Curator, philosopher, and aesthetic researcher, Gong Jow Jiun is the director and an associate professor at the Doctoral Program in Art Creation and Theory of Tainan National University of Arts, the editor in chief of ACT Art Critique of Taiwan, and a curator for the Mattauw Earth 2022. His main areas of research are Phenomenology and contemporary French philosophy, and he has closely followed topics such as philosophy of the body, aesthetics, Phenomenological psychology, and psychoanalysis for many years. Since 2013, Gong has curated many contemporary art exhibitions, and been interested in aesthetic propositions related to connections between local culture and history, folk art, contemporary visual art events. He won the Annual Grand Prize in The16th Taishin Arts Award for Kau-Puê, Mutual Companionship in Near Future: 2017 Soulangh International Contemporary Art Festival.