Mi You is a professor of art and economies at the University of Kassel. Her academic interests are in the social value of art, new and historical materialism, as well as the history, political theory, and philosophy of Eurasia. She works with the Silk Road as a figuration for re-imagining networks, and has curated exhibitions and programs at Asian Culture Center in Gwangju, South Korea, Ulaanbaatar International Media Art Festival, Mongolia (2016), Zarya CCA, Vladivostok (2018), and the research/curatorial platform Unmapping Eurasia (2018-) with Binna Choi. Her recent exhibitions focus on socializing technologies and “actionable speculations”, such as Sci-(no)-Fi at the Academy of the Arts of the World, Cologne (2019) and Lonely Vectors at Singapore Art Museum (2022). She was one of the curators of the 13th Shanghai Biennale (2020-2021) and also serves as chair of the committee on Media Arts and Technology for the transnational NGO Common Action Forum.