Louisa Avgita
Louisa Avgita is Assistant Professor of Art History at the School of Visual and Applied Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research focuses on the policies of curating and representation in contemporary art, on artistic labour and on the conceptualisation of history and geography in the discourse of contemporary art. She has participated in many international conferences and has organised workshops in Greece and the UK, as well as has curated exhibitions and events of contemporary art. She recently participated in the curatorial team of the 7th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art: Stasis (Oct. 2019-Feb. 2020). Her publications include articles in collective volumes, academic journals and conference proceedings, and she has edited, among others, the collective volume Art, Labour, Market (2019) together with Areti Adamopoulou.
 
Alexandros Kioupkiolis
Alexandros Kioupkiolis studied Greek literature (classics) at the University of Athens, Faculty of Philosophy, and political theory at the University of Essex (MA in Political Theory) and the University of Oxford (DPhil). He has taught political theory at the University of Oxford and the University of Cyprus. In 2009 he was elected lecturer at the School of Political Sciences of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and he now serves as assistant professor. His research interests focus on modern philosophies of freedom, contemporary philosophies of justice, theories of democracy, analyses and critiques of power. Recent publications include: The Post‐political Multitude in the Streets of Athens. Two Theses on Radical Democracy (Synchrona Themata, 2008), Post‐critical Liberalism and Agonistic Freedom (Contemporary Political Theory, 2008), Keeping it Open: Ontology, Ethics, Knowledge and Radical Democracy (Philosophy and Social Criticism, 2009), Three Paradigms of Modern Freedom (Εuropean Journal of Political Theory, 2009). Freedom After the Critique of Foundations: Marx, Liberalism and Agonistic Autonomy (Palgrave-Macmillan, Hampshire 2012), The commons of liberty” (Exarchia, Athens 2014). He has also co-edited: Radical Democracy and Collective Movements Today. The Biopolitics of the Multitude Versus the Hegemony of the People (Ashgate, 2014, Turkish translation: Koç University Press, 2016), Discourse theory: Creative applications (Gutenberg, Athens 2015).
 
Thodoris Papadimitriou
Theo Papadimitriou was born in Thessaloniki in 1978. He is a graduate of the Department of Music Studies of the School of Fine Arts of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and holds a Master of Music (MMus) in Music Performance – Conducting from the University of Hull, UK (class of Dr Lee Tsang).  He was awarded a diploma in Orchestra Conducting (State Conservatory of Thessaloniki, class of Vladimiros Symeonides), a diploma in Cello (Music College conservatory, class of Michalis Liatsos) and a degree in Piano (Filippos Nakas conservatory, class of Thanassis Bililis). He also holds degrees in Fugue (Filippos Nakas conservatory, class of Evangelia Kikou), in Counterpoint (Filippos Nakas conservatory, class of Evangelia Kikou) and in Harmony (Music College conservatory, class of Ioannis Baroutas). He has attended master classes in orchestra conducting with Dominique Rouits, Manuel Hernández-Silva and Michael Dittrich, and has conducted symphonic concerts in Greece and United Kingdom.
 
Theo Papadimitriou has composed original music for the cinema, for documentaries and for advertisements. He has participated in collective composing for films with Christos Goussios and with the ensemble The Prefabricated Quartet.  He has also collaborated with The Prefabricated Quartet in live accompaniment of silent films with original music of their own. He has composed original music for many theatrical plays and has performed live as a stage musician for some of them. He also composes regularly symphonic works of educational purposes for children’s and youth orchestras.
 
Theo Papadimitriou is the regular conductor of MOYSA, the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Thessaloniki Concert Hall, and he has conducted the orchestra in many concerts, shows and recordings of film music. He is the conductor of the orchestras of New Conservatory of Thessaloniki and has also taken over the direction of the Choir of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki.
 
As a cellist Theo Papadimitriou has appeared in numerous concerts, performances and shows. In his discography one finds the two records of The Prefabricated Quartet, in which he participated not only as a cellist but also as a co-composer. Additionally, he has many guest appearances in recordings of other composers and music ensembles.
 
Savvas Patsalidis
Savas Patsalidis, Professor Emeritus of theatre and performance history and theory (Aristotle University, Thessaloniki). Professor at the Drama School of the National Theatre of Northern Greece.  He is the author of fourteen books on theatre and performance criticism/theory and co-editor of another fourteen. His two-volume study, Theatre, Society, Nation (2010), was awarded first prize forbest theatre study of the year. His latest book-length study Theatre & Theory II: About Topoi, Utopias and Heterotopias was published in 2019 by University Studio Press. In addition to his academic activities, he writes theatre reviews for a number of ejournals. He is currently the president of the Hellenic Association of Theatre and Performing Arts Critics, member of the curators’ team of Forest Festival (organized by the National Theatre of Northern Greece) and the editor-in-chief of Critical Stages/Scènes critiques, the journal of the International Association of Theatre Critics.
 
Maria Ristani
Dr. Maria Ristani is a Research and Teaching Fellow at the Department of English Literature (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), where she teaches contemporary Anglophone drama and performance art. Since her doctoral research on the intrinsic musicality of Samuel Beckett’s ‘text-scores’ (completed in 2013), she has shared an active interest in the ways modern Anglophone theatre draws on and interacts with sound art and acoustics, researching, in particular, the fields of audio-based theatre, podcast drama and sound walk performances. Part of her work has been presented at conferences in Greece and abroad, and published in international journals and volumes.