Mehmet Şiray received his PhD in Philosophy from Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany. His research interests include Aesthetics, Philosophy of Art, Contemporary Philosophy, Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Performance and Image studies. He has worked as an assistant and lecturer at Bilkent, Kadir Has, Işık, Üsküdar, Bilgi and Johannes Gutenberg Mainz Universities. He is the author of the book titled "Performance and Performativity" published by PeterLang in 2009. He completed his postdoctoral research titled as "Contemplating Image Today: The Critical Reading of Jacques Rancière's, Georges Didi-Huberman and W.J.T. Mitchell's Ideas on Image" in the "Critical Thinking" program as a visiting professor at Freie Universität Berlin in 2019. He is currently working as a full-time faculty member in philosophy department at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and part-time lecturer in Cultural Studies Department at Bilgi University.

Burak Basmacioglu, was born in 1972, in Ankara, Turkey. After graduating from Hacettepe University State Conservatory he was accepted as a lecturer by Anadolu University State Conservatory. He earned master's and doctoral degrees in piano from this institute, then completed harpsichord and early music studies in the specialization program at Strasbourg Conservatory, France. Burak Basmacioglu has been working as a professor at Anadolu University State Conservatory, where he teaches harpsichord, organ, basso continuo, sight reading and accompaniment, since 1992.