Mi You is a Beijing-born curator, researcher, and faculty member at Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Her long-term research and curatorial project takes the Silk Road, under the rubric of which she has curated performative programs at Asian Culture Center Theater in Gwangju, South Korea, the inaugural Ulaanbaatar International Media Art Festival, Mongolia (2016), and with Binna Choi, she is co-initiator of a long-term research/curation project Unmapping Eurasia (2018-). Her academic interests are in performance philosophy, science and technology studies, and political philosophy. She is fellow of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and serves as director of Arthub (Shanghai) and advisor to The Institute for Provocation (Beijing).