Mi You

Mi You is a curator, researcher, and academic staff member at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. Her long-term research and curatorial project takes the Silk Road as a figuration for deep-time, deep-space, de-centralised and nomadic imageries. Under this theme she has curated a series of performative programmes at the Asian Culture Center Theatre in Gwangju, South Korea, and the inaugural Ulaanbaatar International Media Art Festival, Mongolia (2016). Her academic interests lie in performance philosophy, science and technology studies, as well as philosophy of immanence in Eastern and Western traditions. She is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) and serves as advisor to The Institute for Provocation (Beijing).