumption of computing](https://chenghsienyu.com/consumption-of-computing.md)
- [Contact](https://chenghsienyu.com/contact.md)
- [Credit Makes You Free](https://chenghsienyu.com/credit-makes-you-free.md)
- [Crystal Seeding](https://chenghsienyu.com/crystal-seeding.md)
- [CV](https://chenghsienyu.com/cv.md)
- [de centralize](https://chenghsienyu.com/de-centralize.md)
- [Discharge what you charged](https://chenghsienyu.com/discharge-what-you-charged.md)
- [discharge what you charged: room edition](https://chenghsienyu.com/discharge-what-you-charged-room-edition.md)
- [Dish on Fish](https://chenghsienyu.com/dish-on-fish.md)
- [don't know... what do you think?](https://chenghsienyu.com/dont-know-what-do-you-think.md)
- [Eyes, Ears, Nose, Tongues...those parts](https://chenghsienyu.com/eyesearsnose-tonguesthose-parts.md)
- [Game of Life](https://chenghsienyu.com/game-of-life.md)
- [Happens to Be Performing](https://chenghsienyu.com/happens-to-be-performing.md)
- [heartcoke](https://chenghsienyu.com/heartcoke.md)
- [Hijacker:{，} ](https://chenghsienyu.com/hijacker.md)
- [Hobo](https://chenghsienyu.com/hobo.md)
- [Home](https://chenghsienyu.com/home.md)
- [Injector after Null](https://chenghsienyu.com/injector-after-null.md)
- [Injector before Null - Sandbox](https://chenghsienyu.com/injector-before-null-sandbox.md)
- [invariable variation](https://chenghsienyu.com/invariable-variation.md)
- [isISis](https://chenghsienyu.com/isisis.md)
- [It Could Be You](https://chenghsienyu.com/it-could-be-you.md)
- [Minimal Input @ C-lab](https://chenghsienyu.com/minimal-input-c-lab.md)
- [MissionFailed](https://chenghsienyu.com/missionfailed.md)
- [Others - Assimilator](https://chenghsienyu.com/others-assimilator.md)
- [Photo of ID - 證件照拍攝指南](https://chenghsienyu.com/photo-of-id.md)
- [portrait 2011](https://chenghsienyu.com/portrait-2011.md)
- [portrait 2013 - Douglas Engelbart](https://chenghsienyu.com/portrait-2013-douglas-engelbart.md)
- [portrait 2014](https://chenghsienyu.com/portrait-2014.md)
- [Rc_bOAT](https://chenghsienyu.com/rc_boat.md)
- [Revenge Scenes](https://chenghsienyu.com/revenge-scenes.md)
- [Sandbox](https://chenghsienyu.com/sandbox.md)
- [Second Life: Habitat](https://chenghsienyu.com/second-life-habitat.md)
- [Taipei Robot Man 2.0: Infodemic](https://chenghsienyu.com/taipei-robot-man-2.0-infodemic.md)
- [The terminal disagrees](https://chenghsienyu.com/the-terminal-disagrees.md)
- [There is Another Capital Beneath the Waves](https://chenghsienyu.com/there-is-another-capital-beneath-the-waves.md)
- [There Will Be Works](https://chenghsienyu.com/there-will-be-works.md)
- [todayisnotwhatyoulike](https://chenghsienyu.com/todayisnotwhatyoulike.md)
- [Traced](https://chenghsienyu.com/traced.md)
- [Untitled: The result](https://chenghsienyu.com/untitled-the-result.md)
- [[.user            ]](https://chenghsienyu.com/user.md)
- [We all love Foucault & Deleuze](https://chenghsienyu.com/we-all-love-foucault-and-deleuze.md)
- [We are just saying what you are ruling](https://chenghsienyu.com/we-are-just-saying-what-you-are-ruling.md)

## 中文

鄭先喻（1984 年生於台灣高雄，現居住、工作於台北）是藝術家與軟體開發者，他的創作探討科技系統如何作用於人及其所處的環境。

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