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Pavel Sedlák is a curator and art critic focusing on the interaction of arts, sciences and technologies. Acting on behalf of the International Centre for Art and New Technologies in Prague (CIANT) he has initiated a number of artistic, cultural and research projects some of which were awarded grants of the European Union. He worked at the Centre for Science, Technology, Society Studies of the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Recently, he was a member of the Prague Mayor's committee on the city cultural strategy, a jury member of the CYNETart_06 festival held in Dresden, and an invited speaker at the 40th congress of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). In 2006 he co-founded the Circle of Curators & Critics (C2C) which runs a Prague-based gallery open to curatorial projects and which organises art/science festival called TransGenesis.