Ali Akay is professor and head of the sociology department at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul, Turkey as well as a visiting professor at Humboldt University in Berlin, and University of Paris VIII and INHA in Paris. He is curator of Sekerbank Acıkekran New Media Art Center, an art consultant at Akbank Art Centre and founder of the Toplumbilim (Sociology) journal, first published in 1992 and currently being published bi-annually. Recent publications he has contributed to include: Le Postmodernisme et apres? (2010), Unleashed: Contemporary Art from Turkey (2010) and Contemporary Art: An Akbank Art Center Anthology (2009).