Iris Long (irislong.xyz) is a writer and independent curator with a research focus on how art responses to data and tech-environment.She is currently studying at the Advanced Practices PhD Program at Goldsmiths, London. Her recent work has been focused on the psycho-geography of technologies and China’s techno-infrastructures.

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. She has curated exhibitions around art and technology, such as “Lying Sophia and Mocking Alexa”(sophialexa.com),”Blue Cables in Venetian Watercourse”(PSA Emerging Curator’s Program) and the third Today Art Museum “Future of Today”. She has curated solo exhibitions for Liu Xin, Lauren Lee McCarthy and so on. She was also the art jury of ISEA 2019 and SIGGRAPH ASIA 2020. In 2021, she initialized “Port: Under the Cloud”, a long-term research and curatorial project on the infrastructures of science and technology in China.

Iris’s research has been presented in “Art and Artificial Intelligence”(Open Conference, ZKM), “Art Machines: International Symposium on Computational Media Art (ISCMA)”(Hong Kong), Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts (London), ISEA and so on. She has also worked with tech companies such as Microsoft, SenseTime and LandSpace.

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