Mehmet Şiray received his BA in Philosophy from METU, MA from Bilkent University and PhD from Johannes Gutenberg University. His research interests include aesthetics, philosophy of art, contemporary philosophy, structuralism, post-structuralism, film and performance studies. He has worked as an assistant and part-time lecturer at Bilgi, Bilkent, Kadir Has, Işık, Üsküdar, Artuklu and Johannes Gutenberg Mainz Universities. In the 2018-2019 academic year, he completed his postdoctoral research titled “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. His book Performance and Performativity was published by Peter Lang in 2009. He is a faculty member at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Department of Philosophy.