Chen Qiufan
Science fiction writer · AI and futures
Science fiction writer and futurist working where AI, narrative and technology ethics meet; author of Waste Tide and, with Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041.
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Fellows 2026 · Chen Qiufan · Xin Liu · Annette Mees · Yang Zi · Maya Kramer · Qiu Anxiong
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Xin Liu
Artist and engineer · Space and technology
Artist and engineer; former arts curator of the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative, working across sculpture, video and aerospace engineering.
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Annette Mees
Artistic director · Immersive and XR
Artistic director and creative producer leading Audience Labs; led innovation at the Royal Opera House and produced the first hyper-reality opera.
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Yang Zi
Curator and researcher
Independent curator and researcher in Beijing, formerly at UCCA, who studies how belief and philosophy shaped Chinese contemporary art.
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Maya Kramer
Artist and educator · NYU Shanghai
Artist and assistant arts professor at NYU Shanghai whose work on deep time and climate draws on geology, materials and Arctic fieldwork.
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Qiu Anxiong
Artist and animator · ECNU
Artist and professor at East China Normal University; his ink-animation trilogy New Book of Mountains and Seas is held by MoMA and the Met.
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