Michal Sedik


Researcher and teacher at Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica. He holds a PhD. in systematic philosophy from the Institute ofPhilosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. In his research, hedeals with problems of the philosophy of art such as the ontology of the work ofart, the issue of interpretation and representation in art, or the problem ofart as a research. He is the author, co-author or editor of several books andvolumes (Filozofia umenia. Analytická tradícia (2014), Podoby interpetácie(2016), Problém reprezentácie (2023)) and has published his research in manyjournals (Filozofia, Organon F, Profil súčasného výtvarného umenia, ARS, ESPES,...). He occasionally curates visual art exhibitions (Rastislav Podoba, Miroslav Brooš, ...). He tries to understand what particular and contextuallydependent knowledge of art and universal knowledge of science could have incommon.