Iris Long

Iris Long is a writer and independent curator. She currently works as a researcher on art, science and technology at Central Academy of Fine Arts (China), with a research focus on how art responses to the current global reality of ubiquitous computing and big data. She lectures on data art and artificial intelligence at CAFA. At CAFA she also co-organizes EAST- The International Conference on Education, Art, Science and Technology.

She collaborated with Cedar Zhou since 2014, and their work has been exhibited internationally in venues including Chronus Art Center(Shanghai), Power Station of Art (Shanghai), V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media(Rotterdam), ISEA(Hong Kong) and so on. Her work has been shortlisted in Prix Cube Art Prize, and received an honorable mention in ifva, Hong Kong.

She was shortlisted by the first M21-IAAC Award (International Awards for Art Criticism). Her translation work, Rethinking Curating: Art after New Media, received nomination from AAC Art China awards in 2016. In 2018, she was the recipient of Hyundai Blue Prize for curators and curated “Lying Sophia and Mocking Alexa”. She co-curated the opening show of UN Art Center, “The Kind Stranger” (2019) and is the curator of The Third Session of “Future of Today”: Deja Vu (Today Art Museum, Beijing). She is also the art jury of ISEA 2019 in Korea.

Iris has a master degree of Critical Writing in Art and Design from the Royal College of Art, UK and a bachelor degree of Journalism and Communication from Tsinghua University, China.