Iris Long is a writer and independent curator. She received her BA from Tsinghua University, MA in Critical Writing in Art & Design from the Royal College of Art, and is studying at the Advanced Practices PhD Program at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is also a 2022–2023 Berggruen Fellow. She has curated exhibitions around art, science and technology, such as “Lying Sophia and Mocking Alexa” (Hyundai Blue Prize, Beijing, 2019), “Blue Cables in Venetian Watercourse” (Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2021), the third Today Art Museum Biennial “Future of Today” (2019), the art&tech sector of the inaugural Beijing Art Biennial “Earth Heat Flow: the Visitor Who Returns to Solar Time” (2023). She has curated the first solo exhibitions in China for artists Xin Liu (“The Ground is Falling,” Aranya Art Center, 2022) and Lauren Lee McCarthy (“You Can Say: ‘Reset the Room.’” Brownie Project, 2020). She has also curated for the Chinese National Astronomy magazine its inaugural exhibition on art and science (Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, 2023). In 2021, she launched “Port: Under the Cloud” (temporalstack.com), a long-term research and curatorial project on the infrastructures of science and technology in China.

Iris’s research has been presented at “Art and Artificial Intelligence” (Open Conference, ZKM), “Art Machines: International Symposium on Computational Media Art”(City University of Hong Kong), and ISEA, among others. She served on art jury of ISEA (2019) and SIGGRAPH ASIA (2020/22/23).