Born in 1966, Jow Jiun GONG got his Ph.D. degree in National Taiwan University, department of philosophy, 1998. The subject of his dissertation is Dialectics between Body and Imagination: Nietzsche, Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. In 2006, he published Dispositif of the Body: Merleau-Ponty and the Limits of Phenomenology which won the Young Scholar Writing Prize of Academia Sinica in 2007. In the same year, he began to teach in the Doctoral Program in Art Creation and Theory of Tainan National University of the Arts. From 2009 on, Jow Jiun GONG has organized Art Critique in Taiwan(ACT) Quarterly Magazine which won the National Publishing Prize in 2011. As a French Philosophy translator, he has translated Gaston Bachelard’s La poétique de l'espace and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s L'Oeil et l'Esprit into Chinese. And he started his curatorial work “Are We Working too Much?” in 2013, Taipei Eslite Gallery. In 2014, he co-curated with Noubuo Takamori the 4^th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition in Hongah Fine Art Museum “The Return of Ghosts” in Taipei. In 2017, he curated the exhibition“Kau-Puê, Mutual Companionship in Near Future: 2017 Soulangh International Contemporary Art Festival” that wins the 16^th Taishin arts awards in 2018. In 2018, he was the guest curator of Taiwan Biennale “Wild Rhizome: 2018 Taiwan Biennale” in National Fine Art Museum in Taichung. In 2019, he organized the curatorial team of “Yao-Chi City: Taiwan Ghost-Monster Literature and Contemporary Arts” in Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab in Taipei.